Haai my dear friends,
The taste of the road is on my mind and we've already had a great experience .. ... The journey started in the ardennes in Belgium and quick we wanted to head for Germany.
There i met an old friend i met in La Palma years ago and the spirit was great. He had a story about sailing around timeless seas and far away countries. The mood for travelling became even more great. We spent a nice night in a old castle on a hill and were turning time a few hundred years back .
Back on the road and past Munchen on to Austria. Once the mountains came closer, a undesireable feeling to climb some came and a day later we started turning the heads to a mountain-top i had been focussing on. We made it till 1945 m but because off thick snow I had to return and leave this enormous top behind. Sometimes its better to be precautious and dont risk too much.
We drove through incredible landscapes and clean rivers. South is the main direction and for the fun we passed one hour in Italie and drove to Slovenie.
This is stepping back 50 years into time and the hills are so green and full of life. Small towns full of farmers and pretty narrow roads for my way to big Pajero, funny sight...
We met some very nice older people were we could spend the night on there peace of land .
Almost immediately they served very nice coffee and the local brewed alcohol, weeeew hot stuff, but a warm feeling when you wake up and 5 min later served . So, slovenian people know hospitality very well.
We are very happy to experience all this and the next country was Croatie. Here we spent our second night on a camping, yeah, we try to go wild camping or at farms as much as possible,saves great money... But the biggest surprise was that it was a naturist campsite, hehe, old naked people running around and staring at us, little dressed people... no comment.....
Yesterday evening, after looking for a peace of ground we ended up at a farm where we got pancakes, yeah, delicious pancakes.......nice people really..... Before we went to Plittvice waterfalls and waaaaaawwww, this is a must see for anybody who comes to Croatie.
But on the way to these, we drove through some forests full of mines, from the war, some years ago and it gave us a sudden feeling of freedom being destroyed for all these people. And when we looked better around you can still see many houses full of holes,because of being shot at, destoyed and abandoned afterwards..... something to think about..... Even when we got coffee from on old lady you could still see tears in her eyes because of loosing much family in this stupid war.
Today is one of our first days of rain and till now we have had sun every day and sometimes even hot....something is wrong with nature, beleave me........but till now it was in our favor..
So, the spirit is good and the road ahead is nice. Next days we go to Split by the sea and take a ferry to one of the islands in front of the coast. Pajero on the boat, hehe.. He has been on a train also, somewhere in Austria by the way, funny way of transport over there.
>Then on to Mostar and its nice bridge and sarajevo for a visit.
Greats to all and to enjoy the moment
Stefaan en Carla
