The house the gggggrand parents built
21 июля 2019 г., Хорватия ⋅ ⛅ 26 °C
The GPS offered to take me down Ulica Vladimira Gortana to no 11 where the Leva house was to be found. As you can see, I took one look and decided to walk.
The house was only 50m or so from theЧитать далее
Old and new
21 июля 2019 г., Хорватия ⋅ ⛅ 27 °C
Tony HammondInteresting info too that the Leva family owned large ocean-going sailing ships. The harbour has scrubbed up nicely....
Cape Leva
21 июля 2019 г., Хорватия ⋅ ⛅ 26 °C
They even buried the old folk with a good view of the sea
Tony HammondFascinating but a pity you couldn't find an official to say those immortal words "Don't you know who I am?" considering you are part of the Leva family....
Between 2 islands
22 июля 2019 г., Хорватия ⋅ ⛅ 30 °C
The little town of Osor where the bridge linking the 2 parts of Losinj lies, is really quite charming and usually bypassed.
The citizens were holding a music festival week whilst I was there and theЧитать далее
Tony HammondWhen it came to listening to opera in Croat you must have found yourself between a rock and a hard place....
Dummy spit
25 июля 2019 г., Хорватия ⋅ ⛅ 28 °C
No Mr. HereWeGo, I am not driving down that road.
NRA nightmare
25 июля 2019 г., Словения ⋅ ⛅ 23 °C
In some countries you do not have the right to bear arms.
Found in a Slovenian trunk
25 июля 2019 г., Словения ⋅ ⛅ 23 °C
I know - its a bit of an old saw.
Check out the two man chainsaw and the gate.
The old castle was actually built as a forestry protection station rather than as a fort.
Pivka Barracks
26 июля 2019 г., Словения ⋅ ⛅ 27 °C
were built by the Italian army but rose to fame on the so-called 'Day Before'. On 26 June 1991 the first tanks of the Yugoslav People's Army left from here to suppress the independence of Slovenia,Читать далее
Wrongly Racked
1 августа 2019 г., Словения ⋅ ⛅ 28 °C
Initially I thought this paperwork had been filed in the wrong part of the supermarket but after much careful anal ysis I determined that this was not some sort of rap mag as the header explainedЧитать далее
Breginj
3 августа 2019 г., Словения ⋅ ⛅ 23 °C
The mother of my host has a small wooden house - technically a food drying shed to avoid building permissions - in the mountains at the head of the Soca valley. We spent a couple of weekends up thereЧитать далее
Stohlen moments
3 августа 2019 г., Словения ⋅ ⛅ 16 °C
Stohl mountain (1668m) rises from Breginj and I popped up to see the view one day. The ascent was by a 45 degree slope from the valley to the summit as you can see. No trick photography.
The viewsЧитать далее
Which of course was just down the road from where we were (altopiano del Montasio) for ferrata Leva.
Trad folk
6 августа 2019 г., Словения ⋅ ⛅ 27 °C
Here at Grad Kromberg concerts are held periodically. Since Manca and Sebastian, my hosts, had performed there quite often, they knew exactly where we could sit in the adjoining vinyard to hear andЧитать далее
A bridge too far fetched
10 августа 2019 г., Словения ⋅ ⛅ 30 °C
Had to include this rather uninteresting bridge just outside Gorizia as it claims to be the longest stone arch in the world. It was built by the Italians after the first WW.
No Soca fields
11 августа 2019 г., Словения ⋅ ⛅ 28 °C
The town is Kanal ob Soci as it lies on the Soca river and Slovenian names change their endings according to unfathomable rules.
Slap Kosjok
12 августа 2019 г., Словения ⋅ ⛅ 30 °C
This waterfall is a fine tourist trap above Kobarid, flowing down to join the Soca River.
Straw logs
15 августа 2019 г., Словения ⋅ ⛅ 24 °C
Back in Slovenia again for another workaway 20 minutes South of Gorizia. Here Manca and Sebastian and little Luca are making a straw bale house with the help of a regular succession of workawayers. InЧитать далее
Out to lunch
23 августа 2019 г., Италия ⋅ ⛅ 26 °C
After leaving the straw house, I popped in to see Cividale. Some say that it was founded by Julius Caesar as "Forum Julii", but archaeologists have found Venetian and Celtic remains from 6 BCE. ItЧитать далее
Tony HammondGlad you upped the steaks for lunch but please can you drop the E (which stands for error) from BCE?
Big C
24 августа 2019 г., Италия ⋅ ⛅ 26 °C
Too short a visit to Vanessa at Marina di Pietrasanta, where the family were spending August.
The day before this beach was jam-packed, but it is amazing what a cloud can do.
Can you spot VanesssaЧитать далее
Tony HammondYes I see Vanessa but there are far too many 'tent stations' for my liking. Still it's good to know that you were well oiled as usual....
I take a pass
26 августа 2019 г., Италия ⋅ ☀️ 17 °C
Driving to my next workaway in Burgundy I crossed into France by the Little Saint Bernard Pass.
Owing to the poor roads in Italy I took the Autostrada all the way to Aosta which set me back the priceЧитать далее
Tony HammondLovely view but they are obviously cashing in with the 10% surcharge - very inadVISAble....
Little C
1 сентября 2019 г., Франция ⋅ ⛅ 22 °C
The 1930s Dutch sailing barge"Goede Verwachting", [Great Expectations,Arnhem, 45t, 21m,]now alas without her wardrobe and sailing tackle and relying on a Daf 595 truck engine for mobility,has been theЧитать далее
Bottom of the world
2 сентября 2019 г., Франция ⋅ ⛅ 23 °C
Spotting a place on the map called "Le Bout du Monde" a dozen km or so from Chagny where the barge was moored, I could not resist visiting it. This is what Alexandre Dumas wrote about it:
"We descendЧитать далее
Rooting around
5 сентября 2019 г., Франция ⋅ ⛅ 19 °C
Once we went to the truffle farm where we learned about the 4 types cultivated locally befor Jack, the over excited truffle hound, dug up some previously hidden truffles to demonstrate the truffleЧитать далее
Beaune of contention
6 сентября 2019 г., Франция ⋅ ⛅ 20 °C
Baune, a classic medievil market town, lies a dozen km away. There was a market in the streets which, as far as I could tell, had the same travelling stalls as Chagny on Sunday. The local artisanalЧитать далее
Rolin stones
6 сентября 2019 г., Франция ⋅ ⛅ 21 °C
Nicolas Rolin made himself very rich as Chancellor of the Exchequer to Duke Philip the Good.
His manor wasn't in too good a shape after the Hundred Years War and the people of Beaune were starving andЧитать далее
Totally sick art
6 сентября 2019 г., Франция ⋅ ⛅ 21 °C
The painting of "The last Judgement" by Rogier van der Weyden is the most famous piece held in the Hospice, but I like the stained glass scene of the working hospital more.
Nicolas Rolin and GuigoneЧитать далее
Many Italian families & there are still about 11,000 left ( after natural depletion) have not yet received any compensation. The Italian state owes Italian citizens between €2.4 & 4.2 billion -since 1947. Basically Italy paid its war debts with jugoslavia using those properties etc which belonged to Italian citizens! Van
Tony HammondAnd how ironic that they are now mainly occupied by Germans!