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Sliding towards Slovenia

Sliding towards Slovenia

Download a PDF Version of this article Exiting Rovinj on the excellent Croatian bus service motoring easily through the green countryside of the Istrian peninsular toward Ljubjlana via Italy requires two border crossings. A form of efficiency Yugo style existed…

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Ring around New Zealand

Doing Number 8 – or ring around NZ part 2

Download a PDF Version of this article   The journey past the outskirts of Christchurch heads up highway 1 turn-off to the Lewis Pass onto the West Coast road. Heading North up the Canterbury Plains plains at the 30kms mark…

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Portofinos Complaint

Portofino’s Complaint

Download a PDF Version of this article Day-trippers delight is to stay where you want and have sorties into the chosen lands and return to base reasonably able to holiday with little collateral wallet damage. A trip from our home…

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Sienna short stops

Sienna short stops & fired up in Firenze

Download a PDF Version of this article It reminds me of that legendary poem by Louis Shrieve Osborne…...About a fellow on a train from Bangor with only a few words changed to suit this purpose. George Orwell also must have…

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The Count of Montenegro

The Count of Montenegro

Download a PDF Version of this article Day tours to Montenegro are touted in many agencies but a casual pass on the Lapad waterfront in Dubrovnik at a path side tented agency brought forth a casual sales pitch that proved…

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Dubai Moments

Dub-ias – Moments of Pure Gold?

Download a PDF Version of this article Back to Dubai for the 2 nite express stopover to Europe and a chance to reacquaint ones soul with what the other side does to alleviate the ravages of the drought. Emirates Airways…

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Hvar Hauteur

Hvar Hauteur (Hvar We Come!)

Download a PDF Version of this article Train travel from Umbria to Ancona is like following a lifeline through an alpine gorge with perched groups of up to 10 stone houses popping up from oaken clusters. Sheer limestone cuttings break…

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Terrors of Cinque

The Terrors of Cinque

Download a PDF Version of this article Now that the world has swamped the Five Lands or Cinque Terre the chosen time to be there is when the Star Spangled banner is furled and Rick Steves travel books are at…

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