Setting out
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Staring out from Ferney to Zurich. Rico enjoying first class, of course. Barely able to believe the holiday is finally here! And the Interrail app works - bit different from first time, 30 odd yearsLeggi altro
Staring out from Ferney to Zurich. Rico enjoying first class, of course. Barely able to believe the holiday is finally here! And the Interrail app works - bit different from first time, 30 odd yearsLeggi altro
Night train small but comfortable, clean and friendly. Drew up next to the Orient Express somewhere on border with Austria. Woke to Slovenia and gorgeous landscapes, late into Zagreb with a coffee andLeggi altro
Lunch and a walking tour in Zagreb, a pretty capital with a rural feel..especially on a Sunday. Long train ride through green fields and forests on a single track with not enough kuna for more thanLeggi altro
Arriving in Split late at night - the Riva and old town full of party-goers (fellow grey heads out and about at 9am instead) - warm Southern air like an embrace, white stone, palms, yachts, money,Leggi altro
Split - the Palace and Cathedral, views from the bell tower, the white city. Christianity claiming pagan places as the Romans did the Greeks did the Thracians did the shamans. Holy places are simplyLeggi altro
Down the beautiful Dalmatian coast, Illyrian, Greek, Roman, Slav, Croatian, bit of Venice and Austria-Hungary and even Napoleon. But who wouldn't want to live here? The sunken mountain range givesLeggi altro
Up one of the minarets by the bridge, the colour of the water, the bridge view that is never enough, the call to prayer echoing from mosque to mosque in a melody that is stirring and deeply foreignLeggi altro
Blagaj is just outside Mostar, with a tekke or dervish house where prayer meetings are still held every week, next to the deepest spring in Europe, high mountain walls home to eagles, water gardensLeggi altro
Very early bus to Dubrovnik..which arrived very late...getting out of the bus three times as we crossed out of Bosnia into Croatia, back to the tiny bit of Bosnian coast and then into CroatiaLeggi altro
Kotor, city of retired sea-going cats, enormous cruise ships, gorgeous gold and white stones, alleys with shade, a fortress high above,Venetian spirit and bones, too many tourists, glorious backdrop,Leggi altro