Unlike all of my other destinations, I’m not traveling solo in Ljubljana, Slovenia. My friend T. lives there, and she has a car! Our mutual friend Kim’s visit to Ljubljana overlapped with mine for several days, and so the three of us, in addition to hiking all over the city, also took a few road
Rijeka, Croatia is not one of my 18 candidate cities, but it’s well situated as a stopover between city #8, Split, and city #9, Ljubljana, Slovenia. As it was, the bus I took from Split to Rijeka (pronounced ree-YAY-kah; the “j” in Serbo-Croatian is pronounced like the English “y”) on 29 May 2018 took eight
Split probably grew on me the most of the cities I’ve visited so far. My first impression, that Split is a summer resort town overrun with tourists, isn’t unjustified. But a lot of the people strutting their stuff on the Riva and drinking in the many outdoor restaurants are locals. And partially this impression is