Santa Croce It seems a very ordinary show Until you sit and slowly look around, It still won’t be salubrious I know But pearls are in their shells when they are found. Once opened though the mystery has gone And there’s no longer any fantasy, Just ordinary now we’re not so fond Should gifts of pearls be left below the sea. Now ordinary is what many covet So much destruction makes it look like [...]
We were surprised when our bus driver (we were off to a new hiking ground) told three girls the complete wrong way to go. We were sitting in the seat that usually distracts the bus driver so we heard it all. We knew this area well and told the bus driver that he had given the girls the wrong direction. When they came back he apologised to them and gave them our directions. We [...]
Most friends and family know where we are. But not everyone knows where the Dolomites are. They are a mountain range in north eastern Italy that form part of the Southern Limestone Alps and extend from the River Adige in the west to the Valley Piave in the east. Most of the larger mountains we saw were above 2000 metres with the two largest being a Swiss mountain - Tofana di Rozes, just over [...]
We’re sort of getting used to the bus. Corrie no longer jumps into my lap when the front of the bus tries to get rid of the back. It’s more a small amount of blood on my hand where she has pressed her finger nails in a little too hard. Wandering up the street we were having some trouble with our ‘google gear’, so I asked a bunch of 7 year olds where our [...]
Mimosa and David were not only our hosts for a few days but treated us like their Slovenian family. David is into exotic fruits (his business) and she is into exotic behaviour and in her forties was mothering us, showering us with pastries, exotic fruit, orange juices which looked like tomato, muffins and…. They lived above a beautiful lake next to a petrol station which was not beautiful. But like most of this north western [...]
Bohinj and Most an Soci After a very comfortable, lively, and personal time with our Slovenian friends we had a train to catch but due to the line being under repair we had to leave the train for a bus and then back on a train. The bus ride however needs a comment. I get nervous on take off and landing in a plane but there is one other time, and that is in a [...]
An eventful train trip to Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia, had us meeting a young Sicilian boy called Roberto and a Venezuelan man called Renee, a delightful time, as we uncovered bits of each other as only you can do when trust emerges. We said our goodbyes, arrivadercis and adios’s. Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia, was our introduction to this interesting country. This vibrant city revolved around its delightful river that was squeezed into a [...]
