Currently on holiday in Croatia; beautiful country etc etc, but what the hell is wrong with your drivers?
Outside of cities it feels like the only speeds known to mankind are 90km/h for one lane roads and 130km/h for those with two or more.
A speed limit of 80 or 100 on a highway? Completely ignored, unless it’s a tunnel, then 100 is ok.
Some section of road outside of a city says 70, 60 or 50? Ignored, just drive through with 90.
Beautiful two-lane road (D424) from A1 to Zadar with a limit of 80, me doing 90 because that’s OK somehow and most other cars overtake me with 20 km/h more at least.
So, what is wrong with your drivers?
I had a really pleasant drive through Croatia, it didn’t seem too crazy to me. This was more than a few years ago though. Drove from Plitvice Lakes park to Split by way of some rural as fuck road through the woods, eventually getting on some highway, A1 I believe. My expectations may have been altered by the years of driving in Italy.
Going through the tunnel on A1 was a cool experience. One side was green, temperate, and humid, then we cut through a tunnel, the other side was brown, dry, and hot. One minute of driving completely changed the microclimate. This was northeast of Zadar.
Edit: unrelated to driving but my girlfriend and I at the time went driving downstream from Plitvice lakes to find a place to swim. Ended up pulling off the side of the road near a river and walking upstream until we found a spot. We didn’t realize it was behind somebodies house but they came out and let us swim anyways. A super cool experience. We literally wandered into their natural river pool and they didn’t care.
I know the one you mean! It feels like switching biomes. I went down that motorway with my parents when I was younger and althpugh the views were nice, it felt like it went on for ages.