Zach Ascot

Whilst in Italy, well actually Slovenia I visited the Postojna Caves. We crossed the border from Italy and from the coach I watched as the landscape changed. It was nice to see that across the border you could already begin to see differences within the landscape and architecture! The good news is that the journey took so long that by the end of it everyone on the coach had enough time to learn how to pronounce 'Postojna'. After arriving at a very pretty spot, we got our tickets and queued up to enter the caves. On entrance they have photographers trying to take your photograph (I suppose what else would they try and do?) at the end of your cave experience there's a board of photographs where you can find your photo and then buy it. We looked at ours and it wasn't what we were wanting. Not that our faces were hideous, we just had better shots of ourselves from our phone cameras. Sorry photographers! We then ended up having to ride a brigh...

As part of an organised trip whilst on holiday in Italy, I got the opportunity to visit Miramare castle. The castle has a lot of history behind it as our tour guide explained in an attempt to educate us and distract us from the coach trip. Unfortunately, I didn't end up that educated. No surprises there then. Whilst I can't share with you historic facts, I can tell you my first hand experience of visiting the castle. If you want to know specific dates, check Wikipedia or a calendar! On arrival the coach drops you off quite a way from the castle. For those of us gifted with legs that haven't had new knees put in them, this isn't a problem. For some of the 'out of season holiday demographic' this wasn't ideal as the walk to the castle was slightly uphill. The good news was that the incline made way for brilliant views. You could see all the way out to sea and close to the edge of the walkway whilst looking down you saw all big rocks protruding from t...