Category: Food
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Weeks 32-35: Sweden

Highlights: Beautiful and interesting landscapes, lovely mild weather this far north, top-notch bouldering, interesting cultural quirks, some surprisingly excellent fast food, and great facitilies and resources for campervan-life. Lowlights: Miles and miles of flat land, forest and lakes make for ideal mosquito conditions in June. Our journey north from the UK We left on the…
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Week 24/25: Slovenia

Highlights – wine, wine and more wine, stunning countryside and opportunities for outdoor pursuits, interesting geological features (karsts and related), small but perfectly formed Ljubljana Lowlights – we didn’t have enough time to explore this beautiful country East Slovenia – Wine, walk and bike ride around Maribor From Croatia we drove north to the northeast…
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Week 22/23: Croatia

Highlights: Beautiful and interesting towns, good food and some appealing countryside and national parks, particularly if you like waterfalls. Also great bathrooms. Lowlights: The weather was unseasonably cold and windy, locals kept assuring us it was more like January than April. And, both James and Aileen were sick on separate occasions. Split Our ferry from…
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Week 21: Crossing Italy to catch a ferry

After Sicily our intention was to head to Croatia. At this time of year the only ferry running departs from Ancona to Split. Ancona is about two thirds of the way up the east coast of Italy. This required a few long driving days and there were a couple of things we wanted to do…