Taking some of the mystery-uh out of Istria – part 2

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 …

Taking some of the mystery-uh out of Istria – part 1

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 …

Falling for Plitvice – part 2 – A walk in the park and more

When I left you in the previous post, we were about to set off on a five-kilometer circuit of the upper lakes at Plitvice. Although the walk isn’t particularly strenuous, the unevenly slatted boardwalk on which you spend most of …