Blogs from Dalmatia, Croatia, Europe - page 82

Apart from taking a trip into Dubrovnik itself on one day for a few hours we just plan to blob out here and the apartment and hotel set up should do us just nicely. It is nice being able to get a full breakfast and this morning Gretchen made her favourite poached eggs only to find that she didn't have a utensil to get the eggs out of the pan.A large spoon had to suffice in the end.You have to break the eggs to eat them anyway I say. Breakfast was on our terrace and with nowhere to go for the day other than the shop for some lunch and dinner,it was a leisurely affair. It is another beautiful day and if we are to do a short walk we will make it before lunch and ... read more

Rab Days 10-12 (September 1-3) We reversed our local bus trip back to the bus station and boarder our coach for the journey to Rab, I managed to stop in the bakery to get some burek (zeljanica) for breakfast they were fresh from the oven. Even more amazing coastline for this stretch of the journery. Visible from the mainland were long thin islands that were denuded of trees due to a wind that came through the area. These islands were a clay pink in colour and they eflecteion they made in the surrounding crystal clear blue waters created a breathtaking view. The road skirted the coast for most of the way similar to the great ocean road. We had a connecting bus to catch that would take us to Rab Isaland. Our leader assured us that ... read more

Somehow the theme of this trip ended up being ‘What would Putin do?’, strange but true. Scott and I, plus two good friends Adam and Myles headed for Croatia for 10days of sun, island hopping and bottles of Croatian’s finest vino (read horrid). We set out early Saturday morning with my work laptop backpack full of clothes, the night before we had a minor disaster. After our Sri Lanka trip we decided to throw away Scott’s backpack, clean forgetting this fact I merrily lent by backpack to Adam and it wasn’t until 11pm Friday evening we realised our predicament. Lucky the laptop backpack I have been given was large enough to fit a small child, so we jammed all our clothes in there. It meant we had to be pretty ruthless with items taken, which worked ... read more

Wow - Croatia! We have had the most amazing time here. It has truly been the highlight of our trip and I am absolutely in love with this beautiful country. I had no idea it would be so amazingly excellent. I wish that we never had to leave but I know I'll never forget how spectacular this part of our journey was. We started in Split after taking the overnight ferry over from Ancona. Split has some great markets and I spent half my day ˝browsing˝ for dresses and sarongs. We stayed at a great campsite (Camp Stobrec) 6km outside of Split and after setting up camp, we drove to the airport to pick up Stef and Jess and Jason who were all flying in from London. The next day was departure day - woohoo!! When ... read more

Split - Day 6-8 (28-30 August) We left Korcula at 5:45am taking a Catamaran Ferry for a few hours journey to Split. Split is a larger town on the Dalmatian mainland but it too has an old town, or more correctly a palace compound. We stayed right in the heart of it. The palace was of the Roman Emperor Diocletian, who loved Split for it’s beautry and therapuetic thermal spas. He built himself a palace here in the late 3rd century, for holidays and later for retirement. However, after his death it became disused and some time later (7th century) permission was given to some Romans to return from their exile and to set up insdie the palace area. Accordingly, many of the palace buildings are no longer there, having been replaced by ordinary dwellings, but ... read more