Category: Croatia

What is on the other side?

Post author By Cindy
Post date November 26, 2024
13 Comments on What is on the other side?

How can I be better emerged into a mountainous landscape when I am dropped right next to it and I simply cycle back home. The best of both worlds, so off to pack these old panniers (post 1).

A huge cross marks the end of the climb, a lone shepherd waves me ‘dobar dan’. As always I am hugely curious what comes on the other side. And what comes takes me by surprise: a seemingly flat landscape that stretches far, edged with peaks and a single road in an almost straight line passing through. There’s hardly any traffic and the prospect of being on a plateau high up after climbing makes me jumpy and excited.

Tags Banja Luka, Barcs, Dabrac, Daruvar, Dinaric Alps, Donje Ravno, Gradiška border, Kupres, Mrkonjić Grad, Poljanci, R-41, R-415, Sehovci Gornji, Strojice, Suhova, Vbras, Virovitica

Croatia

Pag

Post author By Cindy
Post date October 31, 2023
11 Comments on Pag

Pag stood out in my mind as stark beauty. I remember that when I was there it reminded me of the Pakistan desert. Geo brings me 70 kilometer from where the ferry will erupt me on its bleak bare flanks while he himself drives on for 300 more kilometers. Not exactly ‘exploring in each others vicinity’ but I desperately want to be on Pag while Geo does not. The island with no trees I so much look forward to. The island existing of fences. Two things my mind mixed up and made its own Pag in my recollection. A week later, when Geo picks me up and we drive away from the peninsula in to the hills I meet with surroundings I much rather had wanted to be in.

Tags Baške Oštarije, Gospić, Karlobag, Kick scooter, Kickbiking, Lun, Novalja, Pag

Bosnia Croatia

Bosnia

Since my late 30’s I started to desire my own home but it was a mild desire. Traveling always had the priority, until I reached the 45 and it became obvious I spend more time in camp spots than on the bicycle. Now that Geo and I have an own home, including 4 cats (accidently 3 too many) I find it remarkable that the pull to get back home and water-bath my tomatoes is rather strong.

Is the limit based on being-away time before this homely pull kicks in, or is it the destination that we set which has been reached?

Tags Being together, Bosnia i Herzegovina, Driving a van, Drvrar, Europe, Igman ski slope, Međugorje, Mostar, Neretva delta, river Neretva, river Una, Road tour, Sarajevo, Stari Most, Tiny house on wheels, Van life

Croatia Slovenia

A bit odd

Post author By Cindy
Post date July 30, 2023
10 Comments on A bit odd

Suddenly I am less than a meter away from other people. Hordes of them are flowing past me and I am among a melange of holiday makers, culture seekers and youngsters going for adventure in Zagreb. Glad that I washed myself properly at the warm water basin before I mingled. Glad as well that I was born in 1972 where countries were still very much distinguished when I traveled through them.

Tags Abandoned places, Being together, Camping in nature, Camping in the wild, Combo travel, Getaways, Grad Podsreda, Kickbike, Kickbike Crossmax, Kickbiking, Podsreda castle, Short trips, Test, Tiny house on wheels, Wild camping, Zagreb

Croatia Hungary Slovenia

Beyond the Drava

The difference with a bicycle to a kickbike is that I can make more kilometers and can reach further out and therefor see ‘far-flung’ beauty in Croatia. That’s where I am heading.

Tags Bak, Cycling in Croatia, Cycling in Europe, Dobrovnik, Donja Visnjica, Drava, Drava river, Gola, Mura river, Novo Selo na Dravi, Ptuj, Renkovci, Segesd, Varaždin

Croatia

Croatia II

I cycled from Dubrovnik to Makarska; Croatia turns out to suit me well. Soon it will turn out to be my favorite country in the whole of Europe.

Tags Cycling in Croatia, Cycling in Europe, From Croatia to Italy, Istria, Pag, Pula, Rijeka, Šibenik

Croatia

Croatia I

I travel so tremendously much, yet I am partly blind! Not only I cycle for 3 years now, I have traveled from A (Afghanistan) to Z (South Sudan; which start with a Z in Dutch language). I thought Croatia a kind of average destination for mass tourism.