A cruise? A bus trip? Sightseeing on an organised tour must be exhausting. After several days absorbing the beauty of the Dolomites, the Sud Tyrol and then southern Bavaria I needed to rest my eyes and my mind. A wander around a simple lake, pretty in itself, but unremarkable, was ideal respite from all the […]
Author: Kelvin Collins
The Fatherland.
I’ve just reread the last post. What a week that was. Venice. The Dolomites. The leaky roof. Repairs. Back to the Dolomites and finishing at the immaculate Cortina d’Ampezzo. Cortina D’Ampezzo. Cortina is most certainly the playground of the rich, yet it’s not intimidating in the way of some such places. There are brand stores […]
Sinking, leaking, climbing. A week in Northern Italy.
And then they went to Venice. For as long as I’ve known Minty she has wanted to visit Venice. We’ve driven by a few times on our way to somewhere else. We haven’t stopped. Then came the virus. The world’s most popular tourist spots are suffering like everywhere else. There hasn’t been a quieter time […]
Border crossing – Croatia.
Border crossing – Croatia. So many border crossings happen by motorway. It’s boring. But it’s easy. It was slow entering Croatia, but given it’s a border into the comfort blanket of the EU it was no worse than expected. There were a few questions. A guard took a quick look into the back of the […]
Serbia by camper van – try it!
Coming down the mountain. The roads here are nowhere near as bad as we’d been led to believe. When we lived on Beech Road in Manchester we were used to worse, I’d put them on a par with Italy and Greece. After two nights outside the ski resort of Kopaonik we filled ArchieVan’s tanks, and […]
Border crossing – Serbia.
No comments. Apologies. We suffered a site hiccup last week and the comments section of the blog was hidden until Wednesday. We love getting reader’s comments so we were disappointed. Thankfully our friends at Bronco fixed the issue and all should be working well again. Border crossing. Serbia. The Vrska Cuka border was quiet. Its […]