25/08/2011 Day 16. Split Day 2 Woke up this morning at half 9 with a huge sweat on! It's wa boiling already. The lads had arrived back while I was asleep but I had a text from Dave saying he was lost but he found his way back. I got out of the van just so I could cool down and everyone else followed shortly. We headed to the beach! A dip in the sea would surely (I was going to write shorely, rubbish joke) sort us out. I entered the water with a cheeky back flip ...

24/08/2011 Day 15. Split. We set off at 8 this morning but first things first we had to empty the waste water tank. I was driving and managed to reverse it into a bush.. Woops. After that mishap we were away and set off for split. I drove for the first 200km and was ok brown alert because we had less than 100km of diesel left in the tank and didn't know where the merest petrol station was. We managed to get one with about 50km of diesel to spare. I was away then...

15/08/2011 Day 14. Plitvice Work up at 7.30 and headed to the bus at 8. It arrived around 8.10 and my god, it was a total free-for-all. There is no concept of queuing, elbows were everywhere, I was shocked! We waited for the second bus and waded onto that one. After about a 10 minute drive we arrived at the entrance to the national park. 80 kuna admission for students, bargain! Aaron had to pay 110 the sucker. We headed for the shuttlebus inside to take us to t...

22/08/2011 Day 13. Budapest - Plitvice, Croatia Set off around 9 this morning. Nick had a right fight to make the sat nav work but it managed to get us going eventually. The sun was beaming again but it wasn't too bad being early on. We were faced with a 6 hour drive but luckily I got shotgun for the last 3 hours and got a hand in the air con. We stopped after crossing the border for Aaron to swap driving for Nick. I had a little walk around the lay by in the go...