Tuesday, 30th June.
There's not a lot to write about today...it was a day of travel, approximately 180kms from the Krka National Park to the Plitvice National Park. We drove most of the way on the motorway,
going through five tunnels, four of which were quite small and one about 6kms long.
There was a noticeable change in the scenery when we emerged from the final tunnel, still rather rocky but with much more vegetation than we've been used to seeing, so a welcome change. Along the way we saw Caffe Bar "Boris" which we found amusing so took a photo,
bought a watermelon from a small roadside kiosk and when we stopped at the motorway services to have some lunch, three young children of similar ages to our own grandchildren appeared from nowhere and invited themselves into the van. Although we didn't speak the same language, we got the message that they wanted the watermelon and anything else they could scrounge so we sent them on their way. There were no parents in sight but we'd seen the children walking up to what appeared to be a rough campsite behind the services so we think they were perhaps gypsies. Our concern was that these children had no hesitation in entering a vehicle belonging to strangers and there was no adult about to look out for them. We arrived at the campsite which is 2-1/2kms from the national park entrance, in the early afternoon and plan to spend tomorrow in the park having been given tips and recommendations by Mireille and Mark, who visited today after arriving yesterday.
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