Jaye Marie and Anita Dawes

Here we are in Slovenia via the Bodensee (below) which we managed by leaving very early and missing out our first night’s planned camp-site which was only just up the road anyway.

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Hurtling through Germany via Munich we carried on to Salzburg and our one night in Austria. So far my language skills were holding up although I would never describe myself as a German-speaker. I do love to make the effort. As other people collect car-sticker or costume dolls, on my hols I collect phrases.

Fabulous mountains in Austria

Nice country, good coffee and nommy cake!

Imagine, then how dismayed I was to find that although written in Latin script, Slovenian looks like a bad draw at Scrabble with few vowels, many pronunciation marks and conspiring to make my attempts sound like I’m sneezing through a gob-full of chewing gum. People are very understanding and everyone we’ve met…