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Continue reading →: Masna LukaI’ve not long finished reading my second of the Booker shortlist, and that may well be it. My first, Sarah Bernstein’s Study for Obedience, was a 5 out of 10, with a good first half, but her style of writing didn’t really appeal. The one I’ve just finished, Paul…
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Continue reading →: Martin Brod, Una National Park, Bosnia & HerzegovinaI entered Bosnia from Croatia across the same border I had exited from 5 years ago by bike. Once over the border, which involves the stamping of the passport, as it is exiting Schengen, the town of Bihać is just a few kilometres away. I remembered it well. I…
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Continue reading →: Above Plitvica Selo – Plitvice Lakes NPYesterday I shared the paths with more than a thousand other visitors. Today, instead of turning left into the lakes area, I turned right and followed the river Plitvice up to its source, and saw nobody at all during the three hours or so, 12 kilometres, that I was…
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Continue reading →: Plitvice Lakes National ParkAfter a lazy morning enjoying the company of the bears at Kuterevo I headed an hour or so further east through wonderful heavily forested country around 500 metres asl. Despite the warm Adriatic coast being so close, temperatures here drop as low as -25C in the winter, with plenty…
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Continue reading →: Bears & Beers – Kuterevo, Velebit National Park
I headed a couple of hours south today which meant a section along the coast. It’s still high season here with lots of campervans and motorhomes around, and 28C though with a strong wind. It’s full of hotels and autocamps and completely unappealing to me. It was a slow…
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Continue reading →: At Razloge, Risnjak National ParkI was last in Croatia in the summer of 2018, but it was memorable only for being poisoned by a dodgy lasagne at a restaurant I used the night after coming over the border from Bosnia. I was biking the Balkans, from Thessaloniki to Nuremberg over 32 days. That…
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Continue reading →: Razloge, Risjnak National Park, Croatia
All this rugby is having the effect of lowering my cultural intake. I’ve actually watched every game so far, which I didn’t think I would. Correspondingly, I haven’t seen a film for 3 weeks, and whereas I usually get through 6 books a week, I’m down to half that.…
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Continue reading →: At Krn, Triglav National ParkThings calmed down after Friday’s deluge. Saturday was forecast to be very wet as well, but that rain never materialised, instead a blanket of low cloud and mist slowly broke up leaving wispy segments loitering against ridges and below, in the valley. The peaks of Triglav were still shrouded,…
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Continue reading →: Krn, Triglav National ParkWe nudged on a bit up the valley to Radstadt and the wide Enns river valley that gives the area such high quality dairy farming. There was rain coming today so I was keen to get out before midday, when it was forecast to set in. It was the sort…
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Continue reading →: Werfen, Austrian Alps
Just a quick update from the journey south. For the last time, thankfully, I picked up Roja’s Animal Health Certificate from Folkestone. The collection date can’t be changed, and the vets don’t open until 10 am; if not for that I would have crossed to France last night, it’s so…
To live more widely
supera superiora sequi
SafeReturnDoubtful is my alias. Rua is my fox red labrador pup, born 14 Feb 2026 and learning fast..
Where is Rua?
I was so much older then…
Quote of the Week
Alice asked the Cheshire Cat, who was sitting in a tree, ‘What road do I take?’ The cat asked, ‘Where do you want to go?’ ‘I don’t know,’ Alice answered. ‘Then,’ said the cat, ‘it really doesn’t matter, does it?’
Lewis Carroll
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