We survived the storm last night but with the wind still roaring everyone seemed grateful for a morning to catch up on some schoolwork and then treat ourselves to an afternoon at the local (indoor) waterpark - the slides to ourselves and a rock-climbing wall above the pool meant the afternoon whizzed by and fingers crossed for slightly better weather tomorrow.

Well luckily the snow hadn't settled and we were able to continue our cave explorations this morning - firstly to go and see some cave creatures and learn about how they have managed to survive in these caves. The olm (Proteus anguinus) seems to be the most famous - also described as the cave salamander - and it was fascinating to see it but we were not queueing up to buy any of the cuddly teddy versions of this human/fish/lizard creature - its's not really the ...

We left behind our little piece of paradise on Pag early this morning and headed for the ferry and then North into Slovenia looking for somewhere to spend our last few Kuna on the way and resorting to the "restaurant of last resort". It was freezing cold and pouring with rain - the weather forecast that had looked unbelievable as we sat on the beach yesterday appeared to be true - the temperature had dropped over 10 degrees over night and there appeared to be th...

Morning school before cycling the other way out of the campsite on the "Health & Friendship" track towards Secovlje Salina National Park. This is a 750 hectare salt pan area and was really impressive to see how they historically extracted salt from sea water. After visiting the museum we hopped back on the bikes and continued to cycle into Croatia stopping at both the Slovenia and Croatian Border posts. Luckily we had our passports with us!!! We spent ...

After arriving in Venice in the early hours of the morning and a few hours sleep in Italy, we headed on to Slovenia for lunch in Portoroz in one of the cheapest campsites so far with one of the most stunning views. We were waterside, looking across to Piran and as the sun shone and we spread out across about 4 pitches we had already forgotten the late night ferry. We got on the bikes and headed North on the Parenzana cycle path (the Health and Friendship route)...