Hello!!

Where should I start, Venice.  We spent a couple of days in Venice.  The first day, we got off the ferry, walked over a little bridge and on the other side was a building with huge spray painted words saying  ”Kill the tourist”, for a second I pondered and agreed that if I was to live somewhere similar that was crawling with tourists I would feel the same way (oh except the killing part, not so keen on that!!).  But, then I realised that comment was directed at me, and became a little disturbed by it.  lol.

Venice was almost what I was expecting.  It did feel like I was walking around a postcard, everything seemed familiar for some reason, the canals, the bridges, coloured buildings, all very pretty.  Things I wasn’t expecting was the small winding alley ways, lined with shops filled with beautifully made masks and all sorts of stuff.  Secondly, when we arrived to St Marks the entry was flooded, we had to walk along fold up tables, and lastly it was a little dirtier than I expected.

I looked up about the flooding and it’s actually reasonably common, with the city sinking and the water levels rising, you don’t realise how much of a threat the city is under until you can see it actually happening.  I must admit I did love seeing the tiles on st marks floor through water, just made them look even more special…and by the time we finished looking around the flooding had gone enough for us to walk out.

One thing I regret, is that after seeing Ljubljana all lit up beautifully at night, transforming it completely.  We never did see Venice at night, I have a sneaky suspicion that it would look just as stunning at night, however, I will have to wait for my next trip to find out!

Oh yes, here I am on the Rialto bridge (wow it was busy, we had to wait a while before getting to the middle to take this photo – but the good news is that I love the attention, and I always get attention when there are crowds – yipeeeeee)!  See, it was a perfect day, with a great view:

I am actually now in Rome, however, I will come back and post on that tomorrow (I am making a conscious effort to get more photos, so lets see how that goes!).

Well, it’s been busy!

Mainly because I have been helping out with the launch my parent site, which is exciting cause I know they have a tonne of cool ideas, they just don’t have to people to make it happen over night, but it will get there, I will be helping them where I can (although I think I will need to do a little more traveling first!!).

Anyway, back to it…

right, so after spending sometime in Bled we decided it was time to head out for Venice.  However, along the way we stopped into the famous caves.  We got there nice and early (a little too early, but we had time to relax and be first to get our ticket).  We caught a cute little train that took us deeper into the cave and after  a little time of ohhhing and ahhhing on the way down we got out and was able to walk around while our guide was giving us the facts.  Here are a couple of photos of me in the caves:

a little blurry, this camera wasn’t the best for photos at night I have found out.

It was quite cool down there (in both the temperature and good factor).  Since I am on the topic of caves, while this one was lit up nicely, what is with the coloured lights in caves?  Is it to bring out certain colours in the rocks?Or is it purely for entertainment purposes?  I have always wanted to know that (well, always as in the last couple of hours at least – hehe)

So after walking around the caves, thinking about the millions of years it took to create the stalactites and how it would be typical for me to fall and knock one down (however I didn’t, probably because I am not tall enough) it was time to go.

At the end we were told to wait at a station for the little train to take use back up…..and I am serious, they really have a station in the cave, complete with a little yellow line (which I am naughty and am in front of)!

Toot toot!

Next stop was Venice, since Italy isn’t the cheapest place in the world we were told they have pretty good camp sites with cabins that are reasonably priced, so we found one that is right next to a ferry stop that will take us in.

Byeeeee

Hello!!

Well we are out seeing Bled today.   It is so picture perfect, it’s not funny.  Seriously, look up photo and you will see the lake with the church (I say look them up because I forgot to get photos, I even forgot to get photos without me in them!!!), we opted to go driving to the other side of the lake where there were less tourists (yes, I am still on my never ending search to see fantastic places without all the people – hehe)!

We did a lot of walking and checked out some of the shops, we found a nice little area were I got some shots on a cute bridge:

See what I mean by uber pretty?

Next stop we are off to see the caves, which I am looking forward to.

Ok,

Well, we have done a lot of driving lately….and been across 4 countries (not really recommended if you want to actually see stuff – lol)!!

First we left Vienna for Bratislava, we spent the day walking around looking at the castle and the town, all very pretty, but as it got later we decided we were keen to move on, so we headed out towards Budapest in the afternoon, although because it was getting late, we stopped at Gyor and found somewhere to stay.  Gyor was a bit of a gem, a really sweet place, we got a little bit of afternoon light to look around before retiring for the night in out hotel:

Then in a huge change of events, we all had a bit of a talk and decided that we would ditch the idea of Romania for Italy…… so we awoke early, got some fresh bread for brekky, and head towards Italy, although, it wouldn’t be a real trip without some stop offs along the way!  We decided we wanted to check out Croatia first, however due to time constraints, we couldn’t go down the coast as I would have loved, instead we checked out Zagreb.  On the way, I saw a Croatian chicken!  No one would let me say hi, so all I have to show is a blurry photo:

Due to the lack of information we had on Croatia (we never planned to come here), we drove around Zagreb, looked around and basically headed back out.  Which leaves us here in Ljubljana.  We arrived late, found a place to stay and headed into the centre for something to eat, and oh my, this would have to be the most romantic place ever (Well, that I have seen), we are staying where the water flows through the city, and all the restaurants have outside seating with lots of fairy lights, cobblestones, old buildings and candles everywhere…. just perfect.  We will be staying in Slovenia for a little longer than our normal stops, mainly because we are tired of driving and it’s soooooo pretty  (Also we were told before we left that we have to see Bled and the caves)!!

Here I am being very brave in a photo that was just begging to be taken.  After walking around the very grand Belvedere Palace, we made our way out to the bus, and while walking down the pathway we could hear someone blowing a whistle, continually, and very loudly, then we heard shouting, soon we realised there was a person that actually was just there to keep people off the grass, and he took his job very seriously!  I don’t really blame him, I wouldn’t be too happy having a tonne of tourists stomping my immaculate lawn either.  Although having said that, I couldn’t resist taking this photo:

Next stop was our last of our sightseeing, we went to the Praterstern amusement park, with the oldest ferris wheel in the world.   Had a great time walking around the park at sunset/ night, the old rides were the best, and we tried as many as we could (as you know I love a good amusement park!!), however this one was more special, as it had a real nostalgic feel about it which I loved.  Here is me riding the ferris wheel:

View of the park

View of the city.  Hmmm, I wonder if anyone can point out the newer part of Vienna?  hehehe

The last couple of days of sight seeing have been great, seeing the old part of Vienna with the new make this an extremely livable city, in fact I liked it so much that I looked up available jobs in the UN here, although nothing for this little chicken (I think I would make a great ambassador, well except for obeying signs).  I have been trying to rank the cities in an order from my most favourite to the least, and it’s a little hard to do, but Vienna would be in my top 2 (and that’s pretty good since everything so far has been ‘awesome’ for this chicken.

Anyway, time to head out to Brataslava (we are on our way to Romania), here I am trying to drive again, you can see the problem that I face with trying to look over the steering wheel…..you might also see the other problem….the car is parked!!!  hehehe

Hope everyone is having a happy new year and working hard on their new years resolutions….mine is always to travel more!

So, we left the very Lovely Prague, and headed out to Vienna.

We are staying in a cabin on the outskirts of the city (20min walk to the train), and this time, rather than running around silly like usual, I decided to take one of those tourist buses that travel around the city and drop and pick you up.  Due to this, I have some pictures (some strange ones) that I took while we were driving around:

I love the old buildings

There was a specific reason why I took the second one, and now I forget what it is, damn…