Hvala Hrvatska! (Part 1)
July 21st 2007 I was supposed to catch a ferry from Venice to Pula, but baulked when I saw the 74€ price tag. Instead, I took a train to the border town of Trieste with my Eurail pass, and then caught a bus to Pula for the princely sum of 12.50€ (my train pass doesn't work in Croatia).
Italy doesn't actually border Croatia, so the bus had to go through Slovenia, famous for being mountainous, and it's easy t
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