We woke to ☀️☀️☀️ for the first time in 6 days; although it felt like more!
After a hearty breakfast produced by our lovely host, we retrieved our fully charged bikes from the garage and set off on a long downhill, exhilarating ride, back across the river and into Croatia once more.
Leaving Slovenia
It was great not to have bulky rain capes flapping around. We were then set on a climb to indirectly follow the motorway towards the coast.
The route we chose then took us away from the main road and through some pretty lanes, past an amazing number of sink holes, caused by water and very porous rocks below ground.
This hole was about 50 ft deep although the photo doesn’t illustrate it too wellAnother sink hole being used as a small football pitch; at least the ball stays confined!
Our route took us back under the impressive motorway
What a great place to cut your winter firewood and store it in the dry!It was starting to get very mountainous. The red line points to a village church we subsequently stopped for lunch.
There were some steep climbs and also some fun, fast descents. I managed to break the 40 kph speed limit in a couple of villages😁. 40 kph seems so fast on a bike, but so slow in a car. On one fabulous downhill stretch I made a new PB of 56 kph😁
I think this must have been a tractor sale. Lots of chaps all chatting and looking at old tractors!
Lunch by the pretty, noisy church The church that we’d seen from afar.Even more mountainous still; the batteries were doing us proud but were rapidly tiring, like our legs.We stopped for a drink at 2500ft under a laden apple tree, and managed to charge my battery behind the bar for free👍🏼 (Sue’s still had enough power remaining; not sure why🤔)We decided to try some more small roads and cycled past these unusual cattle.
The small road became very “off road” and took us over some muddy pipe laying works.
We found a route back onto tarmac, and continued to climb to nearly 3000ftAfter a fast section of downhill we arrived at Delnice, still at 2500 ft, so pretty chilly. A fully equipped apartment for only €45! I like Croatia even more, especially as we’d experienced our first dry day within its borders.
Euro Vélo Route 6 