Today we get to the final destination of this trip: The Peljesac peninsula. And we are here for a wedding. On the way we stopped to look at famous Počitelj in Bosnia and Herzegovina and at the War Monument on the peninsula 15 years after the war ended one still finds evidence of it everywhere….
Today we drove from Plitvice Lakes to the Jablanicko Jezero or Jablaničko jezero as the locals call it. It did rain like in South East Asia. I never saw that much water in one day driving. Sometimes we had to slow down to 40 km/h so the windscreen wipers could cope with the water. And…
Plitvice Lakes National Park or Nacionalni park PlitviÄka jezera as the locals call it is the largest national park in Croatia and one of the oldest national parks in South-east Europe. The name of the park comes from its lakes that are arranged in cascades. The size and water flow of the Plitvice Lakes does…
We did get up quite early and put every thing in the car after breakfast. Lots of traffic but we made our way towards Slovenia and further down into Croatia Omladinsko Jezero in Croatia In the late afternoon I checked my app to look for a camp ground. We did found one to Otok Ostarijski…
Part number 6 of the 2016 visit to Venice in Italy. It is also the last day in Venice. The next morning we drove further east towards Slovenia. So lets dive into the last day! We are on the last leg of this map Graffiti at the Calle Avvocati At the Canal Grande looking towards…
Day Two in Venice – Part II This is the second part of the Summer Trip 2016 – Venice Day II pictures. We walked towards Piazza San Marco and went into the St Mark’s basilica and continues our walk towards the east of Venice. Here is the map of todays walking. Way less as on…
Part four of the 2016 visit to Venice in Italy. Day Two in Venice Today we did walk less and did sit a bit more and watched the people. That does look a bit like that: A few Pictures of People in Venice Let’s go Amigos – over the bridge into the small streets of…
Part three of the 2016 visit to Venice in Italy. We are still on this map: Our walking tour today Chiesa di San Rocco The Chiesa di San Rocco or Church of Saint Roch was built between 1489 and 1508 by Bartolomeo Bon the Younger. It was substantially altered and received a baroque facelift in…
Part two of the 2016 visit to Venice in Italy. Our walking tour today Lets pick up where the last blog post ended – at the Calle Ca’ D’Oro – looking down the canal. The Rialto Market from the Calle Ca’ D’Oro. If you want to see the real action you have to get up…
The best place to stay? Camping Village Jolly! Venice without tourists? Well that is not really possible. It might be at 3 in the morning but you will never walk in Venice for hours and see no tourists. But as you can see in the pictures there are still a lot of quite spots with…
The Summer Trip 2016 was successful so far and I was on a roll – let’s continue – till the end of summer at last. We did start in Stuttgart and stopped in Switzerland. After a few days with Lara and Chris (see the last Blog post Part 6) we did pack the bag and…
Summer Summer Summer – next leg on the Summer Trip 2016 is Switzerland. See – there is a wedding in Croatia and I have to attend. Hmm – and I want to attend as well. Now most people would drive more or less a beeline from Germany to Croatia: Stuttgart down south – cross into…