Woke up early to even more rain! We decided that as much as we wanted to see Slovenia this was just ridiculous as everything to do there involved trekking in the mountains, which would have been dangerous in weather like this. It wasn't letting up and already our camp was a mud pit and all our clothes were wet. When you have no where to get dry solid rain is just crap. So we left and headed south in hope of sunshine. We'll come back to Slovenia in better weather. Slovenia is small with really good roads so it wasn't a huge drive to Croatia- but it was very pretty. We had lunch in a lay by on a lovely mountain road. We came to the border crossing, which had passport control as Croatias not EU, and of course we pulled over and searched. They had a measly search through the van and said they were bringing the sniffer dogs. They said the reason the they had stopped us was because Petes pupils were small and he must be high. Haha! Pete got a bit pissed off with them and said 'no, the reason you pulled us over is because we've got long hair and you think we're hippys'. I told him to not start arguments and they decided we were free to go. We had no idea really of where to go. We have a whole month to chill in Croatia before we meet Petes mum so didn't want to rush south. The only thing I knew about the north was that my friend Maisie once went on holiday to the island of Krk (I have a postcard at home) so we headed there. There was a toll bridge over and the island seemed very wierd- all trees with one road through the middle and no houses anywhere. We came to the town of Krk which had alot of no camper signs and four star campsites everywhere, so we drove on. By the way it was still raining but as we came to the coast of the island we could actually see the edge of the cloud- which we hadn't seen in days- so we had some hope of sunshine. We gave up on trying to find anywhere to free camp (it's illegal here and carries heavy fines) and found a lovely rustic site far away from Krk town. The toilets were quite far down the hill but we were on the edge of the sea with a stunning view of the other islands (or the mainland- we're not sure) in the distance. And ontop of that we are surrounded by wild sage and fennel- so much so that you can smell it all the time- and lovely wild flowers, like a meadow. The funny thing about this campsite is that it was called, on our receipt we got, a 'naturist campsite'. I thought it might have been an English mix up until we saw the no clothes sign at the entrance. We'd found ourselves a nudist campsite! Anyway, it was far too cold and rainy for any of that so we had dinner and retired to the van.
1st June
The sun is out!!! Not only is it sunny, it is hot hot hot! We went down to the campsite beach which is built into the rocks with concrete- not that idyllic but the water was very blue and lovely. We decided to go for a walk around the campsite, past lots of nudes (we still had our clothes on) and climbed around the rocks to find our own little bay. Pete got into the spirit of things and went for a nudey dip. We sun bathed and relaxed and generally enjoyed the weather. Spent the whole day just chilling. Lovely.
2nd June
Gorgeous weather again. We went for a walk out of the campsite, which turned into a bit of a hike as there is only one road around the hills and cliffs. It was very worth while though as we spotted a secluded beach at the bottom of the cliff and managed to find a path leading down to it. Beautiful white pebbles and turquoize sea. Chilled out here for a while reading and had our picnic lunch. Enjoyed the walk back to camp where we saw hundreds and hundreds of white moths coming out of their cacoons dangling on oak tree leaves. Pete had his mind blown by all the insects (including dung beatles and beautiful butterflies) and the plants around us! Another wonderful day.
3rd June
Woke up early and packed up ready to move to Cres island. Got the short car ferry ride across and drove south through the pine forests. Headed to a town on the west coast called Martinscica and found a huge campsite on the beach with lots of shady spots to camp. It was really stunning. We were camped almost next to the beach this time as well! Walked down to the rocky coast and found ourselves our own little private beach by climbing over the rocks. Perfection. It was even complete with our own rock to jump off. Sun bathed and swam all day. in the evening we went to the shop on the site and bought ourselves some snorkels.
4th June
Another day relaxing and reading our books. We walked along the coast a bit more, clambering over the rocks. Jumped in the water and did a bit of snorkelling in the crystal clear water. Saw little fish and starfish and loads of sea urchins. For dinner we had our first barbeque! They didn't sell much meat in the little shop but we got mince meat and made our own burgers. They were great. Definitely feeling like a holiday!
5th June
Went back to our own private beach today and did some more reeelaxing! Pete found some beautiful shells whilst snorkelling and noticed that when he dropped one all the fish come up and try to eat it thinking its food. This gave him the idea that we might be able to catch a fish if we did this with a hook. So we ran back to camp and made tiny hooks from pins and put them on a line. Tried a few times to get a fish- the idea worked but they were cheeky and kept taking the food without getting caught! It was fun anyway.
6th June
Decided to move today and explore Cres some more. We drove all the way to the bottom (actually another island called Mali Losinj) and did a big supermarket shop. There weren't any particularly pretty campsites or beaches that we could see so we drove back up the road and found a nice site just outside a town called Cunski. The beach was not quite our own private bay but still pretty. Getting boring to read i know... but we chilled again all day! In the evening we had wild rosemary and lemon marinated butterflied chicken on the barbeque and it was amazing. Stayed up and drank lots of beer and wine.
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