We fell in love with Slovenia from the moment we arrived.On the surface it appears to be a country untarnished by the blight of capitalism and tourism.After a wonderful two and a half week stay in Slovenia we realised some of the depths of suffering that this country has endured both in its history and today.Yet somehow it seems to smile on. We spent a week in Osp in the south eastern part of Slovenia.Our days were divided by rock climbing on the looming limesto...

Sitting in a campground in Italy, about 10 minutes by bus outside of Venice we are contemplating our next move as we pore over our map of Europe.The Polish man from the tents next to ours recommends we make our way down to Croatia, we are contemplating any country that doesn't use the Euro.Our plans to visit Rachael near Sienna have been shelved as it turns out she won't be arriving for another month.We are growing very tired of Italy and have decided to save Rom...

Last Sunday we woke up in Lourdes in southern France.We had spent the night in a hotel room for the first time in eight days and enjoyed all the luxuries of clean sheets, a decent shower, a TV with English news and wifi access.After a delicious breakfast of camembert omelette we sat down to upload some photos and update the blog.Moments before we finished uploading an hours worth of writing the computer crashed and we lost the lot.This was followed by a lot of cu...

ok, we have been a little slow to update the blog but sometimes the life of a traveller is busy, busy. The last time we wrote we were heading back to the west coast to escape the endless snow, which became rain, rain, rain. On route to San Francisco we went to the Redwood National Park which should be at the top of every visitor to the USA's 'to see' list. The Redwoods cover a really large area and at one point we spent 30 miles driving through the trees. They...

After our cheapest day in America so far - where else can you see a new release at the movies for $1.50?? We were happy to see the skies clear over American Fork in time for our dinner. When we woke up in the morning it was, you guessed it, snowing. The snow was settled in for some time so we packed up and moved on... Bonneville Salt Flats was next, Rabbit's holy grail and a very strange natural phenomena. Blinding and brilliant white as far as the eye can see. ...