Croatia
I ate a breakfast of vegetarian pannini and café latte (Soya) prepared by the lovely Liliane, a worker from Moldova, and said goodbye to Ostello Venezia. I would highly recommend the hostel for a backpacker stay in Venice. I was sad to take my last vaporetto ride the Santa Lucia station, and got on a comfortable Austrian train, destination Vienna(!!) from Venice, towards Trieste. The Slovenian border officials (3) got on and checked my ticket, my passport and my COVID pass. An hour or so later we arrived in Davica, Slovenia, in a huge thunder and rainstorm. I had three hours to wait in a bus shelter, whilst conkers crashed from the trees above. There was a German Lady from Hamburg (unvaccinated!) and her 11 year old daughter travelling same route to Buzan in Croatia. The replacement minibus was warm and comfortable. It was due to depart at 16:12, for our connecting train at 17.07 from Buzet, an hour away. What I saw of Slovenia was hilly and rural. We passed thro...