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Viale Andromeda 25 Grado, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, TD12 4AG, Italy
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Accommodating Trieste
After a much longer bus ride than advertised, we made it to the port. Only the port of Trieste is clearly not used to harboring cruise ships. They hot housed us in the convention center, at least there were bathrooms. By this point, it was past dinner time. We were hungry, and the girls were exhausted but couldn't sleep with all the commotion. We lucked out and connected with a former student of mine and his family. They helped ...
Just Passing Through...
Having left Italy we needed to have a stop on route to Croatia to break up the journey (and add to our growing tally of countries visited), so we plugged co-ordinates into Joan for Slovenia! The camp site was located in a small town called Ankaran, it did not have a lot there but we were sure it would have been very busy in the high season.
As we were by the beach, after our drive we headed ...
I should have been a spelunker
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Slovenia really was a big hit with the family. Between the caves, horses, lakes, mountains and ocean it has everything. The local beer and wine are also a huge improvement to Austria. Of course... we might have a different opinion of the place in the winter when it snows for weeks and snow chains are mandatory on all cars in the entire country!
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Dream come true
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After the tour, Stacy got her treat. She booked a private trail raid on a Lipizzaner horse. This was not something she could do in Vienna. After saddling her horse and going around the practice ring we realized that this was not an ordinary trail ride. These horse were spirited and the instructors needed to make sure the riders ...
Italia! Day Nine (Return to Moss)
... and we arrived back in Moss late in the night after some layovers in Germany.
Looking back, now more than 5 months after this trip, I can say that my week in Italy was my favorite of my 19 weeks in Europe. It was simply magical. It almost seems surreal, even after all this time, that we did as much as we did in such a short time. I've been wanting to go back ...



