Travel

Wow! Again! Sue thinks this was the best day of the trip so far, and that was before she got her phone back! It was a reasonably early start again today. We left the campsite just before 8 with no breakfast. The #6 arrived pretty quickly, authenticated our Dubrovnik day pass, and dropped us at…

Phew… that was a day in the heat! But wow! – Dubrovnik! We’d decided last night that we wanted to do the Dubrovnik Old Town Historical Tour. So we’d booked for the 10 o’clock tour hoping to keep out of the blistering heat later in the day…. We were partially successful. We had a quickish…

Another travel day today. 250km to cover. We have a space pre-booked at the Solitudo Camp Site in Durbrovnik, the only camp site, that we could see, in the town. There was no particular rush to get packed and on the road, so Sue went for a double whammy… an early morning run, followed by…

A quiet day again today, though we headed into Trogir on the 8am ferry for an early mooch around and some breakfast. It was a hot night again with temperatures only dipping into the 20’s late in the night. And the idiot behind us decided it would be a good idea to blow his paddle…

End of week 4… 4 weeks away! Because of the heat, at least that’s how it feels to us, we’ve had a quiet day, just cycling out to a quiet cove for a dip, first thing. The temps are still in the mid 30’s during the day, so we decided to make an early start…

First full day on the island of Ciovo and we decided to take the ferry to Trogir. We’d both had a very hot and sweaty night last night. Temperatures stayed in the high 20’s until around 3am, so we were both very glad of our swamp-cooler fans… Water goes in the top and is evaporated…

Not really much to report today. We’d packed up the van last night, so we were away from the Bear, Plitvice campsite by 8:45, once we’d had some brecky! It was then just a question of knocking out the 240km to Trogir. Once we’d got an hour or so under our belt we called the…

Strap yourselves in… there’s going to be a lot of water today! Plitvice Falls – highly recommended, one of the highlights of the trip We had a reasonably early start this morning as we were cycling the 6km to Plitvice Lakes and had a 10-11 entrance time. The lakes are a UNESCO World Heritage Site…

Not much to write about today. We just hung about the campsite, did some washing, sorted out where we’re going on Friday (Trogir) and a quick trip up to the Tommy SuperMarket just up the road (and what seemed to be endless €1 shops). The Bear campsite really emptied this morning, just 5 pitches used…

It’s another travel day. 1460 miles on the odometer before we left. Sue had another run this morning as she realized she could have run the 6k all the way around the lake… just had to be done. (Apologies before we get into the post… this is a very boring one!) We’ve left Slovenia behind…

Quiet day today. Sue started the day with a run to the other side of Lake Bled and back… … And once she got back, and showered, we had a slow amble back around the lake to the water sports centre, where the main Camping Bled site is located. The cafe outside that camp site…

Well that didn’t turn out quite the way we expected. You’ve just gotta go with the flow sometimes. Having adjusted our plans and torn down the van ready for a big downpour, it didn’t arrive. So we packed up anyway and headed out. We’d booked Winkl thinking we were booking 3 nights, were registered for…

Today was going to be a rest day. But…. the weather is looking rubbish in this area for tomorrow and the day after, so we decided to go for it and get the bus to Königssee and the lake.… and… a near disaster! Even with the change of plans we had a leisurely start to…

Wow! The day started in minimalist mode at the Winkl-Landthal campsite where we’d left the van in a minimalist mode over night, to make a quick get away. We had wound the awning back in the night before and hadn’t even slept in the pop top. That meant we could skedaddle really early, with hardly…

Leisurely start this morning as we’re leaving the luxury of fitted sheets, all you can eat breakfast and an en-suite bathroom. Sue had to go for her 7:30, 5k run again this morning and managed to find the Chinese temple in the Englischer Garten. After breakfast we packed our bags and took a light load…

Another day another outing into Munich. It’s still good to wake up in a proper bed and not to cook breakfast. We had a leisurely brecky and then headed out for Dachau. We’d asked about how to get to the memorial at the front desk but we still ended up at a tram station instead…