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Published: October 31st 2007
Hey! Lookit me!
Wow...this is just super!!!!!So, after a week in the Pest, we decide its time to dip into the birthplace of neckties and....uuummmmm.... well, its a cool country.
The itinerary was basically to hit up Zagreb (the capital) to check the party scene, then head to Split to check the largest still standing Roman fortress in Eastern Europe, then head to the entire purpose of our excursion to Croatia - the UNESCO World Heritage site of Dubrovnik with its famous walled old town.
ZAGREB
Well, there is nothing here, looks like a dead town, so we hit up Tolkiens House pub (primarily to make Kennah jealous, as he is a huge Lord of the Rings nerd (and Orlando Bloom fanclub president)) and then decided to just book it to Dubrovnik, about 6 hours south.
DUBROVNIK
The old town is really quite cool, as it is completely surrounded by this rather massive wall and all of the town is truly quite scenic. Especially when you got studs like the Cap and I garnering its walls. So, we came, took our pictures, pretty much conquered the city, and decided a day later to check out Split (yes thats a name of
Risotto Neru
Nothing quite like a plateful of risotto and squid fried in squid ink! a city, stupid eh?)
SPLIT
We arrived, realized the town was not the best for clubbing, so we ventured through the Old Town (basically every Euro city has an Old Town - thats crazy!!) took some pics, head into the basement of the fortress and played some Goldeneye. It was at this point we realized our best opportunity for the party was Zagreb...aaaahhhh yaya, back to the road.
ZAGREB
After splitting Split (HAHHAHHAHAHA, get it? get it? oh man, I need to write for SNL) we went to Zagreb where they have this wicked bar set up - all surrounding Jarun Lake.
(Aside - what is Vancouvers problem? Like serious, one street with a whole bunch of grungy silly clubs (not the Rox, I love the Rox), whereas a town like Zagreb which is one quarter of the population has a wicked lake surrounded by bars. Shameful.)
So after the Captain led us with his excellent navigational skills (read: we walked for 20 minutes, rather than take the tram) we ended up at the bars. Had some gross Coronas at a rap club and then booked it to a better club, complete
Tolkiens House
Ohhh, oohhhh, what is this Kennah??? If I recall correctly Penner had the Red Mordor and I the Gandalf... with large line. So after tampering with some flyers so as to get ourselves in for half price (we wrote GRATUIS on the back, but settled for 50% off) we commenced the drinking. Drinking of Tequila. Being the cheapest drink, the genius minds of the Cap and myself determined to drink only Tequilas until we were smashed. This eventually led us to the funnest drive of our lives...
The next day, after a checkout of 9am and sleeping in Marco and his brand new parking ticket, we decided to head to Bratislava. Now, maybe it was the Tequila, or the lack of sleep, or the fact we had been driving hundreds of kilometres the past few days, but Marco had a real rough day. First the aforementioned parking ticket. Then the rear-ending. Yup, Marco was feelin fiesty and decided to rear-end some poor Croat in a roundabout. Then the 35Euro toll booth ticket for taking the wrong way. Oh, and the 2 missed exits. Then the Hungarian and Guido who decided to pretty much merge into us. Yeah, Marco had his hands full for sure...
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These pictures are beautiful Steve. You really out did yourself this time.