Blogs from Dalmatia, Croatia, Europe - page 114

We had a good day in Venice yesterday. We arrived at Korcula, Croatia this morning had a lovely stroll around there very pretty place then back to the Arcadia for lunch. Then loads of sun shine (weather now is glorious) a swim then sometime in the spar (NO NOT THE SPAR SHOP) the mineral water and aromatherapy spar you would love it. Just showered and changed. Here I am in the cyber shop left mam in the cabin getting changed ready for drinks in the Crows nest at 8pm before dinner at 8.30. Ooh it is ever so much hard work fitting everything that there is to do in each day. Sounds great hey, going to the Arcade and then to the Arcades, Bet he's gone to Harkers!!! and not cruising at all :) ... read more

It seems everyone has something to say about Croatia so we waved goodbye the British summer and spent a few weeks backpacking around the Dalmation coast. After leaving the busy port area of Split we caught a bus and headed along the coast. Passing along the way, the most beautiful inlets of inky blue water. Outside the (barely) air conditioned bus, the temperature was rising and the sky was deep blue. We passed stunning little towns such as Trogir and Primosten and we were soon both wishing we were touring the country in our own car - we would have loved to have stopped and explored them all. Croatia was certainly getting the thumbs up so far. We arrived at the small town of Sibenik, not expecting much as it was only serving as a stop-over ... read more

• 7-8 Hvar Rise and shine, it is time to find a smaller non connected chunk of land off the coast of Croatia. Oh yeah, its 730am, my “landlady” woke me up because she needed to keys to the place back… I would have discussed my dissatisfaction, but I do not believe she knew many other words in English other than “key”. I stuck it out anyway regardless of her taking the keys and headed towards the docks around 900am. I have not been on the internet or spoken with Camille in many days, so I stopped in a shop and spoke with her, and wrote a couple emails expressing my “aliveness”. Step two ride the hour long ferry to Hvar and find somewhere to stay. The ferry wasn’t bad, with the exception to the lady ... read more

We were sad to leave Budapest, but Hvar was a great change from the craziness of traveling over the past few weeks. We flew from Budapest to Split, Croatia on Tuesday morning, then took a ferry to the island of Hvar. Walking into the Split airport (with one backpack filled with wine, as well as one obviously marked "fragile" duffel bag, we walked through customs as if we had nothing to declare. Awesome. As we walked off of the ferry, we were bombarded with people heckling us, asking if we needed a place to stay. Fortunately, we had already booked a room with a lovely Croatian woman named Ivanka Ivanovic (of course). She picked us up at the harbor, and immediately became our Croatian mother, telling us where to go, eat, shop, swim, etc. She ... read more

First thing I got here, MY CAMERA. and guess what? TNT delivered it to the wrong city!!!! WTF???????? After a few expensive phone calls and stuff, They finally send it again through another company and it will arrive tomorrow morning. SUCKS, why? coz I got my ticket to Mostar before I got to the hostel and well. it was supposingly a 8am one. now, the camera is delayed for another day, so I need to switch to the afternoon bus, and paid like 50 Kunas more!!!!!!! AHHHHHHHHH!!! " Also after having to pay 60 Euros....I am short in Kunas...dun wanna take out more from the ATM, so decided to pay in Euros....-___-"....then I have more kunas left.....was thinking about eating it all but then....thats a little too luxurious..haaaa! Then thought about shopping for some nicer ... read more