Blogs from Dalmatia, Croatia, Europe - page 127

We had been looking forward to this trip for 6 months. We had high expectations.....and they were all met. Warm weather, cheap seafood, and swimming in the clear Adriatic Sea at exotic islands - What more can you want? Read on........or just look at the photos! Wednesday 7th June 2006 We assembled the troups at Luton Airport at the usual early hour that is required for cheap flights. This time we were flying with 'Wizz Air'. Needless to say the name of the airline didn't instill a lot of confidence, but beggars can't be choosers! The team (all of us Aussies) consisted of UK dwellers - Lauren, Nicole, Lauren O'Conner, Simone, Chelsea, Ryan, Mel and Us. Also joining us was Nicole, Jenny and Jason who were all on holidays from Aus. We arrived in Zagreb (Croatia's ... read more

We were up at 5.15a.m to check which port of the two our ferry was leaving from. On the ferry we all tried sleeping with varying degrees of success. When we landed at Hvar it was raining, and we were met by domati owners (I'm not sure if they are called this, they are in Greece), and even though it's not normally our thing we decided to go with one. By the time we had been walking for ten minutes, he said it would only take that long, we were beginning to have our doubts. We decided to have a look at the apartment, and even though we were unsure we went with it. While we were making up our mind, the bloke was gesturing at us arms outstretched, pulling faces (like 'you tight-arses'), and repeatedly ... read more

I LOVE LOVE LURVE Croatia. The people are so nice and speak English. The food is great. The town is beatiful and the weather for the first time ever is sunny and I am for the first day jacket free. I've been walking around with a huge grin on my face all day today. Last night was very rainy but tolerable as the weather wasn't very cold. We took our 3rd attempt at a Jazz bar and struck gold. I drank red wine and smiled and sang as the band played jazz and some pop music. At the end of the night I asked them to play Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars and they happily obliged. I was their favorite spectator of the evening as I was singing and clapping along with them. The funniest 3 ... read more

today we walked the city walls. incredible. thanks to everyone who's been reading and sending me messages and comments. i read them all to alistair and ryan. we love hearing about what's going on back home. tomorrow we leave for orebic and korcula. sad to leave dubrovnik but we must move on. dad- you would love dubrovnik. jazz, flan and people painting at the top of the city walls sounds like your ideal. not sure about golf here. might not be wise with landmines... we're on our way back to the jazz bar. it's 10:20pm here which is 1:20pm your time. until korcula...... read more

As my nephew Dylan would say, I'm at the place of "my people". We landed in Dubrovnik around 2pm. I was busy trying to catch up on my journal writing so I missed the landing but Alistair said it was the most amazing landing he'd ever seen. I should catch up on Vienna first though... Yesterday was FREEZING cold in Vienna. When the heavy wind would kick in (which was often) it was hard to walk and was quite horrible. In the morning I told the guys my only definate must do was to go to the house of Mozart. It was pretty cool. The audioplayer was in English and each room's message would play for so long that we'd end up sitting on a bench to finish listening to it. It started on the 4th ... read more