Category: My blog
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Day 11 – Montenegro/Albania/Macedonia
Many questions came up today: 1.) why are there so many mercs, BMWs and other “luxury” cars in Albania? 2.) why do the people driving them look like farmers/ordinary people/thugs rather than rich business men? 3) how much do people earn in Albania- looks like a very poor country to me, yet most of the…
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Day 10. Montenegro
Sorry no pics as Internet too weak Caught the bus into Kotor this morning and had a wander around the old town. It’s very reminiscent of Italy and extremely picturesque. Had an early lunch then walked up to the top of the old fort. Very high and there were a few red faced people by…
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Day 9 – Croatia/Montenegro A Feast for the Eyes
What a day! It was another restless night with me finishing and posting the blog at 3am. I just couldn’t sleep. We were up early and after some croissants from the bakery across the road (very average) we were on the road by 9. Whoever made the post on trip advisor re driving the coast…
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Day 8 – Bosnia/Croatia
Day 8 – Bosnia/Croatia/Baska Voda I woke in the night to the sound of pouring rain and found it hard to get back to sleep again. We performed our usual routine of breakfast/shower/email/pack/load car/check room for left behind things. I left my trusty eyeshade in Slovenia which was a real blow as I hate any…
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Day 7 – Martin Brod waterfalls/hiking trail to strbacki buk waterfall
Slept like a log last night. It was a real struggle to get up this morning. It’s either the clean Bosnian air or lack of caffeine. Had a sneaky breakfast in our room. Asmir would have liked to serve us breakfast but at 5 euros each I think not. We will have dinner again though.…
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Photos from day 6
Didn’t manage to post these yesterday so here are some pics from our first day in Bosnia: The river Una at Martin Brod
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Day 6 – Slovenia/Croatia/Bosnia
After much bumbling about this morning we eventually set off around 9.30am. I was sorry to be leaving Slovenia. It has grown on me. We went for a little wander after dinner last night around the streets near us and it was so tranquil and quiet. People have space in this part of the world…
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Day 5 – Bled, Slovenia
Feeding the ducks Starving by the time we ate last night. We had to wait for Rok to come round to collect the money for the apartment. He was a lovely young guy. Many of the apartments here are in old farmhouses that have been renovated and I think Rok has made himself a…
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Day 4 – Germany/Austria/Slovenia
German sign. Nice they’re so concerned about our bowels Lake Bled Beer in the sunshine Our apartment It’s not just us in the UK who are fed up with EU bureaucracy. Chatting last night to our German B and B owner, he told us how he was expected to make changes to…
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Day 3 – King Ludwig’s crazy castles, Bavaria
“Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down your golden hair”…….. Neuschwanstein castle Due to our lack of reserved tickets we were up at 6.30am to secure a place in the ticket queue for Neuschwanstein castle. Actually this worked perfectly – we arrived in Schwangu at 7.30 and were second in the line. The first…
Middle-aged flash packers 