Long day to Sinj, Croatia

Leaving Posusje on mostly B roads with little traffic. Almost 80km to ride today. Mapy has mostly been a great tool for your finding but occasionally progress movers faster than the map updates. Today we are on a brand new wide unstriped road that could become an A road but it's currently down as a C road. There is no traffic! Some of the strange things we see, the pavement stops suddenly and we ride gravel for a few km. No wonder there's no traffic, the road also doesn't have a destination that would warrant enough traffic.

We enter a valley that could have been set in the 1800s. It is completely natural except for a few older homes, it's wonderfully quiet. It's hard to believe that places like this still exist. I'm glad for it.

We reach the border, and once again we are told this order is for local traffic only. Today we cannot go through but as of June 1st everyone can go through. Mmm too early by 3 days. The border agent and is super friendly and we joke around about camping here for 3 days. He tells us we should go to Livno where he is from to go see the wild horses.

We set off to the other border crossing which really isn't too much out of the way. We take a break to eat something and 2 locals come walking over offering us water. Then they tell us that the border crossing we're headed for is closed because there was an accident and the guard house got destroyed so they closed the border. But no worries they know a road that goes across without agents and we can sneak in to Croatia.

Once again we are crossing a border illegally. This is a border from a non-European Union country into the EU. So this is really a big deal. The syrians were crossing here and they temporarily had some agents trying to catch them. That's we are guided to that hidden road, we get a history lesson on this lost valley. The people have moved out because there's no economic opportunity. They all moved away. During the wars there never was any fighting within 30 km. It's truly a lost corner.

The long day got longer because of this border crossing, and we're pretty tired coming into Sinj. We have two days here to rest.Læs mere