Kat & Mat's big bike trip
Day 43 Lopar
Today we're heading onto the first of a series of islands over the next five days.
This morning we crossed an impressive bridge onto Krk, then stopped in a shady churchyard for lunch. It's a beautiful day. There's a bit of traffic on the island, but it's all pretty laid back, and we took backroads for some of the journey.
We were passed by a convoy of seven vintage Mercedes convertibles from Germany, and then one more on the back of of a tow truck. Felt bad for those last guys.
We got the ferry terminal just as a different ship was loading, the bar was chaos as everyone rushed off to their cars all at once. Over the next four hours we saw loads of ferries coming and going, until ours.
We met three lovely cyclists on the boat, all Germans. Two guys were camping/using the warm showers website and heading down the coast like us; they planned to take a ferry to Pag tomorrow which, according to our research, either does not exist or doesn't allow bikes. Hope we're wrong! The woman only started cycle touring since she retired but has been all over the world.
The ferry ride was 80 minutes and brought us into the tiny town of Lopar where we only had to cycle a short way to reach our apartment. Our host Zora was waiting and spoke to us in German despite us telling her we don't speak it. She seems very nice, from our gesture-based conversation about pedalling, eating and sleeping.
Love, Kat & Mat x
On the day
👀 5 yellow cars
💧 3 cups of tea
💧 3L water
🍕 1 banana
👀 1 power station
👀 1 shipyard
👀 8 vintage mercedes
💧 1 espresso
🐾 3 lizards
🐾 1 very friendly cricket
🐾 1 stick insect
🗺️ 1 ferry
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