Krka National Park Waterfalls Oh goody! We’re going back to Krka National Park. I just can’t get enough of those waterfalls. If I had to spend my days as a freshwater gull, this would be the place for me. This time around, we are going on a boat trip from Skradinski buk to Roški slap (slap being Croatian for waterfall). Her Ladyship has surpassed herself. Her second boat trip in a week. We’ll get her sea legs going yet!…
Šibenik, Dalmatia A typical day on the campsite. His Lordship appears at the caravan door, looking decidedly sheepish. ‘I think I might need your help’. ‘Oh God. What have you been up to?’ says Herself. Filled with trepidation, she leaps out of the caravan to investigate. It turns out that His Lordship, probably after seeing so many other guys on the campsite tinkering around with boats or setting up satellite dishes, has lost the run of himself completely. He decided…
Skradinski buk, Krka National Park We’ve hit the road again, and what a road! Across Istria to Rijeka, then turning south down the Dalmatian coast. Motorway all the way, but if you have to take a motorway, take this one, the A one. I mean, the A1. The views are just lovely. They are particularly spectacular once we exit the Sveti Rok tunnel. We have great views of the coastline bathed in glorious sunshine. Soon afterwards, we spot some snow…
West Coast, Istria The joys of off-season camping! Our section of the campsite in Vrsar on the Istrian peninsula must consist of over 50 pitches, but with only about half a dozen currently occupied, we have a wonderful, uninterrupted view of the sea and islands. The weather is great and the Oldies are being particularly lazy, soaking up the sun by day and enjoying the ridiculously gorgeous sunsets each evening. Paradise! It’s not an entirely peaceful paradise, however. Spring has…
For once, there isn’t a peep out of the Oldies. They are standing stock still, open mouthed, staring in stunned silence. It feels like we are in a war zone and, in fact, it was exactly that, back in the early 1990s. A huge number of buildings still bear the scars of the bullets, shells and grenades that completely devastated this town. We are in Vukovar in Slavonia, eastern Croatia, a town that suffered the bulk of this enormous damage…