Blogs from Novalja, Istria, Croatia, Europe

Set off from the hostel in Ljubljana at half 5 on Tuesday morning to catch the 6.20am train to Rijeka, which ended up not leaving until about an hour later due to the late arrival of some zombie carriages which needed to join us. As we went off, I fell asleep almost straight away and was woken up at the Slovenian border station by the police. Half an hour after the lengthy process of clearing both border stations we were scaling the Istrian coastline towards the clump of huge cranes and paneláks which sat on the shore. The confusingly named city "Rijeka", confusing as this word in Croatian just means "river" and the only things remotely like rivers in this city are a small canal/wharf and the meditteranean sea. Perhaps it was named in the same ... read more