Terme Sonni Park Vivat, Moravske Toplice

... for breakfast (much like how we savour our caffeine fix first thing in the morning...). We weren't too sure that what we got was actually what we ordered, but we hung around for one more round before walking to the station.
Noting that Leannes train was running 20mins late, we settled into the cafe/bar at the station and proceeded to have a couple more rounds ...

... Having checked the bus details for the morning, we found a hotel, which was also a pizzeria, a casino and a night club...
we decided to go the 'nicest' restaurant in town and I dined on the largest rump steak I've seen.. all the while being entertained by a flautist, who predominatly performed 'contempory' pieces...
After dinner we wandered around the town, which appeared to be charming, with a locked castle nestled behind the ...

... in waterball (or smthg?) and the there was the welcome-party for the team. That gathering on the square developed to a immense party with people singing hymn and anthems as well as drinking beers and shots.

The next day i got up "early", which means 7; I didnot get up before 10 for some weeks, so it was hard work to open my eyes.. After 2 strong coffees and cereals i checked out ...

... working, instead of, sitting and drinking beer with 5 girls.. So, the whole plan had to be changed, instead of meeting other CS, i joined them and he showed me the main parts of the city.. Zagreb is nice, quite compareable to Graz.. Just girls are much more cute here :)
We arrived in Tomis flat some time ago, now cooking dinner and have some beers in 10-people-CS-community is planned..

So more later
cya

... about my equipment:

First of all, i don´t have a tent with me, but a hammock with mosquito-net, if it´s not raining sleeping outside shouldn´t be a problem. Sleeping back and thermo-air-matrace are included for sure. Gas-cooker and a pot, poncho some elektrolytes and vitamins and the usual stuff (headlamp, aircushion, knife, carabiner, moneycat etc);

some special stuff i ordered from globetrotter.de:
+ vacuum ...

... very well located between the Old Town and the train station, we took a walk around the old town and the Lent area down to the river to see the oldest grapevine in the world (over 400 years). They don't get very much out of it every year so it is decanted into quite small bottles and the mayor of Maribor decides who to send bottles to. There is a thank-you letter from Bill Clinton on the wall ...

Ziel 217km Ges. Platzierung Zeit 1 Wagner Josef 21:55 2 Peel Michael 1 Tag 00:12 3 Lackner Reinhard 1 Tag 00:53 4 Pelzmann Johann 1 Tag 01:24 5 Mühlbacher Ambros 1 Tag 02:54 6 Pfandelbauer Andreas 1 Tag 03:05 7 Ulreich Christian 1Tag 03:59 8 Dieplinger Günter 1 Tag 04 ...

... Sieger herzlich zu seiner überragenden Leistung gratulieren. Auch der 2.platzierte Michael Peel konnte den alten Rekord unterbieten und erreichte nach 24 Stunden und 12 Minuten glücklich das Ziel. Der Bürgermeister von Kalch kam höchstpersönlich mit dem Rad dem Läufer entgegen um ihn anzufeuern und gratuliert jedem finischer persönlich im Ziel. Die weiteren Finischer: 3. Lackner Reinhard 24:54 4. Pelzmann Johann 25:25

Checkpoint Jennersdorf um 8:27 Jennersdorf 199km Ges. StartNr. Zeit Zeit/km Zeit/km 2 Wagner Josef 19:55 06:49 06:00 6 Peel Michael 21:36 08:19 06:31 40 Lackner Reinhard 22:45 07:35 06:52 3 Pelzmann Johann 23:02 07:56 06:57 20 Pfandelbauer Andreas 23:22 08:56 07:03 10 Mühlbacher Ambros 1 Tag 00:24 08:04 07:21 1 Ulreich Christian 1Tag 01:11 09:04 07 ...

... still in his kayak... Clean and dry, it really was time to move on. Caught the next bus to Ljubljana, had my first McDonalds this year (grilled chicken pita, ok? My option was cold, greasy pizza), and took a train east to Maribor. The countryside flying by looked like freedom. Foreign embroidered laundry outside foreign pink-washed houses. Fields of sunflower, cabbage, corn. Deer on the edge of the forest, a horse cantering in a panic around his field as ...