For everyone who just got back from holidays, IAPRI hopes you had a great time.
My wife and I went on a great cruise with friends around Italy from Rome to Venice, stopping in some wonderful coastal cities. Then one of our son's joined us for several days in Slovenia. When he was in graduate school for his MBA he interned there one summer. Then we returned to Venice and some hot days seeing more of that great city..
Slovenia is absolutely gorgeous with the mountains and little villages. One of the best days was hiking the Vintgar Gorge or Bled Gorge, which is a 1.6-kilometer gorge in northwestern Slovenia. Carved by the Radovna River, It was a loop trail and a 2.5km, mostly up hill, hike back to the start that nearly did me in, but the first part made it all worthwhile.
