TravelStream™ news feed for member stevelegassick on TravelPod's free travel blogs service http://www.travelpod.com/syndication/rss/stevelegassick en-us Copyright ©2009 TravelPod.com Thu, 03 Dec 2009 00:10:29 -0500 http://www.travelpod.com http://www.travelpod.com/travel-blog-entries/stevelegassick/62/1247998621/tpod.html http://www.travelpod.com/travel-blog-entries/stevelegassick/62/1247998621/tpod.html#comments Travel Blogs http://www.travelpod.com/travel-blog-entries/stevelegassick/62/1247998621/tpod.html Thu, 03 Dec 2009 00:10:29 -0500 Croatia 1 (1 week)

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Rab, Primorsko-Goranska, Croatia

Great little place to relax, with plenty of beaches (topless, nude or otherwise), hiking, boating and more. Heavily touristed by northern Europeans, with lots and lots of skin on the beaches and boats, and a very interesting medieval town made for wandering tourists.

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Zagreb, Croatia

A couple of days strolling around Zagreb, a busy city with some interesting history and sights.

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Plitvice Lakes National Park, Ličko-Senjska, Croatia

Hiked all day with another traveler from New Zealand, all around the lower and upper lakes, which took 6-7 hours in tremendous heat, but it was very scenic and interesting, and quite a workout! Turns out she was some sort of ultimate frisbee athlete, so most of the effort was keeping up with her.....

That night we stayed at a local guy's house (18US$!) and had a very nice room. I had one of my most interesting conversations, as this man had quite a war story: Serb but Croatian, married to a Catholic Croat who died after the war, spent 6 years of the war in the relative safety of Zagreb, came back to a thoroughly vandalized home with 1m of garbage filling every room, his neighbours who are relatives chose to support and fight on the Serbian side against Croatia, but now live back in Croatia next door....etc etc etc.......lots of tension in the air, to this day! The stories went on and on, in pretty good English....and it turned out this guy had lived in France at some point so he would also fill in missing words with French. Real cool to talk to an old dude like this.

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Rijeka, Croatia

Just a pit stop, overnight, to catch the fast ferry to Rab Island, at 5AM.....a ferry that never showed up! Off to the bus station with all the after-hours shady characters at that time of day.....

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Taipei, Taiwan

Not the tallest building in the world, but very impressive, very fast elevator takes only 30 seconds to the top, incredible view of the gigantic, sprawling city of Taipei.

Shaped somewhat like bamboo. Interesting, huge counterbalance ball moves by computer control at the top to dampen the building's motion in wind.
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Kobarid, Slovenia

Cemetaries, forts, battlefields, monuments and a must-see museum about the biggest WW1 battle you probably never heard of....a wicked battle up on snow capped peaks in horrendous conditions with ridiculous suffering on both sides.

Famous future general Irwin Rommel was a young officer here, and they say this is where the Germans first starting developing that whole blitzkrieg thing.

It was also here that Ernest Hemingway volunteered as an ambulance driver and his experiences here ended up in A Farewell to Arms, another high school book I didn't read....but now that I know he met a nurse here, I just might!

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Triglav, Bovec, Slovenia

A 1-2 hour fun drive zig zagging up and then down 50 switchbacks, each marked with a number and altitude, plus great views all the way and a pit stop at 1611m.....where dozens of cyclists (!!!) take a break before heading back down.

Triglav means "three heads" which were visible when I descended to the south into the Soca Valley, where an insane battle of WW1. It was during the war that Russian POW's built the original road over the pass.

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Bled, Slovenia

One of Slovenia's most beautiful spots, Lake Bled, with it's fantastic setting by the mountains, stunning turquoise water and picture-perfect little church on a little island in the middle, with a big castle overlooking the whole place. Most of the pictures are taken from the castle.

Not too far away was a hike to a little waterfall, another highly visited spot, but it's really about the walk along the scenic river path in the valley, because this is one small waterfall after sweating like crazy for 30-40 minutes!

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Piran, Slovenia

More Italian then Austrian, lots of tourists pop into this nice little town but not a beach in sight! Everyone lays out on the cement by the water. Great place for lunch by the sea, with great monokini scenery in the sunshine.....

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Skocjan, Divača, Slovenia

Sorry, too dark for any good pictures, but here are a few attempts. This place is HUGE, with awesome, massive caverns that blow your mind, very impressive and interesting. The remains of the original internal stairs are visible in many spots, built by the original explorers long ago. A very worthwhile stop.

It was about 500-600 steps down to walk through the whole thing and come out the other end.....where the elevator back up was broken, meaning 500-600 steps to climb back up outside the exit, lots of fun on this boiling hot day!



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