2017 A break from Blighty Archives - Page 3 of 5

FORTRESS TOWNS OF THE SOUTH

Hungary experienced a Renaissance in the 15th century and became the greatest kingdom of Middle […]

Our destination this time was Transdanubia, the western side of Hungary bordering Austria, Slovakia, Slovenia, […]

We drove a ‘back door’ border crossing into Hungary at Pince because our Slovenian motorway […]

Slovenia is a gateway into the East or West of Europe and, depending on your […]

Catching a cheap and eco-friendly bus to Ljubljana, European Green Capital City in 2016, we […]

Slovenia was basking in early summer heat. Its long-rolling hills shimmered with green wheat fields […]

The Roman winter camps of Aquileia went on to become the ninth most important town […]

Treviso, rumoured to have been founded by refugees from the Trojan War and which became […]

The great river Po flows eastward across northern Italy from a spring in the Alps, […]

Bologna’s history reads like a blueprint for the major Italian cities; founded by the Etruscans, […]