First stop...Croatia. Blake and I set off at a lame 4.30am from Carey Gardens Studios in Battersea to Gatwick Airport on Monday 4th October 2010 - with no more than a backpack each, 2 hours sleep and adventure on our minds! Issue one..there's always an initial glitch, ours just happened to be our mini cab driver and his apparent death wish. A rainy, early morning probably didn't help the situation but when one doesn't check blind spots, ones car may generally eventually collide with another car or object!...Thankfully we didn't...missed by an inch. Slightly shaken, we arrived at the airport and went through our usual migrant strip search with ease. Landing in Dubrovnik, we were met by Kate, the other half of Ivan of "Villa Ivan" - where we were to call home for the next
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