Day 38

We left Zadar later than we had hoped and did a quick tour of the town. It had an amazing sea organ which used waves to force sea water into cleverly engineered steps at the waters edge, this generated a mixture of organ sounding notes. The bigger the wave, the bigger the noise that came out.

We then picked up the coast road south, enjoying the scenery as we had done the day before. Stunning views of some of the 1000 islands within close proximity of the shore line. The weather was a bit overcast and we then hit a number of small towns which delayed our progress somewhat.

Lunch was at an odd restaurant we found on the side of the road which had an eccentric Croatian guy serving us. The food was not great and as we were the only customers in there we sort of got the idea most of the rest of the local community avoid it for that reason also! We stepped back outside into the pouring rain which unfortunately then followed us for a good few hours, it was 4pm by this stage and the rain only delayed our progress further!

As it started to get dark we still had a daunting 100miles of twisting mountain roads left before getting to the cheap off season holiday apartment we had booked!

We eventually arrived at the apartment at around 10pm and were greeted by an extremely helpful guy called Mario. He showed us around and then booked us a taxi (as we were a bit out of town) to take us to see the end of the Champions League matches be played that evening. We managed to get a lovely pizza and catch the last 20mins plus extra time and penalties in the Arsenal/Roma game.

Then it was back to the apartment for a well earned sleep!

255miles covered today.