All my clothes washed the night before are not dry so have had to put socks and shorts in the security mesh around the camping gear and the tee-shirts secured and flapping in the breeze behind the bike.
Looking at the map I could see that the border crossing from Hungary to Slovinia was potentially complicated by the closeness of the Croatian border. Set tomtom for non-toll roads and a town just over the Slovinian border and then just watched which way it took me. OK through the unmanned border on a tiny back road into Slovinia, but then to get to the place I wanted to be tomtom tried to take me via Croatia !!
Given I didn´t think I had any insurance in Croatia I stopped in front of the border checkpoint and looked at the map, and I couldn´t see why it was taking me into Croatia. Turned around and just used commom sense and it was just a straight road to where I wanted to be to start the Slovinian "great motorcycle journey".
The route took me through Slovinia´s "wine route" and then roughly went south west staying fairly close to the Croatian border. It was a very pleasant journey through "alpine" like valleys and hills.
Slovinia seems very clean, tidy and organised, and the people seem genuinely friendly and smiling unlike the Romanians.
Decided to stop the night at Postogna and to do the caves and castle here tomorrow. Looked in the guidebook and there was a hostel in Postogna. Set tomtom to the address and arrived at a nice college that lets out rooms. The college is for forestry and medicine students ( I think as separate studies, not combined!!). I am in a 3 bed dorm, but there is nobody else in the room. Cost is just fifteen euro inc. breakfast!!
I will have to take the bike into another Suzuki dealer in Ljubijana for it´s 11,000 mile service. When I set off on this journey I thought I would have to get the bike serviced just once, but in fact I will need to get it serviced 3 times. The service interval is just around 4000 miles!! It looks now like I will do about 11,000 miles on just this trip!!
For those following with interest my digestive system, I can now confirm that everything is back to normal !! Yippee!!
More later
TOR
Glad to hear you are feeling better!
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