first step is taken!

We got delayed with one day caused by to much stress about getting the right equipment, not enough sleep, Croatia beating germany in football - Zagreb was an inferno of noise from celebrating people that night - a huge rainstorm etc ( and now I will stop crying), but finally we made it out of the biggest city in Croatia.
Like I was afraid of allready before the beginning came true. Zagreb was NOT made for those who enjoy ridning a bike. So many holes in the roads, and so many "busy" cars and trucks constantly pushing our nerves. But we get out of there alive - and now I must also be fair to the croats, because about 30 km away from zagreb the conditions of the roads actually turned to be much better.
We drove through the rich fertile landscapes of Slavonia, and that healed our nerves to watch so many fields blooming and so much nature all around - every small town here with just a little selfrespect seem to have a couple of storks nesting in the center. So romantic!!
145,6 km was the distance between Bernards home in Zagreb and the residence of the Tomljanovicfamily who have been taking more than care of us for about 2 days now.
We have been spoiled with homemade sausage, hams, bread, cookies, vegetables, juices of all kinds, wine and Slivovica etc the motto here seems to be " eat my friend - just eat whenever you want"!.... we appreciate that motto pretty much I can tell you.
Especially Bernard deserved to be spoiled for a while. Both of his weels get flat during the ride, and none of the times was it caused by the tie, but from the weel itself inside. Life isnt fair.His mood was almost broken because of that - when it start to rain and made us completely wet just before we have to go down from some hills ( that makes you very cold too I can tell you), it definitely didnt make anything better.
But thanks to the great hospitality we met here in Virovitica we are up again now. We even found our first bestiaries here in this small town.
Hmmm I must admit that I feel sad to leave this nice place allready, but we are now wellfeeded and can use this stay as a jumpboard into Hungary.
We hope to reach the Balatonlake tomorrow and install ourselve in some hostell or hotel before Croatia plays against Poland ( 20.45)