Lovran to Cres

Today we ride south along the coast to Stipani to catch the ferry for Cres.  We don't go right along the coast but up into the hills away from the coast, which means more climbing.  Along the way we go through the village of Moscenicka.

Village square in Moscenicka.

Mike, Damijan, and Max all in Canada jerseys

The road from Moscenicka down to the coast.

We have about a half hour ferry ride over to the island of Cres.  Once we hit the island it is immediate climbing and it lasts pretty consistently up to the ridge at approx. 450 meters.  We had some fantastic views from the ridge that can't really be captured in photographs, but I took a couple anyway.

Mike, Terry, Alen, Connie, Ed and Valerie along the Cres island ridge.

Connie and Valerie along the Cres island ridge.

At the end of the ridge we have a late lunch and descend into the city of Cres.  It is a beautiful little seaside village where we will spend 3 nights.  We are staying at the hotel Kimen, a 10 minute walk from the village of Cres.  It is a large resort, filled with tourists (mostly German) but a nice place nonetheless.  Now that we have left Istria, things have gotten much more touristy

At dinner that night we celebrated Bernie's birthday!!  She seemed to enjoy her big birthday, I know that the rest of us did.

Bernie at here birthday party.

Mike, Bernie and Diane at Bernie's birthday party.

Tomorrow we have to get going early to shuttle down to Losinj.