It was a lovely peaceful night and we wake to glorious sunrise. Around 10:30 we set out in Mary*Lou for the Plitvicke National Park only 4 miles down the road. N+G go separately on their motorbike. We meet at the carpark, get coffee and sandwiches then buy our 100 kuna tickets to the park. The whole park covers 295 sq.km and apparently represents karst hydrography, with lakes and cascades forming Tufa rock and Tavertime formations. As we walk the grit and ro...

The 'music' is still thumping above the traffic so we get ready and set off as soon as we can. We have about 30 miles of tollway to Korovac before taking the D1 south. It's another beautiful ride through small, alpine-like towns and hilly woodland until our lunch stop just outside Slunji, in a layby overlooking a river a few hundred feet below. A short distance brings us to Rastoke a small village nesting at the bottom of the valley and surrounded by wate...