Blogs from Central Croatia, Croatia, Europe - page 6

I needed a foot massage after walking all day in Plitvice Lakes National Park. Not sure what are more impressive; the Lakes or the interconnecting waterfalls. The 16 Lakes are dammed by travertine which grows at a rate of 1cm per year by the integration of plants, bacteria, water and air. It took just over 5 hours to walk along the lake-edge paths and boardwalks constructed between the Lakes on top of the travertine dams with water rushing beneath your feet at times. The Karst topography is also home of many caves, sinkhole and underground rivers. Truly fascinating!... read more

Our Cosmos tour of Croatia, Slovenia and Bosniaer Herzegovina was described as ‘active’ which was pretty accurate. It was bookended by two natural wonders, the Postojna Caves in Slovenia and the Plitvice National Park in Croatia. Both visits were a sensory overload, with visual splendours so impressive you can’t quite grasp they are real and not some giant digitally enhanced 3D projection. We’ve ignored cave tours in other countries as NZ’s Waitomo complex has a reputation for being world standard. Waitomo is wonderful, but Postojna is something else – 25km of cavernous sculptural wonderland. First you are taken on an open train through 5 km of the cave system, Indiana Jones style with minimal OSH warnings – we all ducked reflexively anyway as it raced around corners, overhangs and stalagmite formations at a speed and proximity ... read more

Day 247 Wednesday 21st September 2016 – Zadar to Zagreb Early start, and out of bed and packing our bags. Shelley not happy about moving and I think she could just about nest in Zadar except the town is heading for winter and the first hint of cold and she would be out of here. Had breakfast at the café around the corner and then completed our packing and marched the twenty minutes to the bus station. Had to check out of our apartment before 10 and our bus wasn’t till 11.30 so we had a nice long wait for our bus. The journey to Zagreb went without a hitch along an incredibly well built freeway with lots of bridges and tunnels, one of which was over 5 kilometres long. Got to Zagreb at ... read more

Woolly says – Sometimes you have to grab your opportunities with both paws and when it’s FREE even the women found no argument with an evening in Zagreb. Leaping off the tram I glanced back to make sure that my party was following, first find the venue and then search for food, for a mammoth of my capabilities that should be easy! Venue found and possible piece of grass to sit on identified, now onto food, I looked round and spotting some umbrellas trotted over to see what the menu offered.....lots of drinks but nothing edible. The three of us stood looking for something to drop from the sky as Jo acknowledged that the King Tomislav Square area of the city was missing a trick in not having a single place to eat. We’re stood by ... read more

You have to love the mammoth when he tries to help, except for the amount of cleaning up afterwards which far surpasses the help given! Woolly says – Some people are so ungrateful, it wasn’t my fault that I had slipped in the butter and that the knife wouldn’t cut the cheese into anything other than rocks and I’m blaming the mice for the state of the bread! As I sat licking the mayonnaise off my paws Jo finished our picnic lunch and collected the many things that we seem to need on a day to day basis. A little cloudy overhead but warm, well actually very warm and rather muggy but that didn’t put me off our trip for the day. Having completed our bus and tram route which we all seem to know by ... read more