Blogs from Croatia, Europe - page 145

Friday 10th July 2009 Got up at about 6.50am this morning, I am a woman on a mission today to get to the internet cafe and update my fantasy league for the NRL and it has to be done by 9.30am! So I am up and get brekky which is a banana I had left over from the day before and we are served salami, cheese, cucumber and tomato with bread.... sorry I just cannot get used to this first thing in the morning!! I manage to leave on the bus about 8.08am while everyone else has brekky and meets at the bus around 8.30. I catch the bus to the Old City and the information centre is open! hooray! So I get my team updated and wander outside to watch all the tourist buses arrive ... read more

Croatia: 11th - 18th July 2009 “Umm...now?” I wasn't sure if I'd heard Skipper Ben correctly. I thought he said to stand on the pier, and as the boat motored out of the parking spot (slip?), I was supposed to push a little on the hull so it wouldn't bump or scrape against the pier, and then just as the stern was passing by, I was supposed to climb on. But, Skipper Ben failed to take into account that I'm scatter-brained and uncoordinated, which meant that there were even odds that I'd forget or fail to board at the precise moment. Fortunately, some modicum of survival instinct kicked in at the appropriate time, and I made it aboard as we motored out of the marina at Primosten, Croatia, on the Dalmatian Coast. And thus, our long ... read more

We arrived in Zagreb today on schedule - at 12 noon - and stepped out of our train to an unbelievable heat! I couldn’t get internet at the hotel so I don’t know what the temperature was but it felt like 40 celsius. After a fairly long and steamy tram ride we arrived at our hotel area. (Trams here come in two flavours: the new modern air-conditioned variety and the old somewhat beaten up window open if you are lucky variety.) We got the latter on our route! The hotel is very comfortable and central air makes the room nice and cool, thankfully. After a shower we took the tram again back to the centre of town and did a little exploring. It was too hot to walk much so we stopped for lunch and a ... read more

Blog Entry: I've Lost Count: CROATIA! (I don't want to leave) This morning I lost my breakfast... the ship left at about 8 am from Croatia and right off the bat, it was rocky. There was a storm as we left Croatia so the seas weren't as calm as they usually are. I knew I wasn't going to feel good so I popped 2 Meclizines and headed up for breakfast. Oh and luckily I grabbed a handy dandy barf bag. Anyway I got up from the computer after breakfast and just lost it. I ran over to the corner... I don't think anyone saw me... if they did, oh well. I'm so used to it! I made it to class long enough to tell him I just got sick in the hallway and he sent me ... read more

The past 3 days have been heaven. On Day 2, a couple girls and I walked to the Old Town (without getting lost) and headed straight for the beach. Unfortunately, like in Capri, the beach was a rock beach. It’s so rough on the feet! It was fun though and the water was great. We headed back and called it an early night after our late-night adventure the night before. On Day 3 I went on a kayaking and snorkeling trip with my Oceanography class. The beach we went to was down this super long path and was so pretty. We kayaked along the coast from the beach to the Old City and then headed across the water to an island called Lokrum. The kayaking was very cool and allowed us to see a lot of ... read more