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Kotor sits at the end of a drowned river canyon under 1,700 metres of limestone. Eleven hours on a bus to get here, 1,350 steps to get above it, and the cruise-ship arithmetic that decides your day.
Ljubljana has 295,000 people, no cars in the centre, and dragons on the bridges. Plus a day trip into a cave system that swallows an entire river.
Bologna's arcades mean you can cross the entire city in the rain without an umbrella. Also: tortellini in broth, a leaning tower nobody visits, and the best €9 lunch in Italy.
Ten days in the Kander valley waiting for a lake to melt, learning what a Swiss regional train costs, and walking above the cloud on a Tuesday.
Two weeks in a city that refuses to perform for visitors, a ferry to a prison island, and a walk into the Calanques that I got slightly wrong.