182 & 183 Come rain or Shine

A second day of pouring rain and we couldn’t convince the pups to go out. Mabel flatly refused and Ernest darts in and out as fast as possible. Jasper doesn’t care either way. The day was largely consumed by a major writing session on the realities of vanlife, route research, pampering in the frying pan, …

180 – Beauty behind the clouds

I noticed a week or so ago that people on the camper forums were making their way to Spain…they are affectionately known as snow birds, arriving early November and staying in the warmth until Feb/March. Having realised our original winter destination of Greece is rather cold/wet I’ve been resisting joining the masses in Spain choosing …

179 – Ljubljana and laundry

Ljubljana is only a small city of 300,000 people and relatively new so there isn’t a huge amount to see, but it has a nice feel to it and it’s great being able to walk to everything. We first took the pups for a long walk around Tivoli City Park. It’s free to park there …

178 – Castles and Caves

Today we saw what feats of creation both man and nature can achieve. Our morning walk was around the grounds of Marimare Castle, which has a spectacular cliff edge setting with views of Slovenia to the left and views of Italy to the right. After a false start getting stuck in a tight, steep one …

177 – Soaking up the Slovenian Riviera

Being woken by roosters came as a bonus as our camp spot was near a school and we had been warned we could get trapped in if we didn’t leave early. So by 8am we had already arrived in the quaint town of Piran. Parking proved a bit of a struggle but we eventually found …

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