Good sleep, woken by fishing boats unloading at 06:30. It is already 32C when we leave and the air-con is only just coping. We return to the camper shop as he sells rear light clusters for €58, when they are £85 in UK. One of ours is scruffy and corroded and N+G have one with a broken lens. We take the scenic route around the Grado peninsula, at first flat fields of maize then later large wetlands with lots of birdlife. Grado is a long, spread out tow...

From Izola it's a short drive to Koper, Slovenia's major sea port where we easily found parking. Last night the plan was that if we could park we would visit, but that has somehow been forgotten today, There is a short disagreement so we say forget it and drive on over a convoluted route to avoid the toll road until we Areach the Italian border on a bend in a country lane. We pass the urban sprawl of Trieste where we see the Wartsila factory with a number of ...