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Catastrophic failure

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The last weeks have been spent leisurely driving South through Croatia. Down to Pula, getting on the ferry to the island of Cres  and hopping over to Krk. Sometimes enduring rain and heavy winds that were distant remnants of a hurricane over the Greek Isles. Most of the time it was sunny though but not really warm. I got into a slow rhythm of traveling that suited me fine but at the same time felt that I needed to speed it up a bit. Most travelers that were in the same direction as me, and who I follow on instagram were around Turkey at that time, as world travel is regulated by the seasons and one cannot just disregard the calendar. Unless you don't mind traveling in snow! So it was around the small coastal town of Ploce, driving through vineyards full of juicy grapes, that suddenly there was no power to the engine. It started sounding very rough and my first thought was 'head gasket'. I say that because it wasn't really a surprise, I had a sneaky suspicion for mon