Day 37

The Chief made us a great breakfast and now that the sun was shining we set off for the coast. We called past Damir for another cuppa on our way through and thanked him for all his help yesterday evening. There were still piles of snow everywhere and plenty in the surrounding fields and hills, but the roads were clear and salted.

Right after leaving Damir's coffee stop we entered a 6 km tunnel through the mountainside. After that we left the main road and made for the coast through some beautiful sweeping mountain roads. We were descending for about half an hour, so must have been quite high yesterday!

We hit the coast at Serj and the sea was stunning - flat as anything with the road running just a couple of feet away from the waters edge.

This road continued for almost exactly 100 miles to Zadar, our stop for the night. We've been looking forward to the Croatian coast (it looks stunning from the air and is definitely in our top 5 most looked forward to areas) and it didn't disappoint.

We stopped for lunch at Jablenka, a picturesque town with a ferry service to a nearby island. The waitress didn't speak a word of English, but didn't appear to speak a word of anything else either and was highly amused by us for some reason!

We continued on in the sun with a great road surface, hardly any traffic and stunning views of the sea to the right and the mountains to the left. Definitely our best road yet.

Made it to Zadar today and found our apartment okay which is backing on to the lapping shoreline. Anyone want to go quids-in on a little Croatian place?!?

155 miles today..