On the road again..I can't wait to get back ....

Things have I have learnt on our drive today:

It is not advisable to sneeze when eating a banana; it makes a mess of the steering wheel.

I need to gen up on my Dermatology as Hazel was not happy with, “it keeps things in” to the question “why skin”

I can no longer hit the erhh herrr (s) in Billie Jean

Croatian Motorways are the best in Europe, as long as they sort the deep sub zero temperatures out.

Monster by the Automatic is pipping the Kings of Leon as best driving song.

You know when you have just watched a scary film and you are slightly twitchy, then you remember you had to get something from the car? Its 11pm, dark and cold. That feeling you get when you open the front door of the house and all your senses are heightened.  That was our senses on our drive on Tuesday, full on for 3 hours.

We made our break after 6 days in Rijeka, the forecast was much better, the wind was down but the motorway was shut as it crosses some BIG ravines. So we had to wind our way up the mountains the old way.  Keeping with the film analogy, imagine just as you bent inside the car, you heard a noise and then really bricked it. Senses on overload.  That was our washers freezing.  The washer tank was a slab of ice, despite the anti freeze in it! 

The land was a few metres deep in snow, the outside temps hovering around -12, before the wind chill, but 2 litres of antifreeze later, we kept stopping to splash the windscreen, (that tank was not going to thaw) we began to descend to Zadar where the outside temp was now a credible -5.  The van looks like an extra from ice road truckers but we are back on the coast. The locals in the bar we visited were memorised by the muted snooker on Eurosport and the Searchers played Needles and Pins, on the Hi FI. Great stuff.