Split. Finally

We endured a mammoth 36 hour journey..........

Events are as follows:

leave Prague with a healthy car and spirits high.
Get stopped by undercover police car 3 hours into our journey for a random check.
Told to buy a sticker for 8 euros.
We dont.

Continue until another fuel stop is required at which point the princess is making a funny grating sound.....
The Edward is rung to break the news to us that actually the clutch is broken.
He advises we stop at the next Citroen dealer.
Upon asking we find one 2 km away from the fuel station.
We carry on past it........TO CROATIA!! hindsight is a wonderful thing.

We reach the Croatian border. The car is searched for 30 minutes and our passports checked.
Then the officer asks for a registration document for the car.
We look for an hour.
It isnt there.
"No Entry without original document"
Jono's dad is rung yet again... he sends it via email.

At this point we decide to print off a colour copy of the registration. We drive for two hours to find a hotel open with a colour printer. We find one. Happy days!

We print it off. On our way to a different border (2 and a half hours!)
Get there.....it all looks good until they look at the computer - our car is banned from entering Croatia through all borders!
We return to Rog Slatina in Slovenia. Jono sleeps in a hotel room (2 in morning and fed up). Jamie and Tom brave it in the carpark.

This morning we drove the squealing Princess to a Citroen dealer. 460 euros later..... hmmm.

We get a taxi accross the border, feeling like illegal immigrants.
Then we eventually found a car hire company in Zagreb.
Jamie drove us like a bat out of hell to the hotel.

Finally we have reached paradise. If you want to feel jealous..... http://s3.labs360.com/lemeridien/lav/threesixty/lemeridienlav360.html


Although our journey, quite obviously, was shit.

Jamie is in the Turkish baths while the others (Annabel, Rob, Philly) are all in the infinity pool. Tom is sorting minor hotel niggles out in the room. Beaut.

An afternoon nap is required by us three..before we go out.

some minis we encountered.....

laters,

J, T, J