Blogs from Central Croatia, Croatia, Europe - page 26

Yesterday I did my sightseeing in Ljubljana, seeing the huge Saturday Market, some of the important buildings, several squares, a famous architect's house and such. It was a lot of fun, but not really that interesting for pictures. Had lunch at the same pizzeria that I had dinner at the other night. It was just as good. I had checked out of the hotel and left the car in the hotel parking lot, so I was able to wander around at will. Around 1 I grabbed the car and headed to Croatia. The drive was very easy. I had been on the roads around LJ enough that I knew where I was going. For the most part it was a freeway, although there were a few sections where they are building it, so it is a ... read more

Were back in England now and I'm adding some photos for you to peruse!!! I will be updating the travel adventures again in the next few days, all with photos I hope, as we are having some major problems with lack of hardrive space and too many photos!!!! Enjoy for now!!!... read more

Hokey cokey here we go again. Firstly if you start getting z's where y's should be - my apologies as they are in different places on this keyboard, and for a touch typist that's not so good!!! So we left Gloucester and headed down to Dover and caught the 6.00pmish crossing. Nothing eventful to report on that front at all! We headed up the coast toward Oostende and then basically turned right and headed towards Dortmund. David took on the driving to start with whilst I navigated which wasn't overlz difficult!!! On making our right turn towards Dortmund we started to get snow. And it continued snowing, but despite the snow depth getting more the roads remained absolutley clear and we had no problems whatsoever! We pulled in at one the exceptionally frequent laybys and put ... read more

We stayed in bed whilst people began getting up around us. In dorm rooms you have two strategies for mornings; firstly you can try and get up first and beat everyone else to the bathroom, however this may easily fail if someone has an early train etc. The second (and preferred) option is to lounge around in bed until the majority of people have left and then use the hostel facilities at leisure. We opted for the second option and attempted to stay in bed until the majority of the Aussies were up. Irritatingly the hostel owners had chosen a period in time when every bed in the hostel was occupied to renovate the only shared bathroom. All sixteen people had to use one bathroom that was situated inside a private four bed dormitory. Eventually we ... read more

Last night was the worst nights sleep I have had since we began travelling. It was around two in the morning before I dropped off. Around quarter past five we were abruptly woken by a group of men arriving at the hostel. With it being such a minute place, our beds were right by the front door. Not only did they talk loudly for ages but they left the door wide open until it was freezing inside. At one point Rob Sshhed them and one man just laughed. Eventually things quietened down and we thought we would get a few hours sleep at the very least. A man got into the bunk at the end of mine; I call him a man but a wild boar may be a more accurate description. Rob drifted back to ... read more