croatia

now we are in innsbruck, austria.

we took the ferry from bari to dubrovnik and cycled up the croatian coast, seeing a few islands on the way.

dubrovnik was awesome, awesome!!! we,ve been discussing our top towns and this rates either number one or two. staying with mike and his family was so nice and the walled town of dubrovnik was alive with people, restaurants, bars, little alleyways. we let our hair down here and went our a couple of times, spent some money for once whcih was very refreshing.
spent about 5 days here then started heading north

we cycle along this penninsula to orebec which was insanely mountainous. croatia in general was prettz crazy in that department. each day there was the customery huge climb but the climbs a lot easier than in italy, i think cos the heat wasnt as intense and often a sea breeze cooled us. so after orbec we took a short ferrz to the island of korcula. the town of korcula was fantastic, small walled town. the island was reallz prettz riding as the roads were alot smaller. biking along the coast of croatia is a little crazy for traffic.
we stayed at this super remote campsite at the tip of the island and walked down to this cove that had such amazinglz clear water as was always the case. swimming in really deep clear and cold water.

took a ferry to split were we took a room and wandered the town. lots was going on, music and free traditional food stalls. cant beat that.

leaving split was ridiculous. hardest city to leave traffic wise. citys are not made for cyclists.

then a big push up to zadar. head down and do the ks. pretty coast line but the road a little too busy to want to savour it. took a ferry to the island of losinj. the biking here and on the island of cres was amazing. the best biking in croatia. had a super narly storm one evening where we were intensely studying the tent for rips, drips, bendy poles. next morning there were broken tents, one neighbouring family disappeared in the night. prettz crazy. tent held up prettz well.

cycled north up cres then took a ferry back to the mainland where we fortunatelz met another couple of cycle tourers. they had come from slovenia and austria and told us of the inn river cycle path that they really rated. so we got into pula, dumped the ferrz to venice idea and took a train from rijeka to strazburg.

excellent decision. so nice to have a change. its cooler, its cloudz, there are mountains and the cycle paths are amazing. we are in cycle heaven at the moment.

we had a few days in bavaria on this crazy network of cycle ways which we got lost, found again, lost, found again. super enjoyable but not verz productive distancewise.

now we are in innsbruck and have 2 or 3 more days in austria before we cross to switzerland. reallz enjozing the czcling and looking forward to the end. very happy!

hope everzone is well

love nicki and ross