Croatia #7 'Up The Coast to Zadar'
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We've gone past the halfway point of the tour and Dubrovnik was a tremendous place to spin ourselves through 180 and head home. A truly beautiful medieval city.
But sightseeing aside, it's time to start heading home.
So we hit the coast road again, past the aftermath of the fires we saw on the way down. Past Split and on to the see the Sea Organ in Zadar!
Follow the route: goo.gl/maps/Wi9ZwfDRFEE2
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For the question about the small part of the coast Bosnia & Herzegovina has. In the 17th century, The Republic of Ragusa (Dubrovnik) gave away that piece of land to the Ottoman Empire to get a buffer zone between them and Venice (their main rival at the time). It remained part of the Ottoman Empire until it was taken over by Austria-Hungary. However, it the small part remained the part of Bosnia in Yugoslavia, so after the Yugoslavia breakup, this part went to Bosnia.
Dubrovnik was always Croatian,not Bosnian always Catholic Croatian town.
It seems there is a wealth of complicated and tumultuous history surrounding that area. And not all of it with any grounding in common sense!!
@@AndyManCam Regarding the loss of response at low RPM without the baffle in ... you leaned off the mixture and thus increased vibration while losing power on the Open Loop part of your fueling (accelerating).The material on the Boosterplug website explains the power loss but does not mention the vibrations. I just fitted the Boosterplug to my MT-01 and noticed an immediate and considerable drop in vibrations. I emailed Jens and he explained the vibration is also due to lean mixture rectified by the BP. Thank you BTW for your excellent videos on the BP, they helped me in my purchase.
WOW just WOW and no I don't mean you I mean the coastline, just WOW. Looking forward to the inland northward trip :)
Oh go on, you mean me too! No?... oh.. awwwkwaaard....
It was an amazing and magical coastline. If you haven't been, you should.
Absolutely an epic adventure Andy. This tour is on my soon to do list.
Thanks for sharing.
Many thanks! My pleasure entirely. I couldn’t recommend it more!
@@AndyManCam if not this year due to the virus, then next year for sure.
I’m hoping to get down there this year too. But we’ll just have to wait and see!
Croatia is amongst the most beautiful countries in the world but easily the best coastline in the world
I wholeheartedly agree Dan.
Player 3 has left the game! Epic!
😎😎
I was going to save any comments until after the tour....but I can't....that was one of your best yet, awesome.
Wow. Cheers Robin. Always good to hear that they're still getting better! 😊
croatia has been added to the list of countries to visit, next time im in europe!! what a gorgeous country.
I couldn't recommend it more. A real riding highlight of my career!
Another great part to the series Andy. Top notch work as always!
Thanks very much Reece!
Apparently the little bit of Bosnia is to do with the Ottoman empire many years ago. The Dubrovnik region gave away abit of land to the north to keep it safe from the war.
The airplane scenes are amazing, definitely something you don't see everyday.
So I've heard. Amazing the things people will do to avoid a dust up!
Brightens up a winters evening. Thanks. Really enjoying this series.
Glad to hear it! Cheers mate!
Thanks again for sharing your tour! I am really tempted now to explore Croatia this summer!
My pleasure! Thank you! You really should, before everybody goes there!
As always, entertaining roads, humour and use of the English language. Got to sort out a house swap in Europe one day and explore some of these great locations you keep presenting to us. Cheers AMC.
Thanks Russell! Do it I say! there is SO much to see here, that you could stay a year and only scratch the surface. I've been trying for years and still feel like I've seen nothing.
Another wonderful episode mate, thanks for sharing :-)
Thanks bud!
Great coastal tour with a lot of laughs, thank you Andy!
Thank YOU! Beautiful coast they’ve got down there!
Great episode, awesome scenery. I'm really enjoying this.
It was just incredible mate. The videos can only show a fraction of it and they could be 10 times longer if I included every incredible sight. Magical!
Looks a great trip! You must be chomping at the bit to take the new bike on tour. The soundtrack will certainly be different 👍
Cheers Ian, it was an amazing trip! I am going NUTS with excitement about getting out properly on the new machine!
Your videos about croatia make me want to go back there 😥
Thanks Andrei. It's making me want to go back too!
Just showed some of this to SWMBO and two revelations:
1: She understands why I watch TH-cam now and
2: She wants me to book a holiday !
Thankyou Andy. You have improved my quality of life !
You can't mess around with exhausts without messing around with carbs. Ex Two-stroke rider talking ;-)
Get IN!! The team works!! Enjoy Croatia mate!! :D
I’ve been out and bought a versys 650 taken DAS course and have my mod 2 next Tuesday all on the strength of your U tube videos I’m 52 yrs old you have given me a new lease on life thank you keep up the videos and keep making us laugh , you have a great sense of humour
Brilliant! Glad to hear it Peter and good luck for the test!
Andy Man Cam Passed today 😊
A splendid episode!
Cheers mate! After a splendid days riding like that, it makes itself!
Wow ... Primošten,Karlovačko beer ... you nailed it hahahaha ... good job my friend .... now about fires you saw ... Croatia last year had the biggest fire threat in its history ... fires came close as like 100m from Split ... every fire department from continental Croatia came to the coast to defend the homes of people (they were voted 2nd most important "person" of 2017. in Croatia) ... people also defended their homes ... about your border crossing Bosnia and Hercegovina were like Croatia in Yugoslavia under Tito and to be fair to all nations Tito gave them Neum (that part which is the border) ... I could write about Dubrovnik and its history but it would take too long ... just to note 1416. abolished slavery,1377. introduced quarantine,first pharmacy and the oldest in Europe 1357. etc etc
Glad you had a blast ... looking forward to see Zagreb my home town in your vid
Bye
I tried my best! Glad I got some things right! Never felt comfortable saying Zadar though! That's utterly terrifying about the fires. Though in the face of that, who was deemed more important than the fire department!!?
journalist lady
The Old Republic of Dubrovnik did not want land border with Venice (fear of a land invasion of a competitive trading republic) therefore this part of the land was sold to the Ottoman Empire which the Venetian should not pass because it would risk the war and especially commercial privileges
Great vid great series! Oh so there are fires in places other than socal. I just leave the baffle in because the material inside wears out anyway and it gets louder and don't lose back pressure.
Thank you! Yeah apparently this one was so big that every fire department in Croatia headed to the coast to help. I think I'll leave the baffle in too. I prefer torque over high revs!
As always, awesome work Andy! Hope you camera isn't too badly smashed up.
In terms of the Border crossing at Neums, I've known for a while its had a long history, but having a bit of a google I didn't realise its extensive as it is. From what had a quick read though, Dubrovnik used to be the Republic of Regusa and has been held/vassled or had deals with multiple different empires, Venice, Ottoman, Hungry and French, and somewhere along there Dubrovnik became part of Croatia, I assume there was a treaty there at some point. From what I can see Bosnia-Herzegovina had that bit of land prior to Dubrovnik becoming part of Croatia and despite the joining and disbanding of yugoslavia multiple times in the last few hundred years it has managed to hold onto that bit of land.
Thanks Andrew! It seems like it's a real politico-geographical can of worms! Amazing the crazy history that shapes the countries around us.
Dubrovnik Republic sold that part to Ottoman Bosnia in 1699 becouse it wanted to have a buffer between them and Venetian colony up north. Dubrovnik had an agreement with Ottomans at that time while Venice was its maritime and trading rival. Today this part of Bosnia and Herzegovina all the way up to half of Mostar is somewhat separatist with Croat majority. During the war that land was called Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia.
The Republic of Ragusa was also a Croatian republic, ruled and inhabited by Croats (remember, there were no proper nation states in Europe in the middle ages).
And regarding Neum… after the peace in Sremski Karlovac in the year 1699, the Republic of Ragusa demanded that its territory should be separated from the territory of the Venetian Republic, therefore Otomans were given Neum as a sort of a buffer in between them.
Current border at Neum is actually completely artificial and a consequence of Tito’s decision in 1945 to create a republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina as some sort of a buffer between Croatia and Serbia.
So when you are crossing Neum, you’re officially entering another state (province Herzegovina, not Bosnia which is located much more to the north), but in fact you’re still driving through the land, inhabitated 99% by Croatians.
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Actually, that guy has the smart road positioning unlike yourself at 3:43. It's not a racetrack and it's not a rarely used country road - it's a busy coastal highway and you should not take being safe on it for granted. You should not be so close to the center line with big lorries passing by, it's not only dangerous in case your bike fails (brakes, punctured tires, etc.) but also because any number of unexpected things may happen to really fuck up your day, like unhooked lorry tarpaulin, rocks being thrown by their massive tires, a car going over the center line, etc. Just a well meaning advice. ;)
We’ll have to agree to disagree there. Every rider worth his salt knows that coming wide into a corner affords you a vastly better view of everything ahead and far more time to react to any of the things that you mentioned. That guy could probably see max 10m in front of him, whereas from my position i could see at least twice as far through every bend as he could.
€10 for a cardboard box in the garden? You were lucky. We lived for three months in a rolled-up newspaper in a septic tank.We used to have to get up every morning at 6 o’clock and clean the newspaper, go to work down t' mill, fourteen hours a day, week-in week-out, for sixpence a week, and when we got home our Dad would thrash us to sleep with his belt.
FOURTEEN HOURS!! You were lucky! We had to work 26 hours a day, 8 and a half days a week, with our hands tied to our feet! And at the end of the day we PAID 3 and ha'penny for the pleasure!
Another great episode Andy.
I did have a bit of a chuckle at the camera meeting it's end at the checkpoint, sorry about that!! Looking forward to watching the next one.
Cheers mate! Yeah it was my own stupid fault with the camera! If we will try and get interesting angles, but forget that the gadgets are hanging out in space! 🙈
I have found some old maps of Kingdom of Bosnia and some history facts so ... from 1180 ad to 1391 ad Bosnia ruled portions of Croatia from Biograd ( near Zadar ) with islands of Solta,Brac,Hvar and Korcula to Bay of Kotor ( in Montenegro ) with except of Republic of Dubrovnik,Peljesac peninsula and Mljet island. Large portion of coast. Then Otomans came and all hell brakes out. Last ruler of Kindom was Queen Catherine ( wife of King Stephen Thomas who died few years before ) she escaped to Dubrovnik and then to Vatican city Rome . She died there in 1478 and buried at Santa Maria in Aracoeli church. Her kids was taken by Otomans and they converted to Islam in Istambul. Croats regained land after some time and they were stoping power or wall for Europe against Otomans.
Interesting facts , at least for me.
Just worth adding…Kingdom of Bosnia in the time of its existence (2 years as a recognized kingdom, 84 as a raging kingdom, and 197 as a banovina) was a Croat kingdom, with Croat catholic rulers (Queen Catherine being the last one) and Croat inhabitants.
Wow. Lot of water under that bridge! We are constantly determined to destroy each other it seems!
I didn't know that either!
Bosnia and the sea Q - Because former president Tito gave Bosnia exit onto the sea so they're connected to the Adriatic sea, he also helped to build Neum city. Cheers mate you were riding in biking paradise. 👍
It certainly is Paradise! Makes the border complication less confusing!
Watching your videos is very bad for my mental health, but touring vicariously is much better than not touring at all. Oh.. and find that dark beer.. I'm a fan myself. 😁 🏍
Haha! Every cloud and all that! Wait, we don't talk about clouds.... It turns out the beer wasn't even Croatian! It was Közel, a Czech beer! But @BracerTracer showed me the dark Karlovacko later on in Zagreb ;D
Mmmm... Czech beer.....
I'd like to czech that beerrrrr... something something...
I believe the small B&H border was because when Dubrovnik was allied with the Ottoman Empire which starting losing power, it gave a small piece of land to the nearby towns to give it buffer from the northern enemies of the Ottoman. So post Yugoslavian war, the town was Bosnian so that land is part of the now B&H. Oh my...
'E're Lammy, can you explain the 7 Years' War later..... I still get history exam nightmares.... :D
Hehe, GCSE history was as far as I went. One of them subjects that very interesting but not to a high academic level for my brain!
Politics and war. Such happy, positive and never confusing matters! XD
Agreed, if everyone rode motorcycles there'd be much less of that rubbish.
20:45 It's the Cetina river that flows into the Adriatic Sea in the town of Omis
Thanks! It was hard to keep up with all that water around!
What you do, you do well, keep it up. (the vids!) ;>))
Thanks mate! I'm very happy to hear it and I'll do my very level best!
Hi Andy, your the best on youtube. I know about hot summer riding, in February we get 40c plus days in Australia. What time of year was the Croatia ride? Keep up the great wook mate.
Old Man Oz.
Aw shucks! Fanks! That sounds WAY too hot mate!! This was in August, so about the peak of summer I think, maybe just after.
Great video Andy! Just wondering, because you do so much riding - especially long distance - do you use any ear protection?
Cheers!
Thanks Charlie! On the longer or faster rides i wear earplugs. I find that under 100km/h in my current helmet it's quite comfortable without. I probably should wear plugs all the time though. But then my hearing was never that great! 😂
Your the best Andy
Thanks Geoff! Though in actual fact, you are the best for sticking your face in front of my vids time after time!
Andy Man Cam you have inspired me to start a new period in my life. Check out my first attempts (the second vid is better).. I think I need more practice with both riding and talking - but that’s the fun of it eh? th-cam.com/channels/2MGz6OrQqUEqiA3kxUQo5A.html
Another great video Andy! We do look forward to each instalment of your tours. Our son changed the exhaust on his bike and although it sounds better (don't tell him!) his mpg dropped quite noticeably. Seems to be a side effect. Is the camera toast then? What will you replace it with?
Thanks Christopher! I wonder if the decreased MPG is because of science, or because the extra sound makes you ride like more of a hoonigan?!
Probably both! 😂
Oh and the camera still works, amazingly! The screen flaps about in the wind, but it still records. Though I haven't used it since this trip. I think I'll stick with the Sony Cameras from now on.
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I just love the history in Europe and hope it was laced out for people to interact. I wonder how much of that was built by the Romans. Ride safe mate.
That's the crazy thing isn't it. Layers upon layers of history and conquering! Luckily the Roman alle of roads didn't prevail around here! 😉
great vid andy but me minds to knackerd so something ubercool so goodnight and good vid
Haha! Hope you rested well, because the show goes ever on! ;)
dark beer is called tomislav beer. Grat beer with higher alcohol content
Darker AND more alcohol! Win!
WAs it expensive in Croatia ?
So long and thanks for all the fish?
Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. It's what the higher race (the dolphins) said to the humans as they left the planet for 'recycling' th-cam.com/video/N_dUmDBfp6k/w-d-xo.html
I say, that was rather spelendiferous
The journey was splendiferous! I am but a lowly conduit to the adventures that lie in wait...
You must have had to really concentrate on staying on the road on that trip, just so much to look at, or not! Good job it wasn’t Coventry!
It was tough not to look at everything ALL of the time! At least there weren't so many hairpins as in the Alps!
I know its rude not to but giving up the big throttle blip on downshifts would help the mpg figures. Im just as guilty
But where would the fun be in that!! Plus, with the agressive engine braking on the Versys, without blipping I could have locked up the rear wheel. That's dangerous! So I blip for 'safety' reasons! :D
No fun at all but will help those mpg figures on trips. A smaller blip would suffice. Some may even call it rev matching ;-)
I love the Versys engine braking. Descending the local mountain grades (as steep as 14%) with hairpin turns takes all the engine braking I can get.
A couple years ago I was descending Pikes Peak through a maze of hairpins, when I got stuck behind a motorist driving at the speed of continental drift. (Sorry, but I had to steal that). As we reached a short straight between two hairpins, I made my move to pass. Just as I pulled along side him, I messed up a shift. So there I was: Heading into a hairpin...in the wrong lane...with a car on my right...and the rear wheel dancing all over the road. It was at that moment I suddenly figured out why slipper clutches are a thing. ;-)
Funny thing is the new Versys-X 300cc comes with a slipper standard.
Was about to say, turn off the camera it's border again, and there you did... subconsciously :D
Haha) proper local
I opted for the 'remote' switch. :(
Or just thirsty for a post ride bevvy!
10K Subs! Come on people, imagine if half gave a buck or two on Patreon?
Thanks mate! That would be pretty awesome! A new tour series every month!! :D
No doubt. I think people mistakenly think that the Ads pay good money which they do not.
A mate of mine works for Google (he has no soul. It's like scientology) and over a beer one night, about 5 years ago, he told me that a million views equated to around $5000-$7000. Now it's about $500-$700!! MAN did we miss the golden window!! :D
Exactly (advertisers now start to really understand the value of ads). Knowing that, how many motorcycle channels do you know that have enough views video after video to make any actual money? Any? Most "good" channels are far less than what's needed so it seems to me creators need to focus on things like Patreon or Maker's Support or I guess Merch. Either that or it's 'just for fun' or advertising for something else. Teapotone seems to be trying to establish a touring business....I assume Vida is doing something similar. Touring with Andy??
Not a bad idea mate. Wildly complicated so hats off to those chaps. I've been thinking about exploring deeper in to the merch world as well. I just still find it hard to imagine folks want stuff with me on it! 😂
Crossing the world’s most ridiculous border: foreignpolicy.com/2011/10/19/crossing-the-worlds-most-ridiculous-border/
It is all a bit crazy and confusing! I feel for those who have to do it frequently for work or family.
You have not been to Bosnia, you have been in Hercegovina. Bosnia is in the North and Hercegovina is in the south.
You know Bosnia AND Hercegovina 😉
So Neum is in Hercegovina and the population of Neum are 99.999 % Croats 😊
So I keep getting told! ;p It's all very confusing for an outsider! Especially when the sign 'at the door' says Bosnia on it!!
you just drive in front of my house in Zadar, next time contact me and you can stay in my apartments for free(not in cardboard box with bucket) :)
Hahaa! If only we'd known! But next time! Thanks Mate.
I see why you chose just then to mention Brazilians.
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So, when are you going to show us this organ you kept bragging about, huh? ;)
Soon! Hold yer horses! I'm still getting the feeling back in my mouse finger after chopping the last one together! :D
The blue pill Alzheimer ward. I spent a happy month or two there, so I've been told.
Many happy mammaries, but sadly no memories...