Having covered the best
part of 1,000km in four days (three actually if you forget the miserly 60km
progress we made while trying to leave Turkey) and 400km ahead of us to reach
Croatia we decided we were due a cruisey day.
Just after 8:00 the
camping ground manager hand delivered croissants we had ordered the previous
evening. As we ate our breakfast there was a mass exodus of a convoy of 14
Slovenian registered camper vans. Each had a number displayed in its
windscreen, they formed up in numerical order and set off. The camping ground
was eerily quiet, all that was left was us and a Danish registered caravan and
car.
I hadn’t had a shave or a
haircut in ages and took the opportunity to do both while Jane went for a
shower. She returned saying the facilities were great but care was needed with
the showers because they were triggered by a sensor and it was easy to start
the thing running while getting undressed.
I met the camping ground
manager as I walked over for my shower. Without any prompting he said with the
benefit of hindsight he had made a mistake and wished he had never had the
shower sensors installed. He showed me to a shower for the disabled and said we
were to us that, there was no sensor and there was a lot more room than in the
other showers.
We drove Smarty into
Strenska Mitrovicia retracing our route of yesterday along the bank of the
Danube before crossing it into the town. There we found a well-stocked
supermarket that had virtually everything we needed except ice for Jane’s ice
bucket challenge and boxes of tissues for her runny nose. The bill came to
5,801 dinar for a basket of shopping, we thought again that Serbia needed to
take a hard look at the value of its currency.
Back at Mabel we had a
Greek salad for lunch and then relaxed reading on our Kindles. Jane was feeling
less than ideal and decided to lie in bed and read.
Early evening I cooked
Jane a cheese omelet while I made do with some nuts. As I finished cooking
there was a flash of lightning and I stowed our chairs in the garage and wound
the awning in. Shortly afterwards the storm broke with very heavy rain while
lightning flashed and thunder rumbled around us. We felt very sorry for the
occupants of two tents that had been pitched late afternoon, that couldn’t be
much fun at all.
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