This week, our Travel pics series is K for Koper. For Saturday, it’s the city’s Praetorian Palace – but despite the name, it doesn’t date back to the Roman Emperors although it does have a connection to the original Roman empire. It takes its name from the Praetor, an ancient title meaning general or magistrate – and the palace…
This week, our Travel pics series is K for Koper. It’s a beautiful city in a beautiful region – with the Julian Alps as a backdrop to the north-east. They are a mountain range that make up part of the Southern Limestone alps, running from Italy into Slovenia. Not as spectacular as their Northern cousins, in Austria…
This week, our Travel pics series will be K for Koper. For Thursday, an apparently random courtyard – but in fact, it’s not. Random, I mean – obviously, it’s a courtyard … I can’t be certain – because I don’t speak either Slovenian or Italian, but I suspect this is the site of the Consulate General of…
This week, our Travel pics series is K for Koper. For Wednesday, it’s a hidden gem. Or a not-so-hidden one. We were coming to the end of a 25-night cruise from the Caribbean to Venice when we called in to Koper, in Slovenia. Half our party had gone on a shore excursion, but my wife, one of…
This week, our Travel pics series is K for Koper. As mentioned, Koper is in Slovenia .. it dates back to the times of the ancient Greeks, when it was known as “Goat Town” – it’s also been known as Justinopolis, and Capodistria – or “head of Istria”, from its days as the capital of Venetian Istria. The city…
This week, our Travel pics series will be K for Koper. And we’ll start with a sure-fire way to win your way into a 21st Century traveller’s heart! Koper is a small port city in Slovenia – about 25,000 people, just across the border from Trieste in Italy. Unlike its nearby Italian cousin, Koper is not a major…
This week, our Travel pics series has been J for Jets. And we end with a pic chosen because it’s just plain iconic .. and its about to disappear. American Airlines has a fleet of nearly a thousand planes .. and a mix of liveries. The most famous is this – the silver fuselage with red-white-and-blue striping…
This week, our Travel pics series is J for Jets. For Saturday, we return to Nadi, in Fiji, and this Virgin 737. VH-VUY .. or Snapper Rocks, as Virgin calls it .. is a 737-8KG variant, built in 2010. It was originally flown as a Virgin Blue plane, Byron Beauty – but was later repainted and renamed…
This week, our Travel pics series is J for Jets. For Friday, it’s the C-17 – or Globemaster III. This aircraft was designed to fill the role left by the C-130 Hercules turbo-prop cargo and transport plane, and the larger C5 Galaxy. Just a bit smaller than a Boeing 747, the Globemaster III was proposed in the early…
This week, our Travel pics series is J for Jets. For Thursday, there’s not much of the jet on display – but it was such an amazing view, I couldn’t resist! This is the Alps, from on board an Alitalia Airbus A320 We were flying from Heathrow to Rome, to spend a few days in the Eternal City…
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