Our last stop in Slovenia was a tiny fishing village in the South on the Adriatic Coast, called Piran. A UNESCO listed village with its wonderful maze of narrow medieval streets and small fishing harbour. Our drive into the village was meet with torrential rain, not a good start to a visit to the coast. Our trip to the hostel was very wet as the cobblestone streets are not designed to handle such downpours as there were very few drains and where there were, they were overflowing as the city sits right on the water level.

We stayed at the Val Hostel, a very nice little hostel inside the village. The village so very small you can walk around it in about 15-20 minutes without breaking a sweat. The village has a very strong Italian influence as it was part of the Venetian Empire for a hundreds of years and it’s only a short boat ride across the Adriatic Sea to the Venetian Lagoon. We spent the following day wandering around the city randomly taking the different little alleyways trying to get lost, visiting the harbour, climbing up to the old city walls and doing some washing in the hostel. A pleasant break before we set off into Croatia for a very busy week and a lots of driving.