Ljubljana to Kracow

Yesterday was a very long day as evidenced by us writing the blog this morning rather than last night at 11.30 pm. We started with our last training at Tacen at 8.00am although it was 30 minutes later before we could get on the course as there was a gang of surveyors working doing lots of measurements before and after it filled. The drop still proved very challenging and everybody had to roll at some stage although not as bad as one Slovenian paddler who ended up going down the most of the shute backwards.

Deahna on Tacen

Patrick is in there somewhere

 The weather was still very hot and it was  heartbreaking to leave the water and climb in to the vans for the long trip to Poland. Martin and Pavel did a great job driving ,translating and navigating. The view from the van slowly got more industrial as we left Slovenia and went through Austria to the Czech Republic. Lots of wind farms, power stations, motorway interchanges, road works and tiny villages on the hills in the distance.
The scenery was often limited by the motorways high walls and of course we were trying to take the quickest route to Poland - 12 hours wasn't very quick ...... Martin was magic navigating us here without an error.

Pavel on the long drive

Deahna, Callum and Haylee

Following Martin's crew 

the square in Sigmund Freud's home town in Czech Republic

heading for dinner in the market square Czech

 We travelled for about 3 hours through Czech Repulic and stopped at a town called Pribor for dinner - the translation of this town is Cutlery .... and it happened to be the birthplace of Sigmund Freud.

Dinner 

Back into the vans for the last push to Poland - slow bit of the trip as there were lots of road works and on some stretches of the motorway there were many sets of traffic lights - Pavel shot through a few orange ones to try and keep up with Martin who was on a mission .....

Arrived in the dark to the Hostel and Hotel Kolna which is right on the course - haven't been outside yet to look at the course but we can hear it from our room ...... down to meet the kids for breakfast.