60 hours – Bucharest – Croatia and return
We just came back from Greece and Oxygen Team has prepared its backpack for a short trip to Croatia. Neither the 2600 km road, neither the early 3 am wake up call didn’t stopped us to accomplish our plan – checking the route for our trip to Croatia.
Main actors: Andrei ( the driver), Diana ( the copilot), Grey Fury ( the car). It’s done – we woke up early, we got into the Grey Fury and we are on. The Romanian road were less crowded than usual and the few kilometers through Bulgaria would have gone unnoticed if we haven’t forgotten to buy the crossing license. I didn’t get it – way to we need it if we fly over those roads? Is is necessary for this also? 🙂
At the Serbian border, the same customs officer that we’ve met 2 months ago checked us without any enthusiasm at a speed of 10% of our Grey Fury. But we didn’t care…
After 14 hours of driving like crazy and after eating the best Parisian schnitzel& Cordon Bleu, we have accommodated at Korona Kamp, at less than 10 km from Plitvice.
Second day (we woke up at 6:30), full of kindness we take with us 2 Polonaise guys and we go towards the famous park.
Here we went by boat, by train which is actually a bus, we take photos in high speed, we run through the tourists, we smile and we salute everybody, we learn to say Hi in Japonese Kon’nichiwa, we jump over the old grandma teeth (wooden bridges) and in the end we were very proud that we did everything in 4 hours and we have left further towards Grabovac where we have entered the mountain trail.
We have encountered here a landscape that can hardly be described in words, where mountains with less than 1700 m look huge, on a road more adventurous than Transfagarasan, where for 10 minutes we forgot about our purpose and listening music out loudly we recorded and enjoyed everything.
The Dinaric alps are no lower in beauty than their brothers from Austria or Italy. Maybe the lower altitude is not their plus, but the landscape is beautiful. One thing is for sure – not water on the route, we can find marks on the trail, but not on the good direction and certainly these mountains are not friendly during storms.
At night, we stayed at Hotel Lucija in Posedarje, listening Italian music from the ’60. Our plan was to get some good sleep, although our wake up call was planned for 3 am and party of our new friends seemed longer than our patience.
The journey way back seemed longer…with fewer gas stations, with 1 good meal. We reached Bucharest, tired at around 20 and we both got towards 2 different directions – Andrei towards Covasna and me towards Popesti because the next day I have to go to Sacele.
That’s the spirit: 60 hours – 30 hours in the car, 12 hours mountains trail, 3 hours meals, 15 hours sleep. We shorten the distances and we distend time – the rest is the spirit!
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