Visit to the Wachau Valley Great! We are back on the road again. Or to be precise, the river. The Oldies have finally packed up the caravan and headed to a campsite directly on the Danube. We are staying in Stein which is not the most beautiful of names but it is certainly a beautiful place. I can’t believe the view from the campsite. For once, my eyes are dragged away from the water, up to the stunning Göttweig Abbey…
Outing to Muggia and Trieste After a particularly hearty campsite dinner one evening, the Oldies recognised – and actually acted on – the need to go for a walk to shake down the meal. And where do you usually go for a digestive stroll? To the next country, of course! Not that that was the intention, but as they climbed the steep path up the hill behind Ankaran, the Dynamic Duo found themselves exchanging rather puffed Dober dan!s with the…
Piran Salt Flats Even for a bird brain like me, it didn’t take long to figure out why Portorož is such a popular tourist resort. It has plenty of long and flat stretches of coastline, a rarity in Slovenia. No wonder the seafront is full of bars, restaurants – and beaches of course. It was by far one of the busiest spots we’d visited. Happily, we were still able to stroll along without having to fight our way through the…
Outing to Saint Naum Monastery, North Macedonia Can a seagull not get a bit of peace at all? Here we are on a small, quiet campsite by the lake, well outside the city of Pogradec. On the nearby potholed dirt track they laughingly call a road there‘s hardly any traffic. What traffic there is crawls by so slowly that it barely registers on the decibel scale. But what do I have to put up with? Bloody peacocks of all things,…
Piestany Spa, Slovakia The spas in Hungary and the Czech Republic went down a treat with the Oldies, so it is no surprise that our first stop in Slovakia is a spa town. Piestany Spa is the oldest and best-known spa in the country. Humans have lived here since the early Stone Age, would you believe! Due to the thermal springs, which of course didn’t freeze in winter, there was apparently no shortage of game in the area. Making it…