We went to the nearby town of Rogaska Slatina to see the Rogaska Crystal factory. Glassmaking has been in operation in Rogaska since 1665. We saw evidence of this in the shop. There was another aire in Rogaska Slatina – free this time. It was fine for parking – but it was not in a…

We started the day by going into the village of Sanobor to have the famous Sanobor Kremsnita cake – basically a big custard slice. It was the Croatian Victory holiday so locals kindly told us we didn’t need to pay for parking. Everyone was looking very relaxed wandering around in town and having coffee. We…

We caught the bus then another bus then tram into Zagreb. There was an extra bus to swap to as part of the tram route was under roadworks. There was only 1 small notice on the tram stop so confusion reigned. It took one younger lady to tell us – and all the locals –…

We enjoyed a good sleep after our big visit to Plitvice Lakes. We woke up to a rainy cloudy day. We had been lucky with the weather the day before. We packed up and moved on to our next site near Zagreb – Camp Vugec Plac just outside the village of Samobor. On the way…

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…