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Two Kiwis. husband and wife doing the eurotrip.



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Lake Balaton

Published: August 11th 2007Europe » Hungary » Central Transdanubia » Lake Balaton
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August 11th 2007

Woke up to another cloudy day , alot of campers were pacing up as the storms were meant to contuine for the next cople of days. We have already had one thunderstorm and as i am writing this another is on the way. No muh to report still being lazy.... read more



Lake Balaton

Published: August 11th 2007Europe » Hungary » Central Transdanubia » Lake Balaton
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August 10th 2007

Woke up to a cloudy sky but still pretty hot. We were invited over to our Austrian neighbours to show as a snake slithering it was along the ground, just the ticket, we were on high alert of snakes during the day. The sun came out with intense heat, and we dipped in the lake, matt was kindly told he could borrow a windsurfer from a Hungarian couple staying at the campsite, and he pottered around the lake, then later trying his hand at fishing. We have been pretty inundated with campers coming up to the van and steering at the number plates and asking us were are from, word got around camp as a lot of people came up to us and started talking about NZ . The Hungarian man who’s windsurfer matt is using ... read more



Lake Balaton

Published: August 11th 2007Europe » Hungary » Central Transdanubia » Lake Balaton
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August 9th 2007

Leaving the hotel we made our way to campsite not far about a forty minute drive on the side of Lake Balaton. The area is stunning the lake is shalow and very murky , but everyone seems to get in and enjoy it. We discovered the lake had in house snakes , which only eat mossies for dinner , i made a decision not to hang around too long in the lake . We cilled out in the sun , meet the neighbours and enjoyed a day swimming , reading.... read more



Slovenia-Hungry

Published: August 11th 2007Europe » Hungary » Central Transdanubia » Lake Balaton
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August 8th 2007

We left Slovenia driving through Austria into Hungary. It was a pretty long day, arriving on the shores of Lake Balaton in Hungry a very beautiful lake were tourists flock to. We decided to go for a hotel break and found a great one on the shores of the Lake. We enjoyed a night of pampering, spa, sauna, pool and a room slightly bigger than that of the camper with a bathroom attached. We walked to a local restaurant to taste the local dishes and headed back to the hotel with extremely full tummies.... read more



Croatia back to Slovenia

Published: August 11th 2007Europe » Croatia
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August 1st 2007

We went back to Slovenia to enjoy the beauty once more and spent 4 nights at our beautiful campsite, no cold water dips this time. few walks and matt managed to do a little more flying. Meet and lovely group of flyers and we chatted over a few drinks at the campsite bar.... read more



Croatia

Published: August 11th 2007Europe » Croatia
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July 20th 2007

We made our way to Croatia from Slovenia. Croatia has had a rocky history in the past, but is a stable now. We stayed at three different campsites in Croatia, didn’t make it as far as Dubrovnik, as we were enjoying the Adriatic to much. Croatia is beautiful, full on sprawling vine yards and fresh fruit stalls along the roads also selling there famous wine and olive oil. We spent 2 weeks just chilling, the routine was pretty much, get up, have breakfast, read a little and head to the sea, the temp was baking so by 12pm /1pm it was very difficult to remain sun baking, so off to one of the camp sites bar for a cold one and lunch under the shad of there umbellers. Played cards, a little more reading/sleep then back ... read more



Soka River to Lake Boheme

Published: August 11th 2007Europe » Slovenia » Slovenian Littoral » Tolmin
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July 18th 2007

We left our campsite on the Soka River to travel to Lake Boheme, getting there was a treat , we drove onto a vehicle train that took us through various tunnels and through the mountain range it was really strange as we went through the tunnels still sitting in the van, but enjoy breakfast along the way. The journey took 40 mins to reach Lake Boheme. We were recommended a camp site on the lake side but it was pretty crammed in so we discovered another along a river. We set up and had our first dip in the river it was oh so cold, but so refreshing as it was a scorcha of a day. We stayed a couple of nights , one night we had the fresh trout caught by matt in the river ... read more



Still Slovenia

Published: July 16th 2007Europe » Slovenia » Slovenian Littoral » Tolmin
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July 16th 2007

Same old , Same Old for the Flying gang , misus John , who was up early for his Hike, and Alex , Antje, Jeff were moving on to Austria for flying ,as the conditons here were to stable for them, For the non flyers that means that that they are not able to stay up for long periods of time and usually flying consists of a "top to Botom". Glen the hiker decided transport up today was the go , no hiking today. Lyds chilled , bit of washing required to be done. Afterwards Waterfall bound , found a track down to one of the waterfalls , where you couls get yourself in the water and right up to the waterfall , a place to bring Matt to and try and get him to ... read more



Mountain Hike / Flying

Published: July 15th 2007Europe » Slovenia » Slovenian Littoral » Tolmin
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July 15th 2007

The Gang of Flyers got ready for transport to arrive , altough Glen and Alex decided that they would hike up the mountain with their paragliders , brave men. Lyd got ready for the 3 hire hike , what a beautiful route , taking in the River , Waterfalls , Medows , Villages , and ruins with butterflys bouncing along the pathway by your feet, the heat pretty intense as well but a throughly rewarding walk. Matt again had a fly starting to enjoy again . We sucommed to a freshly made pancake round 5pm , Lyds opting for the same one , Matt going to the Meat and Veg one which got the tumbs up. Later that evening , Matt and I went on a litle walk to the River for a Cold soak ... read more



Slovenia

Published: July 13th 2007Europe » Slovenia » Slovenian Littoral » Tolmin
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July 13th 2007

Welcome to Slovenia. We have a passenger with us today , Glen from Christchurch New Zealand, he was competing in the Chez open. Glen is travelling with us to Fly in Slovenia and meeting up with his friend in a couple of weeks in Switzerland. Slovenia is just beautiful , it is stunning were we are. The camp site is located on the river "soka " which comes down from the Alps the water is so clear and the most amazing aqua colour just stunning. We may also think we have landed on the set of "Dances with Wolves" and Kevin Coster at any minute is going to be riding up on his horse to take me away for a life in the mountains- see photo attached , but reality sucks its "JOHN" from Oxford ... read more






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