Dugi Rat, Croatia: 15 August 2016
Day 46


On the road by 7:40am to start our 12 hour drive to Split.  Today we saw Poland, Czech Republic, Austria and Slovenia on our way into Croatia.  We experienced significant delays by a wreck early on in Austria.  We tripped across agility dog trials  somewhere in Austria before Wein (Vienna); we stopped just to take a break.  We ran into rainy-nasty weather as we passed over the Alps. I slept through reportedly spectacular lightening but I saw plenty of evidence of fields flooding when I did sit up and pay attention.


When we arrived in Dugi Rat it was close to 10pm.  Stipe, our host at our AirBnB met us to direct us to the flat.  He and his family live on the top floor and his parents live on the beach side of the property.  We'll be in a new unit that has been available only about one month.  With five separate units of varying sizes, they can have up to thirty guests at one time.  We got most of our treasures out of the car before we sat down with Stipe for a welcome beverage.  His father makes a local brew (Orahovica) that was similar to the Italian Nocino made from green walnuts but this one did seem to pack an extra punch.  We talked for an hour or so before Justin and I headed to the beach for a moonlight stroll.  I didn't want to wait one more minute to see the water... to hear the waves lapping...to dip my toe...to BE at the beach.

 It was warm when we were in Paris and warm one day in Wales, but the thermometer pegged out at 86'F as we entered Croatia.  Let' see what tomorrow holds...