Road kill, sad sunflowers and the 2000 mile club: Budapest to Bratislava
Since getting the train out of Croatia and spending a couple of days off in Budapest, we were more than ready to get our chaffed asses back in the saddle […]
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Carrots and terror in the coolest city in the world: 2 days off in Budapest
Escaping the train station and having to carry our bikes down yet more steps, we enjoyed a short ride along the banks of the Danube towards our hostel. It was […]
The Grebs in Zagreb
It turned out that our odd looking but cosy little hostel in the Croatian burbs had its own “private bus service” (man with van), so we got a lift to […]
Up, down, left, right, R1, R2, Triangle, Circle… CHEAT CODE ENTERED: Plitvice to Zagreb
If you have read the last couple of posts on our adventures so far in Croatia, you may have worked out that Croatian drivers are crazy, their roads are narrow […]
Our holiday snaps, 1986: Plitvice Lakes National Park
Crawling out of our tent, we were greeted by extremely grey skies accompanied by temperatures of about 15 degrees. For the first time in a long time we remembered what […]
No photos please: Senj to Plitvice National Park
It turned out that our “waterproof” Nikon camera wasn’t hugely watertight so, as you might imagine, taking it snorkelling with us ended badly. It was rubbish timing too as today’s […]
Peeks and pokes: Rijeka to Senj
We spent our day off in the coastal town of Rijeka. It’s a fairly quiet little harbour town but the guide we’d picked up from the campsite suggested there were […]
Thunderstorms and hogs: Through Slovenia into Croatia
We woke in the early hours of Tuesday morning to loud cracks of thunder and the clatter of heavy rain pelting off the canvas of the tent, which doesn’t bode […]
Wudys, caves and horse parades: Venice to Slovenia
We left Venice early to avoid the crazy traffic we’d witnessed yesterday, so it wasn’t too bad apart from one scary bit where we had to cycle across a 5 […]
From Venice with love and big sausage pizza
Our previous evening in Venice had really made us want to go back, so for our next day off we’d decided to spend it there. After the now routine day […]
Cycle Tramps 