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Title: Croatia
Post by: Farjo on 30 June 2013, 06:49:53 pm
Becomes an EU country tomorrow, which presumably means that we can ride there with 3rd party insurance under a normal UK policy. Anybody been, or planning to go on their bike? Looks like my kind of country - a capital city, lots of beach and bollocks to countryside :lol
Title: Re: Croatia
Post by: steeeve66 on 30 June 2013, 07:12:52 pm
I've been to Dubrovnik, lovely place and really nice people. We hired scooters when we out there and I kinda regretted it - driving standards are pretty poor, so be careful. Also stayed at Mljet, again really pretty but be careful...
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Title: Re: Croatia
Post by: Slaninar on 30 June 2013, 07:22:53 pm
Perhaps the most beautiful seaside. Worht seeing. Lots of nice beaches, islands. A bit more expensive than Greece I think, but very very nice.
Title: Re: Croatia
Post by: Phil on 30 June 2013, 07:52:50 pm
I was thinking of going there 2011 but my insurance company wanted extra dosh just for 3rd party cover. This year its already included. In June 2011 I got as far as Slovenia and met a couple of blokes who had gone there and said is was a fanastic ride down the coast but very hot.
Hopefully I'm going in September. Plitvice lake district is also supposed to be very nice.
Title: Re: Croatia
Post by: Slaninar on 30 June 2013, 08:39:58 pm
I was thinking of going there 2011 but my insurance company wanted extra dosh just for 3rd party cover. This year its already included. In June 2011 I got as far as Slovenia and met a couple of blokes who had gone there and said is was a fanastic ride down the coast but very hot.
Hopefully I'm going in September. Plitvice lake district is also supposed to be very nice.

Plitvice is a breathtaking place - definitely worh visiting.

Heat? Mesh jacket, mesh trousers - anything else is too hot. Get a warm layer for crossing mountains, or just in case, but by the sea it is hot. If there was no fear of falling, you could ride in a t-shirt easily.
Title: Re: Croatia
Post by: sadlonelygit on 30 June 2013, 08:52:00 pm
the signs warning of minefields were a little disquieting and the empty villages with bullet/artillery riddled walls was also worrying.
the road from senj up into the mountains is fan-bloomin-tastic, as is the whole coast road. last time i went there you didn't need a helmet on a m/bike, hopefully that will have changed.
istria is a)lovely b)full of bloody italians c)tourist trap because of b
Title: Re: Croatia
Post by: Slaninar on 30 June 2013, 09:04:07 pm
the signs warning of minefields were a little disquieting and the empty villages with bullet/artillery riddled walls was also worrying.
the road from senj up into the mountains is fan-bloomin-tastic, as is the whole coast road. last time i went there you didn't need a helmet on a m/bike, hopefully that will have changed.
istria is a)lovely b)full of bloody italians c)tourist trap because of b


Istra is the coolest place - the smallest percentage of nationalists. Really nice cool people. Good mixture of northern Italian and Slavic mentality.

Pula to je raj (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkHm1Ua7mwI#ws)
Title: Re: Croatia
Post by: alan sherman on 01 July 2013, 10:29:34 am
Sounds like a great idea, if it wasn't for boy / wife / house I'd be up for it.

Its been a while since one of your big trips.  Can we start calling you Bilbo? 
Title: Re: Croatia
Post by: flyboy on 01 July 2013, 04:48:19 pm
 Hi

Went to Croatia in 2011 fantastic place . This was one of my favourite roads, wife took the video with her camera sat  on the back lot of wind noise but not  bad I think.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=w2_AzO8fL5w
http://www.bestbikingroads.com/motorcycle-roads/motorbike-rides-in-croatia-/continental-croatia-including-/jadranska-magistrala--croatia-_5b1179.html
 
Title: Re: Croatia
Post by: goldfazer on 01 July 2013, 07:00:48 pm
Cropped in on Dubrovnik a couple of weeks ago on our cruise. Lovely place, worth a trip up the cable car to havce a cuppa looking down on it.

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