As expected, Rijeka was nothing special. Nothing particularly bad about it, but wouldn´t reccommend a stay. Highlight of the day spent there was our walk up 540-something steps to a small, village-like cluster of buildings overlooking the town, including a monastery and small castle (legitimate - had turrents and canon). Good viewpoint, and so would have been a nice view if there had been something good to look at. Hostel dorm-mates review, Art Hostel Rijeka: t...

Just arrived in Croatia! (Not the UK again already, as my blog entry is suggesting. Teething problems, will get that right next time). In Rijeka, which is a northern port, not a standard backpacker stop-off point, and not really an intended stopping point for us, but we´re going to stay for a day just to work out how exactly we´re going to traverse Croatia. To backtrack over the last couple of days, the Slovenian Alps were stunning. Our stop off points, Lake B...

Saturday 7th August, Ljubljana, Slovena, the trip felt like a holiday for the first time, as we had a day without travelling and also finally shook off the Manchester weather that had followed us since Wednesday's departure. Teased the previous day by sunshine through the window of the train, for most of the journey from Munich to Ljubljana through stunning Austrian Alpine scenery, but literally as we pulled into the station a dark cloud appeared from nowhere, ac...

...and the map should now be up to date! Right, back to September in Poland...

It worked! So now I'm putting in Paris, and in a moment I'll put in Munich (I did mention in Paris and Munich, but I think that was in the Slovenia blog - clearly I'm a professional standard blogger).