Bonjour,Despite the date noted at top, it's really August 29th as I publish this post, and we've just returned to Morocco for the second half of Ramadan. We had lots of adventures in the weeks since my last post but very little internet access... so, to catch you up...
After saying farewell to the Karloffs in Trieste, we headed to Slovenia for a quick visit.
(Here's Sarah, demonstrating the perils of camera timers despite her speed).Slovenia, which declared its independence from Yugoslavia in 1991, was not part of the nasty Croatian/Serbian/Bosnian war. Instead, based upon what we learned at the history museum, Slovenia defeated the Yugoslavian forces after a 10-day war in late June 1991.
In any case, it certainly didn’t feel as if there had been a recent war in the country. The Slovenians we met were friendly, open and appeared genuinely happy to have tourists (of which there were a fair number, largely European. Still must be to hard to compete when you are Italy’s next-door neighbor...).
Since we seem to like to climb things, we headed up to the palace overlooking the historical center (well, Bob climbed. The kids and I took the funicular), and then climbed the tower to capture these views (and so Tommy could torment me by pretending to fall).
En route back to Italy (Venice) the next day, we visited an easily-defended castle of a 16th century robber baron that had been built into a natural cave on a 100-meter cliff face (see also photo at top).
Then it was off to the airport and back to the African continent. This time, though, we headed to Africa's southernmost points.A bientot,
Kim
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