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Day 4: Šibenik to Mostar, 3 October 2024
Text & photos: gerardbrown.co.uk
Design: K-Design
Adrian Brooks and Richard Mackley, 1979 Mercedes-Benz 450 SLC
Danny Day and Ron Doyle, 1975 Mercedes-Benz 280
The Regularity from Stričevići, which followed soon
after, needed slightly less input from the right foot, but a
good deal more mental agility to reconcile the demands of
matching speed and distance over 8km of very primitive
tarmac.
It had been raining steadily for most of the morning, but
there was a short respite as the rally arrived at the Time
control in Otok. cheerful, slightly damp, crews sat in a
thick fug of bonhomie and fresh coffee before being sent
up the narrow climb towards the second Regularity section
through voštane. Having passed through John cotton’s
final Timing Point the route dropped towards the coast and
a harbour-side lunch and Time control in the Hotel Osejava
overlooking the Makarska marina.
after eating our fill we slipped our lines and steamed
out of port and up into the hills towards the Sveti Mihovil
mountain and the third Regularity to Kozica hidden by
low cloud. The final Regularity over the Milina Zasida pass
featured a seemingly endless succession of bends and
three-dimensional tarmac that climbed to 920m through
shrouds of mists and short bursts of rain.
Things went quickly downhill meaning very soon we were
through the border which links the villages of Mali Prolog
and crveni Grm. after a Route check in Biletić Polje we
struck out for the night halt in downtown Mostar and the
cosmopolitan comforts of the Hotel Mepas.
Dinner was served in the Restoran labirint in the centre
of Mostar overlooking that famous bridge. While Mostar’s
history can be traced back to the 15th century, perhaps
the place it occupied during the Bosnian War of the 1990’s
resonates most loudly with us today. fortunately, now at
peace, Mostar and its bridge have been rebuilt.
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