The coast road

We decided to head back onto the Istrian peninsula which was where we first stopped on our way down through Croatia. At the time we found it very busy and very hot, however we are now more in tune with both the number of people and the temperature and given Istria seems to have invested fairly heavily in bike routes / tracks we decided to spend a little more time here on our way back north.

Just like riding at home!

The cycling is nothing too extreme which is good given the heat, in fact it reminded us of some of the cross country routes back home (farm tracks and field boundaries) – we even saw sloes and blackberries in the hedgerows.

As mentioned the campsites are very busy, the last one predominantly with Germans. Witnessed a funny thing at the washing up area with all the German guys doing the washing up whilst the women sat on the wall drinking shots of snapps, and it didn’t take long before Sharon was invited to join in!

Products of the region

As our supplies of rum (kindly donated by Gareth) have diminished we have purchased ‘products of the region’ in the form of orange snapps to provide our evening nightcap!

Other local products include a Toblerone copy, which has the top of the triangle lopped off presumably to overcome the Swiss copyright on triangular chocolate and a Eccles cake-like pastry (only better).