1/9/11 Drive to Opatija

The lake above Krka Falls (See 1/1/11) where we stopped for lunch.

Today was a travel day, which had a few iffy moments. Our bus was fine, but the other one had a flat tire and got started an half hour later. We took the coastal road until we had to head inland to get to the restaurant above Krka Falls. The weather was reasonable and the sun even appeared for a while around noon. We had a couple scares with the bus. At one point, going up hill on the coast road, the bus just stopped and the driver couldn’t restart it. He and Vivi got out and walked to the back, both on their phones. The driver tried to restart and walked to the back again a couple times until it finally worked. Later, it happened again, but he was able to pull off the road before it went dead and it started up again sooner. Since it is Sunday, getting a replacement bus seemed unlikely.

We got back on the coastal road for the rest of the trip to Opatija (pronounced oh-POT-tee-ah) – slow going, but more interesting than the highway, which we will take tomorrow. There were some lovely sights along the way, and we stopped every 1.5 hrs or so to stretch.