We got up at 6am and quickly had breakfast to make sure we were at Plitvice Lakes in the 7-8am slot. We were there at 7.10am – not bad – and there weren’t too many other people there. We entered at Entrance 1 (out of 2 possible) and decided to walk route C – supposedly…

We had a nice morning swim in the sea at Punta Povile before getting going. We were positioning ourselves at a campsite near Plitvice Lakes so we could visit there early the next morning. After a big climb up the mountain and then a nice drive through green fields on the plateau we arrived at…

From Pula we drove west up the opposite coast – the Opatija Riviera – through the towns of Brsec, Moscenicka Draga, Lovran and Volosko. The roads were very windy on the cliff edge up the coast but the views were spectacular. The beaches were packed with holiday makers. There were many gracious art deco mansions…

It was a very rainy morning and it didn’t stop until lunchtime. We actually enjoyed taking it easy reading and doing crosswords. It’s about the first time we have been so lazy. We are usually dashing around like blue-arsed flies. Once the rain stopped and the sun came out we jumped on our bikes and…

We heard the bad news about our friend Rab on the way to Pula so we didn’t have a good day here. We arrived at the aire on the Harbour. We had to do something instead of sitting around feeling devastated so we checked out the major locations here. The first one we came to…

I haven’t written anything for a few days as we received some shockingly bad news. Our very good friend Rab Pringle who I have know for over 45 years from Edinburgh university days suddenly collapsed and died on Golspie golf course. Helen his wife is my best friend from university. They both met there and…

We had a big storm at 4am and got back to sleep around 5. It was very cloudy and cool so we woke up around 8.30am – very late for us. It was still raining so we hung around the van until early afternoon when it cleared up. We jumped on our bikes and headed…

We left the campsite near Porec early just as the kiddies were coming out to play at the playground right next to us – a lucky escape! We went to find a carpark nearer Porec within walking distance. They were all only one that accepted motorhomes charged 5 euro per hour – a big rip…

We got packed up and arranged to meet in Lidl in Koper. Lisa and Sean tried to get LPG gas but Slovenia doesn’t seem to have the right gas or fittings. We both did our Lidl shop and then we went to Decathlon to buy things to upgrade our bike gear – tyres, tubes and…