When people think of Croatia, they usually think of sun drenched islands, the warm Dalmatian coast and the stunning beaches around the country. They don't usually think cold temperatures and SNOW! Like lots of snow. Maybe 10 cm of fresh powder type of snow. Yesterday when we arrived in Rakovica, about 15 minutes from Plitvice Lakes, it was fairly dry. This morning, we awoke to snow everywhere! It was all over the car, all over the roofs, all over the lawns and ...

We got up early this morning ready for the 5.5 hour journey to Croatia - 5.5 hours doesn't seem long for Aussie standards but it is for European standards. We stopped a couple of hours into the journey to get our vignette to drive in Slovenia as the journey from Italy to Croatia also went through Slovenia for a bit. A fine for no vignette is €150 so we were onto it. As we were driving, we munched on our delicious takeaway pizza from the night before for...