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Vogel
We were keen to test our legs for Triglav and decided that a walk up to Vogel (1922m) would be just the ticket. We caught the cable car to 1537m and then wound our way up towards the summit. The terrain is tricky as it’s very stony and not the easiest to walk on. Unless…
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Day 30. Arc-en-Barrois/Calais/Home
I was in two minds as to whether to write about our last trip day. Usually it’s just a day of tedium – long drive, queue at the port, get on ferry, drive home: done. But not today. First of all, Steve found a spider in his ear. Ok, it wasn’t huge but it was…
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Day 28. Annecy
Today started with a trip to Semnoz due to a recommendation from Marc, who owns the house we are staying in. He says the views are fantastic and on a clear day you can see Mont Blanc. It’s a 25 minute drive from Seynod along a steep and torturous road. We saw many cyclists with…
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Day 27. Verduno/Annecy
There was a power cut this morning so Salvatore was a bit distracted and didn’t bother checking the apartment, he just handed over our deposit. Phew! I think everything was shipshape, but you never know. We were sad to leave the area but it’s on the list for a return visit – plenty more to…
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Day 25. Verduno
Time to say goodbye to the charming hotel villa de Luchesse. The staff are so nice here, we have enjoyed our stay a lot. Today we headed north to Verduno, a village just outside Alba. We procrastinated as to which way to go, google map showed journey times as the same- do we risk La…
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Day 24. Sentierelsa Trail/Colle Val D’Elsa/San Gimignano
Our revised itinerary was added to by Steve in the shape of a riverside walk, close to the apparently picturesque town of Colle Val d’Elsa ( from now on known as CVE). After a baffling 10 minutes trying to work out how to obtain a ticket from the parking meter, we headed off on our…
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Day22/23-on the move Poggibonsi
Goodbye Mondolfo. We will miss you, particularly the swifts. Homeward bound but taking our time, our next stop was Poggibonsi, a town just outside of Siena. Having been let down on our original booking, (this appears to be a bit of a trend, see our Spain blog)we ended up in a hotel in this unheard…
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Day 21. Urbino
Urbino delivered. In spades. It’s a UNESCO site and it’s main claim to fame is that Raphael was born there. Those turtles certainly got around didn’t they? For a small amount of time, it was a Renaissance cultural centre and it’s university was founded in the 1500’s. I do enjoy old university towns, they always…
Middle-aged flash packers
The ramblings and wanderings of two middle-aged travellers up for adventure
- 2021 – There are no plans. Covid
- About
- Australia/Vietnam Revisited 2025
- Bulgaria – Roses and Trains 2025
- Cabo de Gata 2024
- Costa Rica 2015
- Escape to Italy 2017
- Going round in Circles – Circumnavigating Spain 2021
- Gran Canaria – The Isle of Dogs
- Greece – Pottering The Peloponnese 2021
- Into Africa – 2022
- Into Africa -November/December 2022
- Jordan Jaunts 2023
- Mini adventure in Northern Portugal – 2018
- Mission Triglav – Slovenia, Italy, France 2017
- My blog
- Myanmar and Thailand 2019
- Oman 2019
- Oz Odyssey – Australia, Fiji,Hawaii 2016
- Panama 2023
- Return of the Road Warriors – Europe revisited 2019 Liechenstein, Switzerland, Italy, Slovenia, Czech Republic, Germany
- Road Trip to Anywhere – France, Italy, ? 2022
- Roaming the Rhodope – Bulgaria
- Sicily wanderings – on the volcano trail
- Tea, Trains and Temples – A journey around Sri Lanka 2017
- Tenerife 2024
- The Grand Tour – Driving from UK to Turkey and back again 2015
- The Hills are Alive – Austria road trip September 2025
- The Silk Road – Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Azerbaijan 2019
- Turkey – 2020
- Wainwrights Lake District UK part 2 2022 March
- Walking the Wainwrights part 1 – Lake District UK 2021
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