Blogs from Dalmatia, Croatia, Europe - page 81

We found a nice big campsite about 10km outside of Split. Our pitch was located right next to a very calm and shallow bay. We spent the next 2 days catching up on some much needed clothes washing, going shopping in Split Centre (for my upcoming birthday presents and cake!) and also catching up on skype. Friday 28th August was my birthday! I awoke to a fully cooked hearty breakfast from my lovely wife, complete with a beautifully presented set table including a central floral arrangement (well a single flower and some shrubbery in a plastic cup) and folded napkins. Suz had gone to a lot of effort with what she had to work with! After devouring almost three pigs worth of bacon it was present opening time. A brand new t-shirt and a nice new ... read more

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Our desire since arriving on the Adriactic coast is to buy some fresh fish to cook ourselves for dinner.But we are thinking that the Adriactic might just be fished out as we have been unable to find a fish shop since we left Dubrovnik.So we plan to give the local market a tryout this morning and see whether our faith might be restored. We don't plan to do anything else but some local walking to see how the locals live and take in the vistas as we head down the hill from the apartment we are staying in. With nothing to rush for we slept in and had a late breakfast and with the bonus of the internet we listen to Newstalk ZB talkback and Larry Williams.So we are up to date with all the current ... read more

OK........ I have literally spent the last week sailing in Croatia. I began in Split and took seven days to sail down to Dubrovnik. I joined an organised tour of 27 people and shared a room with an Aussie country girl Jodie. It was a fantastic week and one of the highlights of my summer. I flew into split from Milan Malpensa (italy) where I had stayed for 1 night. I never would have thought that getting from Greece to Croatia would be sooooooooo difficult. Even though they are so close not many airlines fly between the two for reasons unknown, but after a quick stop I was in Croatia. Unbelievably I met 4 australian guys in my hotel in Italy who also did a detour to make their way to Croatia and two of them ... read more

There is a promise of a weather change today and the day starts out with dark clouds overhead.It is still quite warm although we expect that once the rain arrives it will cool of somewhat. We have nothing planned again for today and because of that we didn't even think about getting out of bed until 9am when we started to get a bit hungary for breakfast. After the problem with getting the poached eggs out of the pan without the right utensil we decide on scrambled egg instead smothered with a generous portion of Vegemite from our sqeezeable tube which hopefully may last this whole adventure. We had to abandon breakfast on the terrace though as the rain came just as we were ready for the first course of cereals.Thankfully our room is well equipped ... read more