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Gorizia, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy - Day 9
Gorizia: Rocked up to a hotel address that was loaded into the GPS at home. Top accommodation AGAIN!
Drove yesterday afternoon from Gorizia, Italy to Nova Gorica, Slovenia, about 4ks. An unmanned border (on the way back we arrived at Gorizia and hadn't realized we’d left Slovenia )
Thought Slovenia would be underdeveloped …
Caves and Prosciutto: Ljubljana, Lipica & Piran
... After the cave we went on a mini hike to a view point and took a lot of pictures. It was really pretty.
Just a 10 minute walk from the cave sight was a tiny authentic restaurant where we had a prosciutto tasting! It was the best I have ever had, and I normally dont even like it. It wasnt super chewy and slimy but really good! I had no idea that it was raw meat!! I knew it was preserved in salt but I just assumed it was cooked somehow afterwards but ...
Bovec rafting
... lunch and then went for a wander. Sat and had a nice picnic in the sunshine before getting kitted up for our water adventure. As there was only me and AP booked in we had the whole river to ourselves with just us and our instructor Nate in the boat.
So after a brief tutorial we launched off onto the Soca River and began drifting downstream. Ridiculously scenic cutting through the valleys of the impressive mountains and the river itself is ...
Caves n coast
... the road. This magnificent and impregnable castle has been perched in the middle of a vertical 123m high cliff for more than 700 years. It looks pretty cool as it is actually set into the cliff face.
We then drove a bit further down towards the coast and had a beautifully scenic drive from Kocep along to Piran, very mediterranean-y and a perfect sunny day. That's what we found so great about Slovenia; you could be in the mountains ...
Cruise Blog 1
... water to smuggle back on board (not really! Just feels like it!). We also found a pet shop that had more exotic species than Auckland Zoo with no entry charge! Snakes, spiders, squirrels, scorpions, rabbits, crabs and a few fish.
We ventured back to the old part of town on the look out for the Istrian markets – we found them but they obviously didn’t realise it was their advertised market day as there were hardly any kiosks there.
We walked back ...
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- Free High-Speed Internet
- Restaurant
- Room service
- Wheelchair accessibility
- Business Services
- Free parking
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