A quick Hello from Croatia

[Stompy]

Hey guys, thanks very much for the warm welcome and kind words, much appreciated by all here

 

It has been an interesting, busy and eventful year and quite an experience so far.

 

My place is about 50km (check me out with me euro measurements!) east of Zagreb in a little place called Novaki near Dubrava..... It's funny how many Brits I talk to who were here in Yugoslavia's and later Croatia's rather troubled recent history but not so much recently, especially inland where we are.

 

Anyway a few pics......

 

The first time we saw our future house ( Nov 2011, minus 9 degrees that day )

 

 

A pic from across the road (dirt track) in the summer with Sam my pooch having his daily cool down swim

 

 

View across our fields.....

 

 

And a sunset shot out the back....

 

 

It's all changed so much now but a life times worth of work ahead..... but it's the best decision we ever made.

 

Thank again for all your warm welcomes, look forward to joining some of the other threads.

 

Cheers for now guys

[NFG]

Hello,

 

Welcome & well done, we moved to France 3 years ago, no regrets at all.

 

Im sure life will be challenging but rewarding in many ways

 

& on Monday mornings you can let out an enormous fart & enjoy a few more minutes before starting your day!

 

Bon Chance

 

N

[Stephen Blair]

Wow that's cracking!

[Tommy_B]

Excellent thread. Went to Croatia a few years ago on holiday and loved it. I'd go back tomorrow! Really looking forward to seeing more photos. All the best. Tom

[born2trot]

I'm just along the road from you in Vienna Spent my summer holiday touring about Croatia and Sarajevo both very interesting and beautiful places .

[explorer arb]

Stravo! Drago mi je stompy, i travel in the Balkans ALLOT (my avatar is from when i was in the dinaric alps on the serb/ bosnian border), what felling experience do you have? if you like maybe i could stop by and give you a crash course?

 

so long as you have two tree's hammock distance apart and don't mind me stopping for a couple of days id be delighted to show you some tricks of the trade. I work both climbing in the uk and as a trainer.

 

i'm next out in the winter (mid feb to march) but will be out again at the end of july for a month or 2.

 

email me at [email protected] if your interested!

 

Do vidjenja!

[Stompy]

Thanks for all the lovely comments guys.....

 

explorer_ arb - Bok, kako ste? Hvala za poruku, učenje jezika polako, ali to je teško.

 

I've not get a massive amount of forestry experience but can get a tree on the deck safely, nothing compared to the skill of the guys on here. Always willing to learn new skills though, especially like to learn some climbing basics.

 

We can do better than somewhere to string up your hammock if you fancy popping by for a few days, our door is always open to visitors and my good lady cooks up some fantastic grub. And there is always plenty of our homemade Rakija, šljivovica and Crno Vino on tap

 

My woodworking workshop is set up here if you fancy a few days of crash course furniture making as a skill swap?

 

Anyway I'll swing an e mail your way in a couple of days mate

 

Pozdravi

[Eddy_t]

Welcome to the forum, would you mind popping up a few pictures of the contra?

 

 

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[Stompy]

Welcome to the forum, would you mind popping up a few pictures of the contra?

 

 

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Sure, only got the ones from the advert at the mo.....

 

 

 

 

Seems to be alot of Contra's 090's and 070's for sale here.....

[bobh]

Welcome to the forum, looks like a great place you have there.

Let's see some photos of your furniture making as well