On the 15th of August we arrived in Croatia. This was our first border crossing since arriving into France - Croatia has recently become a member of the EU, but it isn't a part of the Schengen area. We were told if you stay at the smaller 'mum & dad' caravan parks in Croatia, you can get quite good value for money, so we decided while we were here we would work out the area we wanted to stay in and look for caravan parks as we drove. As stressful as I foun...

Our first stop in Slovenia was at a caravan park that had (of course) a thermal pool complex attached to it. We stayed here for two nights and spent a whole day at the pools cooling off after a couple of very hot weeks. From here we went to the capital of Slovenia - Ljubljiana. We didn't spend a lot of time in Ljubljiana, we had a drive through the town and just spent one night. Worth mentioning though was the pool complex next to the caravan park. It was a...

Budapest - we loved Budapest. It's such a beautiful city with different architecture - there's a lot of Turkish influence here as they ruled Hungary for about 140 years from 1541. Budapest was originally 3 cities - Buda on one side of the Danube River, Pest on the other and the third city, Obuda (Ancient Buda) were all merged in 1873 to become Budapest. It is considered to be the city of baths boasting to be the only capital city in Europe to have thermal sprin...

Our first stop in Czech Republic was a town called Olomouc. I'd read in the lonely planet that it has a lovely old town and was a hidden gem. So we arrived just after lunch and went for a look around the town. I don't know if we got here on a quite day, but we found everything to be pretty dead, a lot of shops were shut, there were only a couple of tourists walking around and we also came across a few drunks and drug addicts….two were passed out in the middl...

On 12 July we had a drive into Krakow and found that a popular way to visit this city is on golf carts. So we hopped on one and had a drive through the old town and Jewish Quarter. After that we had a walk around the main market square, it's Europe's largest medieval town square, measuring 200m x 200m with a 15th century town-hall. In the centre of the square is the old cloth hall which is now filled with shops selling a lot of locally made souvenirs - many di...