Monthly Archives: November 2016

Tourist spelunking. The previous entry provided some dramatic views of mature Karst landscapes but peer below the surface and you may well find complex underground drainage systems forming karst aquifers. The surface can also hide caves or even extensive cavern …

Thus far on our trip around the Balkan Peninsula the countries we’ve visited have had long, troubled, and war-ravaged histories standing in sharp contrast to both the natural beauty of the territory and some of the stories of cooperation and …

Now let’s take a look at what happened in Istria After World War II. In 1941, as the Second World War raged, a map of the region looked like this:  But that would soon change. When Italy surrendered in 1943, the Tito …

I wrote previously that Istria has a volatile history and promised I’d detail it during our visit there. We’re there on a bus taking us from Opatija to Motovun – one of the best preserved traditional hill towns on the …