My next adventure is pending. The preparations are underway. In a few days time we (my husband and I) will embark on our next adventure - to travel from England to Croatia by car. Some might think why not get on a plane, it is so much easier. Well that's as maybe.
We leave home on the Friday night (2nd July) and stop over in Dover for an early start on Saturday morning. We embark the ferry for Dunkerque in France from Dover. We then drive through France (avoiding tolls), Belgium, Luxembourg before we spend our first night in Pirmasens in Germany.
We depart from Pirmasens en route for St Johann in Austria, a lovely little skiing town and to a hotel we have stayed in before, Hotel Fischer and reacquaint with Michel and his family. this will normally involved consuming more than enough alcohol! Hopefully, after a welcoming evening, we will be enjoying our breakfast the following morning on the mountainside, as promised in the hotel bumf. Plans are we spend 2 days here and take in some hiking where we have skied in the past
After this well earned break, we will depart for Slovenia where we will be staying at a camp site, Kamp Koren in Kobarid, a few miles inside the Slovenian / Italian border. This might be interesting depending on how our England team perform against Slovenia on Wednesday (23rd June). We are ready to support Slovenia!! Here we will be camping, being in touch with nature (haha) and hope to do some active things like white water rafting, canoeing, canyoning, hiking. There is also a WW1 museum as this was the front line, and there is a historic WW1 walk. Not a lot else except fast flowing river, mountains, wildlife, a couple of bars and restaurants....... perfect!
5 days later we drive on to Croatia and the island of Cres to our next camp site, Camping Slatina. Nothing much planned for here, as some relaxing in the sun will be in order. Maybe a bike ride to explore a bit and a wander in to the small town of Martinescia nearby
After 4 days here, we begin our journey home. A drive from our campsite, to catch the ferry back to the mainland, a route past Ljubljana up towards Austria and back to our hotel in St Johann. After an overnight stop, on we go into Germany, past Munich, Stuttgart and onto Koblenz, were we stop again. Last leg of the journey takes us into Belgium and France and back to Dunkerque were we catch our ferry to Dover.
A boring drive back to home territory ready to begin the working week, with thoughts of our previous two weeks.
I like to write about the journeys I have been on, mostly Turkey at the moment, but I plan to write more. I am an environmentalist so I am keen on the wild and natural (my passion for travel is the most unenvironmental thing I do but I try and make up for it in other ways!)
