It was the end of October already and we were missing the heat of summer. With a bank holiday in Austria we were choosing somewhere to go for a long weekend when I checked the weather to see a forecast for KRK in Croatia that was very exciting. Sunshine, no wind, 25°C, clear skies! Nothing to think about really.
Driving to Baška on a Wednesday evening in late October we thought would be easy but unfortunately the Slovenian roadworks cost us an extra couple of hours in tailbacks on the motorway so we were arriving on KRK island as the supermarket was closing at 9pm. A quick grab of the essentials for the weekend and we were being escorted out by the large security guard who was understandably desperate to get home and 45 minutes later and we were in Baška and it was now just past 10pm, so past our bedtime! Yes, we are early to bed people but we are also very early to rise people and enjoy the early mornings much more than the late nights.
Waking to the most incredible view being parked directly at the ocean is a joy and something we for sure do not take for granted as we had a just unbelievable park-up and the van did not move for the next 4 days!
With the forecast even better than expected we had four days of clear blue skies and temperatures of up to 28 degrees. It was summer again and we had an incredible time running along the promenade each morning in just shorts, hiking the coastal paths naked and enjoying quiet beaches, swimming in the ocean and bringing our fading suntans back to life. Something we really did not expect at this time of year. But a word of warning if your fiancé is an artist. Don’t fall asleep on the beach next to her or you wake up with watercolored painted nails.
The beaches were nearly all completely empty and I just lay in the sun all day reading and watching Leela paint and sketch and take a few dips into the fresh Croatian Ocean. The evenings were spent watching the sunsets, taking walks into town for some photography and just hanging out in the van watching the ocean only a few meters away.
A really amazing and unexpected few days away and on Sunday we were very reluctant to leave. But after another few hours on the beach and some lunch we were on our way home again. Back in Austria late in the evening it was zero degrees and we really were not happy after only 5 hours earlier we had been lying naked on a beach in 28 degrees.
Welcome to the Austrian winter for the next 4 months!
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