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.
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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.
NRA nightmare
25 июля 2019 г., Словения ⋅ ⛅ 23 °C
In some countries you do not have the right to bear arms.
Dummy spit
25 июля 2019 г., Хорватия ⋅ ⛅ 28 °C
No Mr. HereWeGo, I am not driving down that road.
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
Cape Leva
21 июля 2019 г., Хорватия ⋅ ⛅ 26 °C
They even buried the old folk with a good view of the sea
Old and new
21 июля 2019 г., Хорватия ⋅ ⛅ 27 °C
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
Big lozenge
21 июля 2019 г., Хорватия ⋅ ⛅ 24 °C
The Leva family were one of the principal families in Veli Losinj and this is the inner harbour which is now flanked by one restaurant after another. Its one of the prettiest harbours I've seen on theЧитать далее
Lozenge for the soul
21 июля 2019 г., Хорватия ⋅ ⛅ 24 °C
Took the 20 minute ferry from Brestova to Porozina on the island of Losinj in order to visit the ancestral (maternal) homelands.
There are two islands, but the 10m gap between them has long beenЧитать далее
Crowd funding nature
18 июля 2019 г., Хорватия ⋅ ⛅ 24 °C
I counted about 20 buses and estimated about 200 cars on the day I visited the Plitvicka National Park. At 40 Euros admission and another 20 or so for parking, I had to do a little work to enjoy theЧитать далее
Knights of Knin
17 июля 2019 г., Хорватия ⋅ ⛅ 29 °C
Haven't seen a decent castle for at least 20 km so here is one. Settled since the Neolithic times, its first mention as a city was in Strabon's Geography in the 7th C Before the Common Era. And theЧитать далее
Phoenix in Kijevo
17 июля 2019 г., Хорватия ⋅ ⛅ 29 °C
Spotted the towers and thought maybe it was from the series "Twin Peaks".
But no, this time no Hollywood connection. The Crkva SV Mihovila was first built at the beginning of the 13thC and is now inЧитать далее
Every hill has one
17 июля 2019 г., Хорватия ⋅ ⛅ 29 °C
Walked around Sinj.
Feeling the squeeze
17 июля 2019 г., Хорватия ⋅ ☀️ 26 °C
Some roads are a little narrow.
Best pub so far!
Arboretum Trsteno
16 июля 2019 г., Хорватия ⋅ ⛅ 26 °C
Trsteno is a charming little harbour good for an afternoon swim; but the house is empty and falling down. Probably the owners can't afford fixing it and want too much money to sell it.
In 1494 one ofЧитать далее
Dub
16 июля 2019 г., Хорватия ⋅ ☁️ 25 °C
How did I avoid the masses?
Game of marketing
16 июля 2019 г., Хорватия ⋅ ☁️ 26 °C
Separated from the main part of Croatia by a tiny Bosnian finger pointing to the Adriatic, the area around Dubrovnik seems just like Montenegro to me. I felt obliged to brave the hordes of sightseersЧитать далее
Risan from the sea
13 июля 2019 г., Черногория ⋅ ⛅ 26 °C
The Romans had their capital here but everything has gone except a few mosaics in the museum: there are no visuals of ruins.
I took the photo from the huge concrete hotel which has been abandoned forЧитать далее



































































































Did you swim there? Van
Tony HammondI suppose SOCAcretes never went there?