The last day of our trip, before the lengthy drag back to Ljubljana airport for our flight home tomorrow, was to be spent on Pag Island, a long, narrow spit of land off the Croatian coast. We piled into the…

There’s that warning phrase again, National Park. Paklenica National Park covers the area of torrent flows of Velika Paklenica and Mala Paklenica, and their distinctive canyons carved vertically into the south slopes of Velebit Mountains and the broader surrounding area.…

Today we headed out of Slovenia and into Croatia for the first time.Our first stop was to be Plitvice Lakes, “declared a National Park in 1949” [the blurb said]. A new Country is always quite exciting. This really did feel…

I was seriously disappointed with our morning. We were heading for the Postojna cave, which is one of very few homes to Olms (Proteus anguinus), fully aquatic, blind, pink, cave salamanders existing only on the Dalmatian coast. Their colour leads…

Today we were supposed to be heading into some high ground again but our guide, MIlan, had been keeping his weather-eye on the forecast – well, that’s a good place for it – and suggested a change of plan. The…

Day 3 on the itinerary [day 2 of doing anything wildlife oriented] and we were off to the mountains. To be precise, we were off to Mount Mangart in the Julian Alps. Our route was an interesting one since it…

Yesterday we had an excellently timed flight (12:55 PM take off) from Stansted lasting about two hours to Ljubljana. A couple of firsts: first flight for me from Stansted and certainly my first time in Slovenia. The timing made our…