Bliss Ventures

I didn’t have a great nights sleep as I was woken by horrible stomach cramps...food poisoning! I think it was probably caused by handling Bliss’s raw chicken 🍗 and not washing my hands properly! Another lesson learned, again!
It was a slow start in the morning as I was feeling rubbish, my stomach was churning and cramping still. About midday I was finally ready to get going as it was too warm to just sit around all day. We head off and were soon driving around another large turquoise lake, I was taking it steady as I really wasn’t feeling good. All of a sudden Ivy’s satnav came up with a warning ⚠️ saying loud and clear “Slow down, accident ahead 150m.” Not a warning we’d ever received before. So I slowed Ivy right down and proceeded with caution, expecting to come across some kind of obstruction. There didn’t seem to be anything at all…. But then out of nowhere it happened!
Next thing I know, the car behind us overtook us at speed and swerved sharply inward as it passed Ivy’s bonnet. Once in front of us it slammed its brakes on! I in turn had to slam Ivy’s brakes on and swerve abruptly to the left in order to not hit this car which was now in front of me. We came to a stop just centimetres from a collision.
The car had strangely broken down and wouldn’t start now. After my heart recovered to a less rapid rhythm I reversed a little, pulled out and drove around it. We were right on a tight curve in the road and we needed to move so we weren’t causing an obstruction. We moved around the corner and parked up feeling a bit shaken by our near miss, and also a little spooked by the fact that Ivy had warned us to slow down for an accident ahead when there wasn’t one, but at the exact spot where she had said that there was we very nearly had an accident ourselves!! And would have for sure if it weren’t for that message. It was a bit of a strange coincidence at the very least and if I were more superstitious I would say someone from the spirit world was looking out for us… but I’m not so coincidence it has to be.
We sat for a while next to the turquoise water of the lake before continuing on our way. We arrived at the first park up that we had chosen but it was a tiny fenced area with a resident van already there. We squeezed Ivy in and got out with Bliss to have a look around, in the resident van was a very large and seemingly angry German shepherd that was barking ferociously at us. It was not a friendly welcome so we thought we’d try another spot further down the road, but that quickly turned into a quagmire of mud so we abandoned the idea of that particular spot too. As we left two large livestock guard dogs chased us off. Not going well this is it!
We got back on park4night and headed to the next spot not too far away. It was a windy, steep road that took us uphill.
We ended up settling at the top of a random dead end road in the end, that was near a treetop adventure park and winter ski slopes complete with chair lift. Quite high and much cooler which was a nice relief.
We discovered when we went for a walk that it was a pretty wooded, grassy place with lots of wild flowers, Darren picked another little posie of flowers and presented them to me romantically. We had to tread carefully as there were great big sink holes amongst the trees that we couldn’t see the bottom of, not that we dared to look too closely. Somewhat less romantically, Darren announced that he could easily get rid of me down one of those holes and no one would ever know or ever find me! 😂
Unsure of whether we’d be allowed to stay for the night we settled down, and thankfully we had a peaceful, quiet evening with no one but the owls for company.Leia mais