A snowy morning in Croatian pine forests.

We had snuck the previous night behind base in this mountain top village and found a open space in the pine forest to camp and set up for our first adventurous night in the roof tents….. Wild style. The views that morning made me think of Scandinavian pine forests such tall, full trees all well spaced and with deciduous trees scattered throughout. The snow had fallen thickly even on the extreme ends of the twigs. My self and Jonny rose first and took the opportunity to walk along the road seeing the odd tracks of earlier visitors.

We pushed on to Zagreb at this point we had concerns about our web site important to make sure we had enough footage, photos and script to entertain our donator’s and friends watching this charity ride to India. So Sparks and Jonny decided they wanted to catch up with that side of our mission whilst Michelle and I decided we wanted to visit the Plitvice lakes otherwise known as the falling lakes. A world heritage site and a place I had heard many good things about so that night Jonny and Sparkie hit a hotel and myself and Michelle drove 100km’s plus to Plitvice.

The next morning we found the entrance to the national park and we only had a brief time there as we where due to catch up with the others at Zagreb at about 11am. A steep slope zigzagging path led down to crystal clear water. Many lakes pouring into one another with some spectacular waterfalls of all shapes and sizes. The place truly lives up to it’s reputation as the most beautiful national park in Europe and I was well pleased we made the effort to go and see it. We got some great shots and lived life on the edge trying to negotiate the wooden pathways which where extremely icy and not British health and safety standard at all.

At Zagreb we gathered again all updates done and some fresh footage from the falling lakes to add then headed to the eastern motorway roughly aiming at Sofia.

We ran out of light and decided to find a town for food inadvertedly pulling over at a boarder town to Bosnia and dealing with Bosnia a lot sooner than expected. Once though the boarder with our freshly purchased green card insurance we brought some food.

So now it was time to find somewhere to sleep I was with Jonny in the front car and we decided it would be a good idea to take one of the many side roads to the small homes and when we saw someone outside ask if it would be ok to find somewhere to put up our roof tents on their land and sleep the night. The first person we pull up next to was an old Bosnian lady who did not speak a word of English. Our next victim was a young lad cleaning a car and listening to techno…. (bonus) His name was …… and he asked his father if it was ok if we parked on his land then whilst we were attempting to put up the roof tents they insisted we eat and sleep in their home.

Love it!!!!!