A group of singers who sounded like the Red Army choir kept us awake in the early hours of the morning and local workman took on the insomniacs’ shift by making a hell of a noise long before any normal person would have been out and about.
Montovun one of the real jewels of Istria,with its truly magnificent position above the surrounding countryside and lovely old buildings.
Set off down to the valley below the town and soon starting climbing up testing slopes towards Karojba and Pazin. A real shock to the system at this early hour. Over the next few hours it was really a question of ups and downs as the tour operator had warned us.
Eventally descend to the valley floor and the site of the Jezero Butoniga reservoir.
Picnic near the dam wall in idyllic surroundings lulled into a false sense of security as there followed a truly brutal cycling/walking climb northwards towards the city of truffles, Buzet.
We arrived at the top of climb suffering variously from nausea,burning limbs,sore backs and all manner of other afflictions. Only marginally less gruelling than the first day’s Groznjan climb.
However, once at the top we were rewarded by a long descent, at speed, down to Buzet.
The Hotel Fontana adequate but hardly up to the standard of the Hotel Kastel at Montovun.
Quick pizza dinner then back to the hotel only to find that there is a Croatian party going on 2 floors below rooms,and an incredibly on at that.
I’m finishing this blog at 10.45 pm and the shindig is still going full bore and sounding more and more like something from a Butlins’ Holiday Camp.
So it’s goodnight from me and goodnight from them!
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