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Istria, Croatia and Slovenia

Gavin Greene — Sat, 19 Jul 2025 08:14:50 +0000

Our plan was to explore the whole peninsula, taking in a little of each country, eating the local food, pottering around sleepy villages and playing cards in smoky mountaintop cafés. The small coastal town of Rovinj in Croatia was our first stop, a picture-perfect terracotta roofed town jutting out into the Mediterranean. It was the end of September when we arrived, and the summer’s days had…

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Lake Bled, Slovenia

Gavin Greene — Wed, 11 Jan 2017 12:00:00 +0000

We based ourselves in Ljubljana (read more about that here), but as well as the beekeeping museum, we set out to explore the nearby Lake Bled and Vintgar Gorge. Somewhere online (here) I had found a handy guide to the best views of Lake Bled. I thought it would be a lovely (and fairly simple) romantic walk, so we parked up, I popped on my suede shoes, Nicola grabbed her best handbag and we…

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Ljubljana, Slovenia

Gavin Greene — Fri, 06 Jan 2017 12:00:00 +0000

We arrived early and checked into our hotel, which was one of the best hotels I have ever stayed in. More about that later. We had chosen to visit Ljubljana as it was (as of 2016) the proud owner of the European Green Capital of the Year, thanks to some great environmental initiatives over the past decade. I took great delight in wandering through the recently-pedestrianised streets…

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