Valamar Camping and Zip Line Pazinska

It has been a bit of a wet day and we are still umming and ahhing about whether to go to the lakes at Plitvice in a few days time so we decided to head down the coast a bit first because that promised the best weather.

We are now at Valamar Camping Ježevac on the island of Otok Krk for two nights - hoping for some sun tomorrow and a bike ride around the coast

Very little sun today unfortunately.

We stopped at Pazin on the way here, thinking that it had a castle on a hill that we had seen across the valley as we drove south the other day. Turned out we were wrong. There is a castle but it isn't on a hill and we decided to take a short walk around it and have a picnic lunch on the way. Unfortunately, about 0.5km into the walk we reached a bridge that is undergoing repairs and the workmen wouldn't let us cross it.

So we went a different way.

This is a very long winded way of saying that we came across a zip wire with two members of staff and no punters. Too good an opportunity to miss for one of us! It turns out that they normally take groups of six but were happy to take me (Andy) on my own. The drop was 100m, or so they said. It was pretty good and much less scary than I expected.

The campsite is another big one but very quiet at this time of year. Finally got a little sun this evening. Not much... but there was a reddish sunset so hopefully better weather tomorrow.Read more