Thursday 8th April

Thursday 8th April........Slept well, warm and cosy, must have been very cold in night--condensation in tent and can see our breath...Toast and tea, and on the road for 9.30--warm and 15degrees, the scenery is epic, unbelievable!!!! Todays agenda is breakfast in Austria--------lunch in Slavenia and tea in Croatia........Sandy the satnav has surprised me and taken us the other side of the mountain to what I thought was the route!! so now it's 11's in Italy....Got out and made a big snow ball, then walked down to river. Then stopped at 1000metres at a fantastic lake with fresh salmon and wild trout......Note to Top Gear---try and take the Predil pass and take fishing gear.......................12 o'clock Slavenia...we are high up 1186metres .....now going down slowly, stopped for cup of tea in layby with portable toilet...3 vans turn up full of portable toilets and then a lorry with gravel for layby, there are more people in this layby than we have seen together for ages!!... As we drive you see a portable toilet every couple of miles, listening to radio Slavenia---lot of english music--language sounds latin based, we stand a chance! 2.10 Italy again, warm, sunny 24 degrees. Down to Trieste--saw the sea----3.40 Slavenia again-----4pm back in Italy--getting annoyed with satnav now.....looking for somewhere to stop---Croatia will have to wait till tomorrow.