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shropshiredefender



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A10 Salzburg - Croatia advice for travelling April 2018
Planning a road trip in the Puma 110 USW through Europe and down to Croatia. This will involve the A10 from Salzburg to the Croatian coast in late April this year.

Looking at snow in the Shropshire Hills makes me wonder what the passes and tunnels are likely to be like.

Any advice welcome pics of the passes would be great.

Thanks.
Post #694855 20th Mar 2018 8:36am
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Badger110



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United Kingdom 2011 Defender 110 Puma 2.4 USW Buckingham Blue
Have a look on this website ; www.horizonsunlimited.com

You'll find a wealth of information for overlanding including the area you're travelling in.

Its geared towards 2 wheel overlanding but has a huge area for 4 wheel fellows too and all the information is top notch
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Tdi4



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Netherlands 2008 Defender 110 Puma 2.4 CSW Stornoway Grey
Just before the slovinian border is a nice camping.

https://www.camping.info/campsite.aspx?campsiteId=19447 a defender from 1984 pretending to be a puma with a touch of Range Rover
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Huttopia



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Badger110 wrote:
Have a look on this website ; www.horizonsunlimited.com

You'll find a wealth of information for overlanding including the area you're travelling in.

Its geared towards 2 wheel overlanding but has a huge area for 4 wheel fellows too and all the information is top notch


I worked with Susan (half of the team behind horizons unlimited) about 10 years ago and got to hear some of the stories and see some of the amazing photos first hand. A very cool lady. As Badger says the site is a mine of practical information and well worth a visit, they really know their stuff.
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mick



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I went last summer to Dugi Otok from zeebrugge to Munich then from Munich to Zadar in 2 days. We were towing a boat as well.
If you want to make it interesting go over the Lobil pass into Slovenia like we did Shocked ended up getting fined Rolling with laughter €25

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You need a Vignette for Austria & Slovenia as well
No Dash cams in Austria either
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RoyW



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We've been in Croatia in summer 2016. On our website (in Dutch) you can find some links to wikiloc. We have driven a couple of off road tracks. http://stokenstaart.nl/2016kroatie/
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Boyd



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You won’t have any issues whatsoever on the main roads, the two main routes are very low lying and would barely see snow.

If you want to make it interesting there are plenty of options but snow chains would still be required i’d dare say by April.

A number of the back country routes would probably just be opening by then but expect deep snow either side of the road and packed snow underneath.

Wikiloc has a few of the interesting routes but if you struggle send me your rough route and I’ll tell you if there is anything interesting close by Cool

One of my first and favourite back country routes through Slovenia was only found by turning off motorways and tolls on the sat nav. Ended up crossing the Triglav National park and the Julian Alps mainly using what in the winter the locals were deeming cross country ski routes..... and I was in a RRS! Whistle 2003 Zambezi Silver TD5 110 XS SW overland prepped....
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