Blogs from Croatia, Europe - page 183

Pag was just a detour on the way to the Plitvice National Park which is far lusher and greener than anything else we had seen so far of Croatia. To get there we are now travelling inland on Croatia's lovely new motorways. i especially like the tunnels, one was 6kms long!! I have taken a video of this so those at home can also enjoy my motorway obsession. You lucky, lucky people!! The National Park is a bunch of lakes at different levels with a lot of waterfalls in between. Quite nice esppecially as you can catch a rubber tyred train up to the top and only have to walk down. I thought it was no nicer really than NZ, but it was more fun watching the locals and the germans who got all excited about ... read more

Another week, another country! Well that's how it feels at the moment anyway... we are barely back from one trip and next weekend we are going to Berlin! Whoa. But first things first. We finally had a chance to take the holiday we'd been thinking about for a while, a road trip to Croatia. And while we were at it we also chucked Slovenia and Bosnia into the mix. We don't want to lose our Australian ability to drive long distances (people get soft in Europe!), and there's not much chance of it after that effort! And all done sans GPS... handy having a GPS with 'Europe maps' when apparently anything east of CZ isn't considered Europe! Slovenia After travelling to Ljubljana, and staying in our only pre-arranged hotel room of our trip, we decided to ... read more

We caught the car ferry from Hvar to Split. It takes about 2 hours and fortunately for us, as it would have been a waste of 2 hours under normal circumstances, it was incredibly stormy, thunderstorms and lightning!! The ferry is huge though, so mostly not scared.... mostly. Arriving into Split, we really wondered what was going on.. It looks like Eastern Europe after it had a hard night, got mugged, and then was used by a ferral animal as a toilet. Fortunately, Split has a very nice older city part with lovely little streets, the famous Diocelen Roman Palace, some cool shops, and a lovely seaside promenade. We therefore based ourselves inside the nice bit, and I promptly ate my first McDonalds of the trip (McRoyal with Cheese :) Also, bought about half of the ... read more

We got up early and booked a Walls & Wars tour of the city which involved a 2km walk around the top of the Dubrovnik Walls. Great views, really super stuff. Our guide Michael was a young Croatian Goth type dude who kept saying 'Is it OK?' at the end of every explanation. Oh, our apartment has great views here too, everything does, you really cant go wrong.. except for the 200 steps to our apartment from the street. Legs of pure rubber!!! ... read more

On Saturday 18th August we caught the ferry across from Split to the Island of Brac, the closest island to Split and a journey of one hour. We arrived in the main island town of Supetar and then caught a bus around to the village of Sutivan, where we had booked an apartment for two weeks. It was unbelievably hot when we finally got to Sutivan with limited directions on how to find our apartment, however we managed to find it even if we walked twice as far as was necessary. The village of Sutivan was small with only a couple of restaurants, two small supermarkets and a bakery and whilst there were some tourists staying there it also had a local feel which is what we were after. The beach, like most Croatian beaches was ... read more