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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…
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Day 2 – Godendorf to Fussen (Luxembourg and Germany)
A well earned beer after a hard day’s driving View of Lake Forggensee. Driving day so not much to report. Headed off about 9.30am after a stop to refuel and buy some lunch for later. The diesel was really cheap (1Euro a litre) and, more importantly, so was the wine! Good old Luxembourg. A…
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Day One – Dover/Dunkirk/Echternach(France, Belgium, Germany,Luxembourg -England doesn’t count)
It was an early start today as I couldn’t sleep and was out of bed by 5am. Most of our stuff (emergency tent, rucksacks, chairs, kettle, kitchen sink etc,etc) was packed last night so there really wasn’t much to do but I still managed to faff around until 6.15, much to Steve’s irritation. There’s a…
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The Grand Tour – driving from England to Turkey and back again
Introducing The Grand Tour The idea for the Grand Tour came about while I was thinking about travels for my bucket list. I’ve always loved the idea of a really long road trip, heading for a particular destination but stopping at beautiful towns, scenic spots etc on the way. While “The Long Way Down” with…
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Costa Rica cogitations
Costa Rica cogitations It’s been over 2 weeks since we left Costa Rica and looking back over our trip, it’s a wonderful country that I will definitely return to. I would like to go back to Drakes Bay and see Emillio’s vision for his trekking area, explore the Pacific Coast and inland around Dominical, and…
Middle-aged flash packers
The ramblings and wanderings of two middle-aged travellers up for adventure
- 2021 – There are no plans. Covid
- About
- Australia/Vietnam Revisited 2025
- Bulgaria – Roses and Trains 2025
- Cabo de Gata 2024
- Costa Rica 2015
- Escape to Italy 2017
- Going round in Circles – Circumnavigating Spain 2021
- Greece – Pottering The Peloponnese 2021
- Into Africa – 2022
- Into Africa -November/December 2022
- Jordan Jaunts 2023
- Mini adventure in Northern Portugal – 2018
- Mission Triglav – Slovenia, Italy, France 2017
- My blog
- Myanmar and Thailand 2019
- Oman 2019
- Oz Odyssey – Australia, Fiji,Hawaii 2016
- Panama 2023
- Return of the Road Warriors – Europe revisited 2019 Liechenstein, Switzerland, Italy, Slovenia, Czech Republic, Germany
- Road Trip to Anywhere – France, Italy, ? 2022
- Roaming the Rhodope – Bulgaria
- Sicily wanderings – on the volcano trail
- Tea, Trains and Temples – A journey around Sri Lanka 2017
- Tenerife 2024
- The Grand Tour – Driving from UK to Turkey and back again 2015
- The Hills are Alive – Austria road trip September 2025
- The Silk Road – Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Azerbaijan 2019
- Turkey – 2020
- Wainwrights Lake District UK part 2 2022 March
- Walking the Wainwrights part 1 – Lake District UK 2021
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