Day 18: 4/7/05

Well this morning started very well with everyone up by 7.30am and packed and loaded by 8.30am. Then we could eat our continental breakfast. Once we did that we split, the coaches and the kids went to the supermarket and Geoff and Farrah went to pay Robbie J's hospital bill which worked out to be 338kc which is = to about $12 aussie!

We finally got to leave Ceske Budejovice at about 11:30am for the exciting trip to Slovenia via Austria and the top right hand corner of Italy. The drive was fairly uneventful except for a traffic jam outside of Salzburg, waiting for two lanes to merge into one for the first tunnel. Cannot believe some of the distance we travelled in tunnels on our way down to Slovenia. Emmie draw the short straw when she lost at cards in the lead wagon, she had to navigate after we left the motorways and wound our way through the bottom of Austria into Italy and Slovenia. Only one wrong turn, a job well done Em. The drive down through the Soca valley in Slovenia was breath taking, scenery was magnificent. Once we arrive in Nova Gorica we realised that we could of caught the auto barn straight to Slovenia and walked one minute and we would be in Italy.

We arrived at the accommodation at about 8.30pm and had dinner straight away, but the team wasn't very fussed on dinner compared to what we have had the past few weeks. Then we got allocated our rooms, which were the wrong ones at the start then we got moved upper class and across the hallway to a much nicer sweet then the first ones we originally had been allocated. Then we all settled ready for a great and successful training session tomorrow sometime!

Cheers Farrah