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A sunny morning on a quiet Tyrolean road was the perfect introduction to a four-country drive. Leaving Austria, we entered Italy, but you wouldn’t know. Rocky Dolomite peaks impress to our left as we made our way through the slow Italian traffic to Bruneck/Brusio. As mentioned yesterday, Ian has beef with Italy. It can be summed up briefly as an undeserved reputation for world-class food (it’s fine, but just pasta with tomato-based sauce usually), epic landscapes (fine again,

A hand burst out of the toll booth. No words, just a sign saying €1. That’s all it took to leave Croatia. The border facilities were still there due to its recent admission into the EU, but we drove through without any further stops. If you’ve ever read a children’s book about some small, fictional European principality or nation, it’s probably based on parts of Slovenia. Rolling hills, dense forests, ornately carved hay sheds and clustered villages of borderline alpine archi