Blogs from Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy, Europe - page 10

Geo: 45.6495, 13.7689 Gün 74 günlerden Salı Bu sabah telaşsız kalktık. Ayşe yi bıraktım, 10 :00 lara kadar uyudu. Sonra nihai olarak toparlandık. Kampla teması kestik ve Metro ya gittik. Eksik kalan bir şeyleri aldım.... kafama takılan hardalların bir kısmını iade ettim. Oradan otobana çıktım ve Trieste ye gidiyoruz. Geliş istikametinde yaklaşık 50 km lik bir bölümde TIR lar adeta bir duvar örmüşler .Araçlar neredeyse duruyorlar. Şimdi, O yöne gitmek de vardı. Perişan olurduk. Bu yöne gittiğime memnunum ve kısmetliyim diyorum. Yolda bir yerlerde yakıt aldım ve MIO yu (GPS) dinlemeden limana doğru akmaya başladım. Molo VII yi takip ederek, sahaya girdim ve ofis önünde park ettiğimde, saat tam 13:00 tü . Zaten acente yöneticisi, Lorenzo ile tam 13:00 te buluşmak üzere anlamıştık. Son etabı da kazasız belasız atlatt... read more

so we finally arrived in venice....! we left florence yesterday at 11 only to travel 15 min to antoher train station for a train that would take us to venice. the train FINALLY arrived and then we started our journey, only 4 hours luckily. however when we were in teh florence train stsation we tried to book our train from venice to paris only to be told that the first train woudl be avaible on tuesday...2 days after we had thought we'd leave. this created some confusion and panic but we worked together and separetly to figure out (possibly my train child) that we could go to nice and then staright to paris. so when we reached venice we booked up the new trains and headed to our hostel. the hostel is pretty cool looking although ... read more

Hi Everybody! After leaving Bled, we visited the Triglav National Park in N.W. Slovenia. The drive into the mountains had 50 hairpin curves that overlooked a beautiful gorge. The road was built during WWI by 10,000 Russian POW's. We decided to stay in a sobe in the small village of Ciginj that night. The couple who owned it, also operated a paragliding adventure business. Speaking of sobes, all of the owners have been so nice and gracious. One elderly widow in Croatia, brought us a bowl of freshly picked figs and big purple grapes. She didn't speak a word of English, but we still managed to communicate. We turned our rental car in at Rijeka, Croatia. There was going to be an extra charge of a few hundred dollars if we took it to Italy. The ... read more

July 5, 2006 Yesterday we slept in at the Jolly hotel in Trieste. We had breakfast and it was another beautiful sunny day. Jon loves the cappuccino in Italy. We shopped all day. Trieste is not really a tourist destination but it is in Italy so they still have shopping all round the main Utica Square. Jon found some Etro shorts and some cool tan leather Italian shoes. I found 2 Galliano dresses and some Prada shoes. We had lunch at the perfect little spot; Bok. It was a procsiuttoria so we had prosciutto and melon, mozzarella balls and bread. Jon had another Italian cappuccino. All of the stores are closed between 12 and 4 so long lunches are the norm. We walked all over Trieste until 4 o’clock and then shopped until the stores ... read more

On Sunday morning we picked up a rental car in Vienna and started our road trip. Our first stop was just over the border in Gemona del Friuli, Italy, where my friend Monica from Monterey lives. The drive took about four and a half hours and included some incredible scenery (as well as more than a few tunnels as we drove through the Alps). Gemona is a small city near the Austrian and Slovenian borders, and is actually very close to where we were in Slovenia last summer. It is technically in what is called the pre-Alps, and the scenery was amazing. We arrived there in the pouring rain, but after a nice cold beer and some snacks at Monica's house, the rain let up, and we took a walk around to see the town. ... read more