Rastoke - Croatia

We took longer than we planned to get to our lodgings in Croatia as we were being careful with our wonky tyre although to be honest you wouldn't know that it's size was slightly different. Our lodgings in Croatia were  a few kilometres from the Plitvice Lakes and belonged to an elderly couple who spoke little English. They were very welcoming though and knew enough to get you settled in. The room was absolutely gorgeous and they had complimentary beer and wine in the fridge as well as tea making facilities, although it was only fruit tea available. The couple seemed to sit all the time on the porch so every time you walked in and out of the building you felt obliged to say hello, there wasn't much more we could say! 

As we drove towards our lodgings we passed through a lovely area called Rastoke which is also known as the little lakes, after we had settled into our room we decided to go back and have a look as it was too late that day to go to the Plitvice lakes. 

Rastoke is absolutely stunning, so beautiful it looks like a film set, too nice to just be a normal town that has evolved over time. It is full of lakes and waterfalls, with quaint old fashioned mills dotted around which originally took advantage of the churning water from the waterfalls to power the mills. A lot of these mills are now tourist lodgings but some are still working. 

It was a lovely evening to wander around. Parking near the falls is metered up till 6 o'clock at night but there are places within walking distance where you can park for free. 

While we were there David decided to look for a geocache which was on a lamp post on a bridge which went over a river. It was easily found being close to a religious figure at the side of the road. 

It was a magnetic geocache which was stuck to the underside of a  metal plate on the lamp post. As David grabbed hold of it , it slipped out of his hand plunged down into a tree, bounced and landed in the water and floated away , never to be seen again. Oops! That was not supposed to be happen.  Secretly, I thought it was quite funny, but now we had a dilemma, the geocache was no longer there for other people to find. Luckily, and I know you will find this strange, David had spare magnetic geocache tubs in the car, so he managed to replace it, saving the day. Hooray!