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Published: August 27th 2010
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Sorry I have not updated for a while. We had no wireless access in Rome or Ancona and since we got to Croatia yesterday I have been too chilled to type. Blog entrys for the last day in Naples when we took a trip to Sorrento and the three days in Rome will follow. I just need to find the draft documents that are stored somewhere on Nat's netbook (how I held down a job using a computer every day for 9 years is beyond me!)
So after two and a half weeks of travelling accross Europe, we arrived in Croatia on the ferry from Italy yesterday afternoon. The ferry journey was 5 hours and I was sea sick for most of it. We had good seats and took a stroll up on the top deck but didn't stay long for two reasons: it was very windy and there was an old lady sunbathing in her bra! Then we played Texas hold'em to pass the time.
Once at sea, Nat reminded me of the bet that we had had about the wobbly tooth (see Prague entry). I would win the bet if the tooth that had been wobbly since
April came out in Italy. At 12.30ish he said it was really really wobbly. I said we were still in Italian waters. Then at 12.50 I got a text from Vodafone saying "welcome to Croatia" so we had left Italian waters and had crossed the border and I had lost the bet. 21 minutes later the tooth just fell out. Hence a long discussion about the tooth fairy conversion rate from GBP to Croatian Kuna and whether the particular tooth fairy that frequents a five star hotel in Croatia would be more generous than the one that visited us in the slums of Prague.
Ten minutes in the taxi from the ferry port and we were at Le Meridian or as I have renamed it - heaven. When planning the trip I knew that trecking around from city to city, staying in basic hostels and walking around in all weathers would be taxing for both of us and we should have a treat for the last few days. What a treat! The hotel complex has an infinity pool beside a private beach and the first thing Nat did was get his trunks on. The room is beautiful with long
forgotten luxuries like an iron and a bath! I booked the cheapest rooms available, dismissing the sea view and garden view rooms but we actually have a sea view if you look past the roofs of the lower block beneath our balcony. There is a spa, games room, casino, childrens club, fantastic restaurant - I could go on. The staff are amazing, all are fluent in English and incredibly attentive. I love ordering things and putting it on the room bill instead of paying!
We had a discussion about exploring Split and one or two of the islands but Nat was of the opinion that we have done enough exploring and for the 4 days that we are here we should not leave the hotel complex. After a day here I agree with him. I am so happy and relaxed and the travels that we have had so far seem like a distant but brilliant memory.
Nat is in the bath right now having issued a do not disturb warning. I just got shouted at for playing ABBA too loudly (it was first alphabeticaly on the hotel music choice). We have pay per view movies and planned to
watch Sherlock Holmes tonight but it is in German so we will be watching Bolt instead.
I know this is not a very interesting blog entry, but we really haven't done anything today. I spent 8 hours sunbathing and Nat spent 8 hours alternating between the indoor pool, outdoor pool and the sea. He has new scuba goggles and snorkel and I have seen more of his bum as he heads to the bottom of the water than I have of his face. Every twenty minutes or so I have been violently distracted from my book by a scream of "cannonball" as he bombed into the water. He is like a prune and has a goggle shaped white patch on his face.
My feet have had it after walking 5 to 10 miles a day in flip flops (love my pink Havaianas) so I have a pedicure booked in the spa at 8.30 tomorrow morning then we will be doing more nothing in the sun. Love it!
Last night over a dinner of sea bass with roasted peppers and the sweetest brussel sprouts I have ever tasted I gave Nat a little pop quiz on the things
he had learned during our trip. It is amazing how much he has absorbed: How may versions of The Bedroom did Van Gogh paint? When was the Berlin Wall errected? Name the two non-violent revolutions in Prague during the reign of communism. Who painted The Birth Of Venus? How many lost their lives in Pompeii? What is the name of the painting on the front wall of the Sistene Chappel? *Answers at the bottom of the page. A+ for my boy!
This will probably be the last blog entry of our journey unless you want more talk of sun, relaxation, luxury and good food but I will update the missing days in Italy when I find them. Once home we will upload a fact file (8 margherita pizzas in 8 days in order of tastiness, highlights, dissapointments etc) and record a bit about getting home.
Thanks for reading. xx
* Three, 1961, Prague Sping and Velvet Revolution, Bottecelli, 2000, Last Judgement,
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