The Trip

It’s here! The blog post you’ve all been waiting for, the thing that pushed me into starting this blog. The trip!

As some of you know myself and Joe recently drove to Croatia and back. That’s right, we drove to Croatia. In a car. There is so much to talk about with this trip that I’ve decided to break it down into separate posts so that I can go through everything. Tips on packing – things you’ll pack and most definitely use (cork screw), things you’ll pack and hope you won’t need to use but do (Imodium), things you’ll pack but never use (yoga mat). Actually that’s a lie, I used it for sun bathing.

Anyway maybe it’s best to start with how it all came about. As with all great ideas it started off as a throw away comment. A friend originally booked an Air bnb for 8 nights in Croatia. For personal reasons she thought she might not be able to make it so Joe being his lovely self told her that if she couldn’t make it we’d buy it off her. Just to put her mind at ease. She was obviously going to make it.

She couldn’t make it.

It actually came at the wrong time for us. We’d just bought a new oven and been stung with a back dated bill. We had around 6 weeks so save as much money as we could, book accommodation in 5 different countries, work our what to do with the cat for 2 weeks, fix the car that had developed an oil leak and work out how to drive from Hull to Croatia without air con and stay sane.

It all worked out fine. We saved as much as we could (we’d eat dust if it meant 2 weeks travelling around Europe), the cat went to a cat chalet (she’s very fancy) and we swapped cars with Joe’s Mum who thankfully has air con and great car insurance.

Now there was just the small task of getting from Hull to Croatia in 3 days…