As I’m sure is the case for many other cycle tourers…what looks to be a particular type of road on a 1:1,000,000 scale map is often very different from the reality! Having such low resolution maps has certainly added some spice to my journey thus far…and once again, the map threw up a curve ball!
We probably could have stayed in Senj last night – a nice little coastal town. But we thought we could do better! We had visions of a beach bar, azure blue sea and a nice breeze. By 7:30pm, we were happy for anything that resembled a coastline (the road south from Senj goes inland and climbs fairly consistently for a good 15km). By 8:30pm, we were happy with anywhere that wasn’t craggy and that had a breeze.
By 8:45pm, we were camped near to a mountain, had very little breeze, and were pretty sweaty to boot! Pretty though the location was…I was soon desperate for the sea – particularly because wave after wave of midges concertedly destroyed my effort to sleep under the stars!
Take a look at the video to see where we stayed (as usual, I’m only able to upload my mobile phone video – so you’ll probably have to turn up your volume to hear the audio)
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