Radanovic Crikvenica

... We did have some lunch out I had ham and eggs and Ian had a vegetable lasagne mine was nice but Ians was tasty apart from the mushrooms in it yuk!

Did not do much really to talk about the place is like Llandudno with some great hotels and a sea front and a little harbour but the weather was terrible so we just chilled back in the room its really cold but I had the biggest bed ever with the fluffiest pillows just what I ...

We finished up the last leg of our road trip in Cesky Krumlov in Czech. It is the most amazing and well preserved medieval town in the country. They were too poor to rebuild the town in the 1800s - as a result everything has been well preserved from the 15-16th Centry. We have seen plenty of castles on our travels - but this one is something else. We stayed in a cool ...

... had to at least wear pants..hehe. I went snorkelling at one stage, naked of course and came across about 1000 tiny fish... it then got me worried where they might swim and I had to cross my legs and swim with my arms only after that!

Our 2nd full day we woke up to a lot of wind and I was worried our pop up top would rip off so i pulled it down and top and tailed with kathleen downstairs. The wind didnt let up ...

Après une bonne nuit, malgré le retentissement des cloches de 5h du matin, nous voici partis, chaussures de marche aux pieds, sur les côtes de l'île. Nous décidons d'aller directement sur le versant opposé au camping pour fuire la foule. Le temps de trouver le chemin (les croates sont assez avares d'indications!), nous commençons notre randonnée sur une ...

... toujours voir la chambre avant d'accepter, les tarifs sont peut-être moins élevés que ceux pratiqués par les agences de location mais peuvent réserver des surprises!

2ème conseil : préférer les agences de location car les chambres sont classées en étoiles. Vous pouvez également vous fier aux panneaux accrochés aux façades des maisons. Si vous êtes à pieds, les catalogues proposés ...

Enfin le train arrive en Croatie! Malgré le retard, nous ne regrettons pas ce trajet à travers la Slovénie car les paysages étaient superbes, naturels et verdoyants. Un bon coin pour faire de la randonnée.

Pour une raison pratique (prendre le bus pour l'île de Cres au plus vite), nous décidons de ne pas descendre au terminus (Rijeka) mais à l'arrêt Opatija-Matulji ...

... a castle on the top of a hill. There are 560 stairs to get up to it. Needless to say, I stopped and rested several times on that trip. But...not much else to do, except the hostel has TV!!!!! In English! Alot of channels. And CNN! My first in months and months. And wifi is good too. So I am studying up on the Slov history. Is very interesting.

Great little place to relax, with plenty of beaches (topless, nude or otherwise), hiking, boating and more. Heavily touristed by northern Europeans, with lots and lots of skin on the beaches and boats, and a very interesting medieval town made for wandering tourists.

... next to me who talked incessantly in his sleep & refused to move to one of the many empty double seats? Not my idea of 1am fun. So I decided to put my ***** hat on & at the next lengthy stop (which occurred far too frequently!!) he got off for a while, I laid on the 2 seats, jammed my headphones in & faked some sleep. Once the bus started moving again & he’d sat elsewhere I managed to get some real sleep before we got to Split :)

... with a few exciting moments driving but those others around us are very patient. As the weather stayed fine, we drove up into the mountains to the Black Forest and stayed in a lovely little town called Schiltach (pronounced: shill-tarhhc) on a lovely Camping Platz on the Kinzig River. Visited the local museums as well as the annual fair (to listen to a busker playing the didgeridoo - cant get away from those Ozzies). Took the kids to a model train museum with incredible ...