Today's route basically followed the coast road from Trieste (Italy) to Piran (Slovenia). Stunning coastal scenery of which the majority of it was flat but with some reasonably steep hills squeezed in between tiny coastal hamlets. Muggia was our first experience of tiny off road streets which were too narrow to fit vehicles down but good enough for us to avoid town traffic. As usual we never really knew where these lane ways would pop out but the beauty of them made up for the extra kilometres. We stopped for a coffee in Muggia and Sabrina, the proprietor of the shop was busting to help Gus with his navigation. (Photo attached) From there we continued to cycle the coastal route to Piran. It was substantially longer but our chance of getting lost was reduced as a ... read more

Up at 0530 hrs to read the comments that have come in overnight. Thanks guys. We decided to head towards Triest and take in the UNESCO Stocjanske cave system. We'd googled the route and set off full of confidence. After a short time we were cycling down quiet roads flanked by poppies and a selection of other wild flowers. We knew that we had a short stretch on what looked like a fairly major road on the map. After a left turn we were on it!! It was the flattest road we had come across unfortunately it was a freeway or to be more correct a toll road. Lots of drivers were tooting and giving us advice and I thought what nice people there were to be cheering us on with such enthusiasm. About 4 kms ... read more

Up at 5.30 hrs. Breakie and pack our kit. We'd previously wrote the directions out of the city down so there should be no problems. Lol. Beautiful weather , flat roads. We made our way out of the city with relative ease. Only missed one turning and soon discovered that error so we backtracked. Our intended route was Ljubljana, Horjul, Vrhnike, Logatec, Postojna. Our actual route was Ljubljana, Horjul, Sentjost, Horjul, Vrhnike, Logatec, Laze, Rakek, Zelse, Postojna. Doesn't sound like a large mishap when it's written but we found that the side trip when we were geographically challenge to Sentjost was up and over the highest feature in the state. We cycled up for more than an hour. My poor chicken legs burned so much I thought I was going to have roast chicken. On the ... read more