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After a last coffee at the bar and saying the unevitable goodbye to Joško we are on our way. First we go to the supermarket at Nin where we left or lost our wallet and it has been found, waiting for us. Lucky us.
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Elisabeth & Teije2004-03-06 12:27:59
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Zaton - Döllach
After a last coffee at the bar and saying the unevitable goodbye to Joško we are on our way. First we go to the supermarket at Nin where we left or lost our wallet and it has been found, waiting for us. Lucky us.
Then comes the long and slow road along the coast. It is less than 300 kilometres, via Rijeka to the Slovenian border, but it takes us almost 6 hours.
We pass Slovenia in half an hour and we enter Italy near Triëste. Taking the highway we very soon find ourselves at the feet of the Alps and the mountain massif rises before us. The temperature is much lower now and there are lots of clouds.
The massif suddenly rises from the plains, there is not a slow increase in height. The first tops are already about 2000 metres high. Narrow, steep and twisting roads bring us to the border with Austria, on the Plöcken col (1360 metres high).
Before Lienz we enter the Möllvalley. This valley leads to the Grossglockner, the highest mountain in Austria. Although we have been in the Alps before, we keep being impressed with this mighty and impressive sight.
Around 6 we arrive at the campsite at Döllach. We are still walking in a t-shirt and the sun sometimes can be seen, but it is much colder than we are used to. A sweater is not enough and Teije hides in the car which is still warm inside and Elisabeth into the tent. It is 15 degrees Celsius, at most.
Outside is is cold and moist with many musquitos around and we go to bed early, but in the tent it is also very cold. We aren't used to this kind of weather, anymore. Not after the last sunny and hot week in Croatia. We are getting spoilt.
Wednesday, July 9, Grossglocknerstrasse
After a very cold and moist night on a deflating airbed we wake up tired, under a bleak sky. The airbed we had to pump up at night but it doesn't seem very serious. But it doesn't feel good to sleep on a wet and
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