Today was the second of two wonderful days of field work in Slovenia and I will report fully on them with pictures over the coming days, always remembering that I'll be in transit for something like 32 hours over that period en route for Surfers Paradise and Armidale.
The first trip was essentially along Slovenia's border with Croatia and the second tooks us south through Karst country to Trieste, Koper, and Piran. Trieste isn't even in Slovenia. It's in Italy, but the amazing benefit of the Schengen Accord is that it allows travellers to pass through member frontiers without any passport and customs checks. So, we ducked into and out of Italy at high speed!
Slovenia's Adriatic coast is wonderful - await the pictures in anticipation - and Piran is the best of the locations. I took the opportunity of about 45 minutes of free time to jump into the Adriatic and swim around in the very warm waters. I had come prepared and I didn't do it nude, although a lot of the locals don't seem to mind that attire. Strangely, Piran didn't have a beach at all (except possibly at low tide). I was there at high tide and the only way to get in the water was to jump off big boulders or take a steep flight of steps. However, the water wasn't deep and I could stand on the pebbly bottom easily enough.
Alas, I don't have a picture of me in my birthday suit (with my private parts suitably covered). It's difficult to hold a camera in the water and take a picture of oneself. The weather was warm enough for swimming - a mere 34 degrees! - and brilliantly sunny.
AS
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