04/11/2025

We started the day by taking Poor Penny’s body to a vet for disposal. It keeps hitting us in waves. Both the old owner on Crete and the new one in Wales have been super supportive of everything we tried to do for her. Monitoring Flo, hoping she doesn’t go down with whatever caused it.

We came off the motorway on entering Slovenia as I can’t be bothered with a go box for over 3.5 tons. Very pretty. Every time I come back to Slovenia, I’m reminded why it’s my favourite country.

The main reason for coming here is to eat at Mak Restaurant. A complete barking rocker chef but amazing food.  We also had the paired wine tasting. €319 plus tip for 2 of us. Just fab. So fab, we will go back tonight!  Robyn’s fault!!!

Just realised I never finished the trip blog!  We had another, but different food and wine night at Maks.

Drove off motorway up through stunning Slovenia and then the Julien Alps and Austria. Slow plough had piled up snow either side of the road.

An overnight stop with Kerstin in Reutlingen.  Penny still not house trained. Pee on Kerstin’s floor. And we put most of the pee soaked rugs and towels through her washing machine.

We made such good time, we had 2 nights in Bergues to recover from long driving days.

Back in Blighty, mum cooked and then I dropped Robyn to her daughter-i-l.  But only after she helped me empty and clean Jez.   He is now on a forecourt near Chichester. End of an era … but we want to use the sale proceeds for long haul.

Maddy and Ben flew back to Crete with me and Jordan joined us for a long weekend.