Hi Dan,
Your adventure sounds amazing.
Yeah – the overnights are quite tough. We do 3 hour watches at night and catch up during the day which seems to work. Unless something goes wrong and you both have to be up at night for some reason. But there’s no denying that you basically feel knackered.
Ju
Every year on the 15th August high in the Velebit mountains the death of the Virgin Mary and her acceptance into Heaven is commemorated. The local Tourist Office in Starigrad tell us about the festival and we are keen to visit, lured by a trip into the hills and the opportunity to watch a local festival.
We are without transport and the location is approximately 20 kilometres away and 900 metres up in the mountains. We try our luck at hitching a lift, an easier option to walking! Almost immediately a car pulls over and a young couple inside agree to give us a ride. We hop in and exchange names. It turns out by chance that Goran and Anna and their Jack Russell Tara are heading to the same festival, they have an invite from the campsite owner they are staying with.
As we get chatting we find out that we…
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Domini 