Blogs from Dalmatia, Croatia, Europe - page 91

We left Dubrovnik on another beautiful day and stopped after crossing over their impressive Franjo Tudjman Bridge, one of the largest single pylon, cable stayed bridges in the world, to take some photos. We then carried on up the Dalmatian coast and out to the Pelješac Peninsula which is a big wine growing region. The vines we saw here were quite different from those we saw in Italy, they were all only about a meter high and all gnarly and twisted. I didn’t look like they would produce as many grapes per vine compared to the Italian variety but there looked to be more vines per hectare - we were going to have to sample some. As we climbed up and over the peninsula the rocky lands gave way to forest and as we came over ... read more

welcome to croatia, and welcome to another exciting run of the official most boring blog on the interweb! winner! fun times ahead, as i follow my tradition of having an awesome first week, a difficult second week, a great third week and then probably home early! marvel at my lack of awareness that sarcasm and the internet do not work! be amazed at my confusion at the keyboards! enough of this drivel. i am currently in the lovely little croatian coastal town of zadar, and by gum its raining. lovely! arrived here this past wednesday on another of ryanairs glorious cheap flights. why are airlines always so eager to say that there is yet another on time flight? surely they should be on time. you dont get trains claiming to have another on time train. although ... read more

We then made our way to Split, thich is n the Dalmatia coast in the west. This town had a beautiful old city and amazing coast line. Our couch surfers here actually gave us an entire apartment to stay in! and cooked us thai food... yumm... read more

And so began the part of the trip I was most looking forward to: Croatia! As we have spent such a long time here, we've split (ahahahah unintentional pun there) the blogs up into separate bits to make it more digestible for you, fine readers. Alors. The journey to Split was another quite tricky one - we got up ridiculously early in Budapest to get the first bus at 5.15am back down the hill to the town, where we took another bus to the station. Unfortunately, the ticket system on the bus is a bit weird, you have to buy a booklet of tickets from a news stand before you get on, and James had accidentally misplaces those tickets. WIthout a news stand at the top of the hill, we had no option but to fare ... read more

Well we have made it a little further up the Adriatic coast to Dubrovnik, Croatia "the pearl of the Adriatic" or something... What a spot! Stari Grad (old town) is a totally walled in town of narrow alleys, high staircases and old buildings... well somewhat old. the towns been around a long time, but back in the war in the 90's a lot of it was damaged or destroyed. but its been fully restored and is a tourist magnet again. even this time of year there are a few people around. i can't image how hot, crowded and generally annoying it must be in summer though. but its just great this time of year! all the houses have red clay tiles for a roof, they'er all whitish stone (whitish meaning lots are almost black with dirt), ... read more