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Day 26 – to Danta di Cadore (Tennis Club) Ravascletto has made itself home to Friulian folklore. Friuli is this area of northeast Italy and has its own culture and history. While Italian is the official language of the region, several other regional languages and dialects are spoken in Friuli.…

Day 25 – to Ravascletto, Carnia There was a track at the back of the place I had parked overnight. I looked briefly on the map before taking it, and headed off. It was a drizzly morning, the forest eerily suspended in the mist. Shortly after I started I realised…

Day 24 – to Arta Terme, Italy Some days of rain have arrived. They are greeted with mixed emotions by the locals, as it has been very dry, but also much colder than usual, and it seems like it won’t warm up until at least next week. It doesn’t really…

Day 23 – at Camping Klin, Soča gorge The plan was to take the Zagreb Old Military Road over the pass at 1200 metres, and descend to the Lepena waterfalls at the head of the Lepenjica valley. There’s a lot of First World War history here. The campsite boss has…

Day 22 – Klin Camp, Soča gorge I moved on today, but just a few kilometres down the Soča river, through a section in which it flows through a gorge, and was rewarded with a different perspective of the Julian Alps. There are two campsites here, kept busy in the…

Day 21 – at Trenta Some rain due this afternoon caused a postponement to my usual morning business, namely reading, and took a high forest path to the village which actually is on,y a kilometre or so away. It was clear though that no one had been on this path…

Day 20 – at Trenta, Julian Alps In many respects this is a great time to visit the Julian Alps. As the holiday weekend came to a close I was the only one left at the farm campsite on which I was staying. The road is extremely quiet also. It…

Day 19 – to Trenta, Julian Alps In places like the Triglav National Park, a good driving route choice can be very rewarding. Today was a good example. Rather than head down through Bled and in the motorway to Jesenice and Kranjska Gora (Slovenia’s main ski resort), I took the…

Day 18 – at Bohinjska Bistrica Those Belgians.. their party went on until 3 am, raucous singing and loud music. This is very rare on campsites, and made me think straight away that they weren’t the sort of people who usually, or ever, came camping. Sure enough, their vans were…

Day 17 – at Bohinjska Bistrica With rain predicted for the afternoon I headed out, again on foot to Brod, just after 9. There’s a good bakery very close, so afterwards I took a croissant to the ‘Allo ‘Allo cafe nextdoor. The rain was in the form of a front…