Munich, Austria,Slovenia, Italy, Ferry

We arrived in Munich in late June and headed back to the campsite in Thalkirchen. We had fun catching up with everyone; but the weather was rather iffy; with a lot of rain. We stayed about 12 nights. Once on the road, we spent the first day of the trip travelling through the Austrian Alps. We then crossed into Slovenia; a small country which has become popular for mountain adventure holidays like cycling, hiking skiing and canoeing. Bled is a picturesque town on a lake and we did do a lot of walking there. The capital, Lubijana, is small with a neat old town centre. Slovenia has only about 40km of coastline squeezed in between Croatia and Italy, and we visited Piran, an old fishing village. We crossed into Italy, camped outside Trieste and headed slowly along the coast for Venice. Here we boarded a ferry bound for Patras in Greece. The trip takes 28 hours and instead of getting a cabin, we opted for Deck Camping in Homer. This turned out to be a great decision. We got an outside spot, so it was as if we had our own balcony, with a view and cool sea breezes at night. We could make our own meals, drink our own chilled wine and sleep in our own bed. Upstairs, the decks were strewn with rowdy backpackers, sleeping all over the place whilst we had plenty of peace and quiet.