There are no secrets anymore. Google, Wikipedia, Lonely Planet, ‘Professional’ Travelers’ Blogs – they reveal and recommend all. Big mouths leaving no quiet and quaint corner unexposed. Pave the way for modern day world wide explorers. Everyone urged to not miss the ‘must see attractions’. Tourism tykes poking their noses in any backyard they can find.
Our last day in Slovenia plonks us a short and free HOHO bus ride from Piran – number nine on our ‘must see’ list of ten. Why? On-line the Guardian describes it as ‘Little Venice – an undiscovered gem on the short Slovenian Adriatic coastline’. How do they know about it if it’s undiscovered then? Was I wrong to expect canals? Just one would have been nice! Hyped hyperbole create unrealised expectations. Seems its current misnomer is due to the fact that for five hundred years it was part of the Venetian Republic.
As towns go though, it is pretty.
A locked gated entrance prevents us from entering a couple of its churches. A local artist commissioned to create a different kind of focal point. This one our favourite.
Tomorrow we move on into Croatia and a new ‘hit-list’ . . .