JackHorner

La Trois Roses - La Petite Pierre After sleeping in, it was up for breakfast and way. Today we have been to Colmar to complete a visit started back in 2002, when it was suggested we visit the Unterlinden Museum, sadly on that occasion it was shut for renovation. This time it was open and had some superb medieval exhibits including the Issenheim Altar by Grűnwald, a truly stupendous piece of work. The rest of the day was spent in Colmar, looking around the old part of the town, doing some shopping and having a great day. Lunch was taken in a small restaurant, sitting outside, eating some very nice food and generally ‘people’ watching. A fascinating hour. On the way back we popped into a supermarket and purchased some wine and various other bits. On ... read more

T K Breg - Brda Hills Last day here in Breg and the Brda Hills, so not too much travelling today. After a leisurely breakfast, one egg appeared this morning, so we left it for Saška and Annabel to have; we went for a drive around the various little villages nearby. The weather was perfect, not to hot, but beautiful sun and clear blue skies. The harvest is still going strong, with all the little tractors trundling along with the trailers full of grapes. We ended up in the town of Dobrovo, which has a castle and in the basement a wine cellar, with tasting. I went a little mad, and have ended up with 18 bottles of very nice red and white wine; I just hope they taste as good when we get them home! ... read more

T K Breg - Brda Hills The day started slightly overcast but bright, with the promise of sun later. Breakfast was delivered to the downstairs kitchen at 8am. We are sharing the kitchen with a lovely lady called Saška, who is a chemist/pharmacist and director of a company manufacturing and exporting herbal products. She lives in Portoro, right down in the south west of Slovenia, on the Istrian peninsula. She’s in the middle of a week’s holiday, with her black American Spaniel, Annabel, who is about 6 months old. Her English is good and we had a long conversation on what she did, the state of Slovenia at present etc. It was really interesting, her family have two farms/small holding, where they have olive trees, which they harvest in Nov/Dec and they’ve won prizes for its ... read more

Enroute Logarska Dolina - Breg, Brda Got up early and packed before breakfast. Breakfast was as normal. I managed to ask whether I could buy some elodec and how much, somehow I managed to purchase one at 600gm and a 1.5kg, they are vacuum packed and frozen, so I’m hoping they’ll make it back to UK. I’ll have to find somewhere cool to store them whilst further south. After saying our farewell’s, we headed towards Austria and after a really exciting uphill climb, Jeremy Clarkson would have been proud, we re-entered Slovenia and headed downhill towards Kranj and then Bled. We put in the SatNav not to go on motorways or toll roads, as you now have to buy a Vignette to travel on the major motorways in Slovenia. The outcome was to take us through ... read more

Logarska Dolina - T K Perk Awoke really early and struggled to go back to sleep, Clare also couldn’t sleep, and decided to turn the bathroom light on so she could read a book, the only problem was that she had to round the wrong way in bed so she could get the light. All this meant, when I did wake, I was welcomed with a pair of feet! Apparently she did this so she wouldn’t waken me! This morning was somewhat overcast and misty. The original plan had been to walk up Matkov Kot to Matkov škaf, which is a snow tub, not totally sure what one of these is, but it all revolves around snow melt water scouring out a hole which can measure 20m x 20m. However we shall not find out today ... read more