The Launder's big adventure

Monday 18th June
We can’t afford to stay at Terme Catez any longer as it is very expensive but we still have some things we need to do in Zagreb. There is a campsite 40 minutes drive along the motorway, however we spot on the map there is one just north of Zagreb in the Pirode park this area looks more our scene. We don’t have any information on it but are confident we can find it. After 2 hours our confidence is waning but after exploring every road in the area we realise the campsite is not actually in existence. There is another on the map to the east of Zagreb and so we head for this one, this too is a phantom, so after spending 4 hours on the road we return to the original Zagreb campsite annoyed at wasting a day by driving when we didn’t have to.

The campsite is not the best we have stayed at and is right next to the motorway so is somewhat noisy. There is no security; with the gates always open and no wardens, people can come and go as they please and Jon goes into prevention overload. As we later learn out this was a sensible precaution as 3 nights later a British couple wake to find a man inside their camper, helping himself to their valuables, they scare him off but only after he has taken their laptop, digital camera and a wedge load of cash. When he tells us this makes me think about the blind in the boys bedroom that shot up in the early hours of the morning, not thinking about it I just went in and closed it, but this has never happened before, was this just coincidence or had the man thought to have a look in our van as well? Anyway we are lucky that nothing of ours seems to have been touched and even the replacement scooter we left outside has remained in place.