Arrival & bike assembly
2017年5月31日, クロアチア ⋅ 🌙 17 °C
Left a strangely sunny Manchester airport (sometimes it is!) Throughout the flight across there was the feeling that the interesting views were all on the opposite side. Not so on the descent.もっと詳しく
Ice cream for tea.
2017年5月31日, クロアチア ⋅ 🌙 18 °C
Short cycle from the airport & accommodation was easily located. No-one around though. Eventually a little old lady wandered down & we eventually established I had a reservation. She phoned someoneもっと詳しく
More views of Dubrovnik
2017年6月1日, クロアチア ⋅ ⛅ 21 °C
Cracked on nice & early to avoid the worst of the heat. That was the plan at least & some pretty evil hills aside managed to make Dubrovnik in decent time. A few hairy photo stops were necessary toもっと詳しく
Polite Frenchies & peaceful roads.
2017年6月1日, クロアチア ⋅ ⛅ 22 °C
Much as the coast road up from Dubrovnik took in some gorgeous scenery, it did suffer from pretty heavy traffic to the point where the bike helmet was used! Lorries were consistently trying to get asもっと詳しく
Dolphins & Croatian smugglers
2017年6月1日, クロアチア ⋅ ⛅ 22 °C
For all the early start & pit stop in Ston it was still a case of the final 18 miles to Trstenik in 2pm heat & a 6 mile climb into the bargain. Love these cycle trips. Thankfully the last 10 provedもっと詳しく
Stupid steepness, beginning, middle ...
2017年6月2日, クロアチア ⋅ ⛅ 23 °C
Hate cycling to deadlines... in fact all deadlines. Anyway with 2 different ferries to catch, if I didn't want to be kicking my heels for hours waiting I had to make the 9am ferry from Trpanj - 13もっと詳しく
Overtaken by butterflies.
2017年6月2日, クロアチア ⋅ ⛅ 23 °C
Another hurried cycle to Dvernik - 18 miles in 2 hours & again massively misjudged the effort needed. Another 40 mins to kill - early lunch looking out over the beach. All this hurrying & not evenもっと詳しく
Swim & the sun goes in.
2017年6月2日, クロアチア ⋅ ⛅ 22 °C
While Hvar is very unspoiled, this means there are very few places of any size & what there was either didn't have shops or the owners couldn't be arsed. Equally the road through the island wasもっと詳しく
No steepness @ the end just dirt tracks
2017年6月2日, クロアチア ⋅ ⛅ 22 °C
The flat profile of the last 10 miles suggested a nice easy run in. No such luck - 2 miles from home the road ran out. Turn round & add at least 5 extra miles. Grin & bear the dirt track. Happily theもっと詳しく
Round in circles literally.
2017年6月3日, クロアチア ⋅ ☀️ 26 °C
Much easier cycle to the ferry - just a couple of miles, then the small measure of a couple of hours to get to Split. Managed to bag a spec by a plug so could do stuff without eating battery. How sad!もっと詳しく
Detour frenzy.
2017年6月3日, クロアチア ⋅ ⛅ 23 °C
With all the tooing & froing the main portion of the days cycle had yet to begin - a gentle 45 miler. Popped by a cycle shop which was closing as I pulled up. That lack of luck in mind I decidedもっと詳しく
For the last time, I'm not German
2017年6月4日, クロアチア ⋅ ⛅ 24 °C
Definite case of chalk and cheese. Yesterday the resident soundtrack was buses hairing past; today was the endless twittering of songbirds. Much improved. Unfortunately the last 4 miles yesterday hadもっと詳しく
Don't cycle through old town Mostar.
2017年6月4日, ボスニア・ヘルツェゴビナ ⋅ ☀️ 28 °C
The initial impression of Bosnia revolved around the common place business activity - namely scrap car dealers. Must've been 10 in the first few miles. Following that it was mass snakeacide - 4 runもっと詳しく
Hawkers still in bed!
2017年6月5日, ボスニア・ヘルツェゴビナ ⋅ ☀️ 21 °C
Usual early start & by prior arrangement a breakie goody bag had been left for me. A massive barm cake, various toppings, fruit & a chocolate pudding. Happily sat outside scoffing & admiring the viewもっと詳しく
Not bad as swim specs go.
2017年6月5日, ボスニア・ヘルツェゴビナ ⋅ ☀️ 26 °C
It was always in my plans to try & visit Kravica Falls. With now following the cycle route through S. Bosnia it would have been rude not to - that said it was another 10 miles or so, not allowing forもっと詳しく
Puncture frenzy (well 2)
2017年6月5日, ボスニア・ヘルツェゴビナ ⋅ ⛅ 25 °C
Then began the slog to Ravno. The theory was that since there was little or nothing to do in Ravno, the journey was more important. That's all well & good but if you're tired, bed is the thing. Evenもっと詳しく
Mechanical issues only much worse.
2017年6月6日, ボスニア・ヘルツェゴビナ ⋅ ⛅ 23 °C
And the day all started so well - a lie in of sorts, a relaxed & hearty breakfast on the lawn and some gentle climbing until the bike route started proper. Ambled through the next village of sorts - aもっと詳しく
No-one in Dubrovnik does bike repairs!
2017年6月6日, クロアチア ⋅ ⛅ 26 °C
On arrival at the hostel, the priority was to try & get my bike in some sort of working order in order to get me to the airport. That meant finding a bike shop - surely there must be one in a city ofもっと詳しく
Quiet(ish) Dubrovnik
2017年6月7日, クロアチア ⋅ ⛅ 24 °C
Led astray by Ivan the bike guy, I awoke a little groggy. Having repaired my bike, I couldn't face feeling rude again so round the corner for some beers and some interesting conversation. It wouldもっと詳しく
From the sublime to the ridiculous
2017年6月7日, クロアチア ⋅ ☀️ 25 °C
Just as the wall walk was coming to end it, was clear how busy things were becoming - queues of people stretching along the wall. The plan was to now take the cable car up Mt Srd, admire the views ofもっと詳しく
A final ferry
2017年6月7日, クロアチア ⋅ ☀️ 27 °C
Post pie, things had cooled down somewhat but the thought of cycling the hilly route to Cavtat didn't really appeal. Down to the harbour & hop the ferry to Lokrum Island. Any number of other cruiseもっと詳しく
Back where I started
2017年6月7日, クロアチア ⋅ 🌙 21 °C
So the small matter of getting out to Cavtat with only front brakes working. First things first - back to the hostel, change, repack & locate (unlikely) brake blocks taken out. Thankfully the hostelもっと詳しく
The final act.
2017年6月8日, クロアチア ⋅ 🌬 24 °C
A mere 3 miles cycling & a 1pm flight. On the face of it that leaves plenty of time. In reality 30 mins getting there; dismantling bike & check in 2 hours prior to departure equalled leaving at aroundもっと詳しく
