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me near Ston and Broce
The second longest wall in the world in the background! Alright. Where am I? Who am I with? What is the meaning of life? It's all solved here.
I have inherited Nick's, my new travel partner, camera which has video capability. You will see what I see soon, just not now.
This is again a quick entry (rush rush rush!).
Quick travel update:
Alright, so we're chillin in Korcula town on Korcula island today. The sword dance starts in an hour and I have to eat some cevapcici prior! Here's my plan, quickly, for the next days:
25 Korcula
26 Orebic to Split in the car
27 Split to Krka National Park to Zadar
28 explore Pag
29 explore Plitvice National Park
30 the guys return the car to Dubrovnik and I'm set free, en route to Trieste to meet Massiimo June 1st
Stories that don't suck:
Hi. Last I wrote we had this vision to rent a car and wander throughout Croatia. This vision became reality yesterday so we set off from Dubrovnik north towards Peljesac Peninsula. This peninsula is famous for its wine, seafood, and the walled town of Ston (and Mali Ston). Supposedly the wall adjoining the two is the longest in Europe,
and second in the world to the great wall of China. The funny thing is, there isn't much documentation and tourism surrounding it other than a passing blurb in my travel book. My friend at UBC Domogoj mentioned it as being undiscovered by tourists. True, until now. So we checked it out and eventually got some cheese, bread, salami and wine and chilled out in Broce for lunch #1. In all the towns so far on our mission, we were blown away by the beauty but also by the desolation. I had heard the coast wasn't really populated until the proper summer months, and now I can verify this. In Broce, we sat on the end of a pier sticking out in the middle of a straight with wooded green hills on each side of the water and had the entire landscape to ourself except.
It was such an awesome lunch that a few towns later, we decided to have another one. We had heard the region (Peljesac Peninsula, for those still reading) was famous for its seafood. In the surrounding seas, there are countless farms for mussels and oysters. We came across one that presented the opportunity to
taste their crop. After placing our order (which was just a count of how many oysters you want), the waitress walked out on their pier, reached into the water, grabbed the appropriate number of oysters, and returned to the kitchen to prep them. Pretty damn fresh! (although at a cost, as we later learned. I'm just trying to justify their worth because how often are you in such a situation.)
The rolling hills of the peninsula meant that I was driving slow to take in the scenary, much to the dismay as some dickhead drivers who made impossible overtakes threatening the lives of multiple cars. The good thing for them is that they made it whereever they needed to 1 minute earlier. And for me, I didn't have their dumbass on my tail giving Nick, June, and I time to soak it all in.
We made it to the ferry town of Orebic near the end of the peninsula. Its major significance is that it is a ferry town to the famous island/town of Korcula (where I write this from). Other than being the birthplace of Marco Polo, it is famous for its sword dances (called moreska), which
I'm rushing this entry so I can go see for myself. It is a sort of mini-Dubrovnik in the sense that it is a walled medieval city. Needless to say, I've gotten medieval on Korcula! All the excitment has caused Nick, June and I to paint our bodies with our trips motto, simply put "CROATIA 2006!!!!". We scream this and follow it with excessive excitement (picture spring break in the US in Florida with drunk 20 year olds). It's pretty intense.
So the day (and indeed all of our days) involved a lot of GO GO GO!! Given this, we decided to actually stay 2 nights in Korcula. Ultimately, our goal is to utilize the car as much as possible, so as the schedule above indicates, this will resume tomorrow. Our dream destination is the national park of Plitvice, famous for its waterfalls. The Krka national park also has waterfalls, so we will see it too. Pag is supposedly party central but difficult to get to minus a car. So we foresaw lots of running around so decided to hang out in Korcula today to take in the weekly sword dance and also to check out the beach at
CROATIA 2006!!!!!
wheeewwwwwwwwww!!!!! Lombarda, 15 minutes away on the island by bus.
When we went to the beach, the bus dropped us off in the middle of a vineyard. To get to the beach, we had to walk 5 minutes past the vineyard to the large secluded harbor where we rested for a solid couple of hours (a lot for us!). It was fun because Nick brought a snorkle and a mask. So we took turns escaping into the silence of the underwater world. The bottom was mostly sand with the rare fish but regardless it was still a nice time to catch our breath, write in my journal, and plan our remaining trip with the help of Lonely Planet Croatia (both French and English editions as both of my travelmates are Quebecoix). FYI, I think the beach/sea itself was called Vela Przina, but I don't know Croatian so maybe someone can fill me in there!
So ya, that's where things are and that's where they are going. Hopefully I'm painting the picture well! The hostel we are in is the lone hostel in Korcula and called creatively the Happy Hostel. We had heard about it from hostelmates past but only now have experience the hospitality of the South African owner. Every night there is a movie (I'm missing it now!) and then people meet and go out, so it is quite fun and communal. Overall its a nice place to rest and relax!
Tomorrow we go back to Orebic at 9am to get our car and do the land portion of our journey. I can't wait to post the pictures because Croatia's coast is a million times more amazing than I had ever imagined. And it's so much fun to travel with these cool guys.
CROATIA 2006!!!! WHEEEEEEEEWWWWWWW!!!!
Tonight, our goal is to scream "Marco" and have others reply "Polo" (it's a popular game in the pool as a child in North America, I promise). It will happen, oh yes, it will.
That's all for now. Not sure when I'll have Internet next but the schedule is above so if you wanna meet up, drop me a mail and prey!
Thanks again for the support and mails and comments, etc.
b-radimir
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Marika
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Hey Bradimir! Are you going to Italicize and Germanize yourself later?? Can't wait for that!!