A relaxing day. Today we went to visit our Dutch friends at their rental villa inland from Benidorm, already spoken about, albeit retrospectively, in my previous post. We had instructions, the critical part of which told us to turn left…
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Meat Market
Braving Benidorm for our very first time just to call in to the humongous Carrefour hipermarché there yesterday, we had lashed out on a shoulder of cabrito [kid goat] and a supposedly Wagyu steak. We tried the cabrito yesterday and…
Posted in 2016-09 Spain
A Kind of Madness
Our next visit to Spain after the May 2016 trip was originally intended to be October 2016, for the accursed residents committee AGM. Unbounded joy! Recently, however, we discovered that some long lost Dutch friends had rented a villa not…
Posted in 2016-09 Spain
Pag Island
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…
Posted in 2016 Slovenia-Croatia
Paklenica National Park
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.…
Posted in 2016 Slovenia-Croatia
Plitvice Lakes
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…
Posted in 2016 Slovenia-Croatia
Bearing Up
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…
Posted in 2016 Slovenia-Croatia
A Change of Plan
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…
Posted in 2016 Slovenia-Croatia
Mount Mangart
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…
Posted in 2016 Slovenia-Croatia
Lake Bohinj
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…
Posted in 2016 Slovenia-Croatia
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