Overland to Slovenia 2024

Heading into Italy, around the Bay of Trieste, and passing Venice to the left, we arrived at the Euganean Hills (Colli Euganei) just to the south west of Padua - an area completely new to us, but one we thought looked interesting - and didn’t seem to be suffering with the horrendous flooding🤞A fascinating volcanic landscape with peaks rising from the flat Padua plain - lots of opportunities for walking and biking, and pleasantly surprising to find it was a major wine producing region too 🤣 The region is quite small, and our first stop was on the western side at a beautiful winery, the Bacchus & Ariadne Agriturismo in Vo - a place we’d found on the Park4Night App. Despite the winery and restaurant being closed (we did know in advance), we were welcomed to stay the night in the grounds, and for free (we did buy some lovely wine from them in return 😀) An ideal place for us to unwind and for Rubes to relax and explore 😃 As it was grape harvesting time it was interesting watching al...