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Croatia & Slovenia 30/06 to 03/07 2009 "It's Bloody hot in Pazin"

A Single manned brief jaunt to cover the day train out of Split and more importantly the hauled train out of Pula which I had never previously done. (New locos again denoted by #)  PS: all my Digital photo's around this period were lost when the Fotopic site closed down the same week that my own Computer crashed! also this trip HAS already been reported in ERG. Tuesday 30/06/2009 I had to stay overnight in Bedford at the Travelodge as the Wizzair flight to Zagreb was departing at 07:55. We sat on the tarmac at Luton awaiting takeoff and on arrival at Zagreb the customs were very slow. Jumped on the 1230 bus which was soon wedged and standing. Wandered from the bus station through a very hot Zagreb to the Glavni station , picked up some provisions and beer from the supermarket under the station before trying my luck on table 12. I'd only ever had 5 2044's before - but it didn't stop me starting with 3 dud ones in a row! The ubiquitous 2044002 making yet another appearanc...