Sign In
Blogs from Croatia, Europe - page 18
Advertisement
September 4th 2011
Now, where was I? Suitably relaxed, we packed the Berlingo, said our goodbyes to the campsite fella and his cat, and headed south-east-ish. We had decided to head for Dubrovnik, and the usual way to get there was to head southwest, straight towards the coast. We decided to take the advice of Nedzo from Blagaj and hang a left on highway 6. As is usual, taking local advice paid off. Not only did it reduce the number of border crossings (the normal way required driving into Croatia, then back into Bosnia, then into Croatia again) but it took us through some quieter, dry Mediterranean type countryside. The road wounnd its way through some lovely country, through towns with great names like Stolac, Ljubinje and Trebinje, all a bit bucolic in a dry sort of way. Not ... read more
September 3rd 2011
we had a full day in Debrovnick today, so after breakfast we headed into town. I went to the war memorial gallerie meusem which was quite interesting with all the information and photos. After spending a couple of hours there had a quick lunch which we had prepared at camp before heading off to walk around the city's wall. It took just under 2hours to walk around the wall, but it had some amaxing views of the city and the sea out beyond. After we had finished walking the wall we had a wee walk around the streets. We then headed back to camp about 5ish, found the beach which was a 10min walk and had pebbles, it was refreshing as was a very hot day. It was a pretty relaxed evening as we got dinner ... read more
September 2nd 2011
Ok, so it’s on to Dubrovnik in Croatia, and I can’t wait! Hitting the old town on the first night for Dave’s birthday, it was definitely a challenging backing it up after last night in Albania but I just had to suck it up and put my party shoes back on. The city is an amazing sight to behold, entirely enclosed in fortress walls standing 15 to 20m high, you actually cross a draw bridge to get in. And that it still functions as a city is really cool. The first club we hit was basically all Contiki unfortunately, but I did get to have a drink called a ‘sex bucket’ :-), so that was kinda cool. The second club, however, was sensational!! Awesome layout, cranking music, dancing cages, and a strange hole that simply went ... read more
September 2nd 2011
today we were back on the coach headed for debrovnick, Croatia and travelling through montenegro. It was a beautiful drive most of the way, we got to debrovnick around 5ish and set up our tents for the first time in a wee while. After camp was set up and we had a bit of spare time we got taken on a walking tour by our tour guide david before being left to our own device for dinner. We then met up with everyone else later to head to the skybar for a couple of drinks.... read more
Sailing the amazing Adriatic Sea - Split to Dubrovnik and back via Hvar
Published: September 3rd 2011Europe » Croatia » Dalmatia
August 31st 2011
A very early morning flight from London saw us land in Split right on time to catch a bus to the huge harbour and board our Katarina Line boat for our epic sailing adventure of Croatia. We avoided booking the ones that we knew were notoriously full of Aussies (e.g Fanatics, Top Deck), however our sailing group was still at least 70% Australian - but at least having gone for the expensive boat, they were classy Australians. Our sailing ship, Ocean, was a magnificent boat with 36 on board plus crew (our captain Mario was quite funny as was the heavily tattooed chef and cheeky barman). We weren’t exactly sailing though, as there wasn’t much wind, so the twin engines sucked up 100 litres of fuel per hour to make sure we arrived at our destinations ... read more
Advertisement
Za górami za lasami, gdzieś w Chorwacji pod palmami ...
Published: September 25th 2011Europe » Croatia » Dalmatia » Makarska
August 31st 2011
Za górami za lasami, gdzieś w Chorwacji pod palmami ... Biorąc pod uwagę słowa Érica-Emmanuela Schmitta "Codziennie patrz na świat, jakbyś oglądał go po raz pierwszy." To Chorwację oglądałam po raz pierwszy ... Tak naprawdę przez ogromny przypadek, bo razem z Mery miałyśmy jechać do Grecji, ale że wyszło jak wyszło to pojechałyśmy do Chorwacji. Gdzie również było iście jedwabiście. Wiadomo jak wakacje, to wakacje. Podstawą udanych wakacji jest opalenizna. Tak naprawdę to ona świadczy o tym jak długo byczyłeś się na słońcu i jakich środków do opalania używałeś. Osobiście z tego miejsca pragnę zdradzić Wam, że najlepszą i najbardziej długotrwałą opaleniznę uzyskuje się opalając się na oliwkę. Nawet przyśpieszacze opalania "+40 % BRONZE" nie dają takich efektów. Ale pamiętaj! Jeśli należysz do grupy białasów, nie rób teg... read more
Croatia: Pula, Zagreb, Dubrovnik, Montenegro Split and home
Published: September 8th 2011Europe » Croatia » Dalmatia » Dubrovnik
August 30th 2011
Heading south from Slovenia, I crossed into the Croatian part of the Istrian peninsula. The bus arrived in the Croatian city of Pula 10 minutes early even though it was 45 minutes late in Slovenia and we had to stop for 15 minutes at the border for passport control, so not quite sure how that happened. Pula is right at the tip of Istria, and as the name suggests, it has a very Italian past. The city has some of the best Roman ruins I've seen, including the impressive Amphitheatre from the 1st century BC (the 6th largest surviving example) as well as several Roman gates and arches dating from the same era. The main square in the city is called the Forum, and is home to the 1st century Roman Temple of Augustus, as well ... read more
Monday 29th August – Plitvice Lakes National Park
Published: September 11th 2011Europe » Croatia » Central Croatia » Plitvice Lakes National Park
August 29th 2011
Very cold last night, we had our own sleeping bags and I was still cold! Today we had the optional extra to go to Plitvice National Park (it was highly recommended because there was not anything else to do at the campsite). We all arrived and choose the path we wanted to do, we chose the 4-6 hour walk which ended up only taking us 4 hours with stops included. Another group did a longer walk which was meant to take 6-8 hours (it was 21 km) and they came back 30 minutes after us saying they managed to walk 21 km as well as having 2 half hour stops... I don't think anyone believed that they actually managed to complete 21 km in such a short time... CHEATERS!!!!!! We were picked up again at 5pm ... read more
Sunday 28th August – Plitvice Lakes
Published: September 11th 2011Europe » Croatia » Central Croatia » Plitvice Lakes National Park
August 28th 2011
Another travel day so another boring blog entry. We packed up the ususal way to head to Plitvice Lakes (in Croatia). We drove for a long time to a place called Zadar where the 'Sea Organ' is located . An artist put 30 odd pipes in the sea under the dock and the way the water moves makes the pipes make noises. It was kind of weird. The same artist also made a massive sun on the dock out of reflective materials so when you walk over it it shone pretty colours because of the reflection of the sun. We were given about 2 hours free time to look around the place but being a Sunday a lot of shops were closed. We found a few nice stalls and bought some very cool things then went ... read more
August 28th 2011
After recovering with pancakes in our hostel in Bratislava, we began our journey to Croatia. As we settled in to our 11 hour journey, Kat starts looking at dates in her journal and realises an epic oversight. We thought we had our inter-rail ticket for 4 weeks, when really we had them for a month- that's 4 days we didn't realise we had, and hadn't budgeted for. And there we were rushing down to Split before our inter-rail ticket ran out... could've stayed longer in Slovakia or something couldn't we! We found this news hilarious, and decided a few extra days in the Croatian sun was not a hardship. We got to the hostel seconds before our room was about to be given away- it was the longest journey, we were 6 1/2 hours late! In ... read more
