Leaving Business Club.
Business Club was rather a strange place. Accommodation, but not really a hotel. It was a lovely, cool room though, with air conditioning which didn’t blow directly onto us. It was good to catch up with a shower and hair wash, after 2 or 3 days of very hot weather and wild camping.
There was a small courtyard garden and a large car park. There was a hose pipe for watering the garden, so we made good use of it. Refilling our water tanks and Dennis gave Poki a well needed wash.
The mornings drive was uneventful. Quite busy traffic in places through towns and villages. It was extremely warm again. 36 degrees. We stopped at a large Lidl for more supplies. We didn’t really need much, but It has been a while since we saw a familiar supermarket brand, so now we have enough to last us a few days.
Crossing into Slovenia
The old border buildings were still in place but as we were crossing from one EU country to another, there is now no actual border. We found a quiet lane shaded by trees and pulled over for some lunch. Slovenia is pretty and the villages neater than Croatia and Serbia. Possibly many of the crumbling buildings here may have been caused during the Croatian War of Independence fought between 1991 and 1995.
Later in the afternoon the scenery had changed and started to become more alpine. We are in mountains again. For quite a while we were driving beside the Drava River. This is a major tributary of the Danube. I read that water levels in the Danube and the Drava are at their lowest levels for 200 years. Cruising on the Danube has been disrupted as the ships are unable to dock in certain cities.
Drava River
Camping Olspur
We decided we needed to look for camping and stop earlier, as it is very tiring while the weather is so hot. I found a place online which took us over a border again into Austria. It is a well established campsite, but with strict regulations. No English was spoken, so we had to get by with my German. This was fine at first but got complicated, when after we had completed the check-in procedure and I had paid (40 Euros!), I was handed a list of regulations in English.
When I read that tents could not be put on the grass, but must be on gravel, I tried to explain that our tent attached to our vehicle and we would prefer it to be on grass. It is a family campsite and all members of the family are involved. The wife took us to our allocated site. We were debating how we could position Poki and have the tent on the grass. The husband then came along, not understanding the situation. He wanted us to be in a different position, because of the direction the sun rising in the morning. After a lot of not understanding, eventually he took Dennis on his buggy to show him another site. This was grass and under some trees, so much better.
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