153 – Thinking of leaving…no you don’t

I love it that my body puts me to sleep when I’m ill. I slept through my alarms, had a monster 10 hours and woke feeling great.

The plan was to walk the pups on the park and then head south into the Tatra National Park. Well the first stumbling block was that the places I’d flagged to visit had no road access – these were evidently longer hikes than the pups could cope with.

So we went back to Weinkle Cafe, for a coffee and I did more research. Mark is still bemused how long it takes me, but I read blogs, guides, reviews, ask forums and google to try and ensure we don’t accidentally miss a stunning vista, UNESCO site or quirky treasure. Coffee drank, and Slovakia planned out, we had lunch and were ready to go.

…nowhere…the van was dead…a flat battery. I guess we haven’t driven much this week but we hardly use any power and it’s meant to run off out solar powered leisure battery, so we are still confused how it’s happened. True to our different personalities, we try two different approaches, while Mark tries to get through to RAC, I’m outside in the carpark asking strangers, via a mix of charades, poorly pronounced polish and English if they have jump leads. Several people come and look, 1 has leads but we don’t know where to put them, and then a lovely old gentleman who spoke no English spends ages with me – calling his son, asking in a restaurant, shop, calling taxi companies…and finally he says a taxi will come in 10mins to jump start you. I was so thankful, and he was happy I’d be ok so on he went.

Mark came out really angry that RAC had refused to come as wrong type of policy, I said not to worry all sorted…and then we waited…and the taxi never came 😞 (most krakow taxi services have 2* reviews on Google so they might not be the most reliable). Meanwhile Mark had checked our policy documents and we were covered, so was having to email proof to the Europe RAC office, who then had to argue with the UK office who had listed our policy wrong on their system.

Long story short, we were stuck in the van until 5pm when RAC finally rocked up and charged the battery. It is a 2.5hr drive to the Tatras and its meant to be stunning scenery so once it got dark we pulled into a minor road and will try for a spritely start in the morning.

Not the best end to a wonderful time in Krakow, but there are definitely worse places to be stuck.