Croatia
What a wonderful country! The parts I saw, from Dubrovnik to Split and back again, were a rugged combination of scree based mountains towering grayly into the sky, rock (not pebble) beaches and idyllic islands.
The first day there we stayed in Dubrovnik. We had a good wander around the old town/castle which has been entirely converted into tourism. Quite amazing though, with all walls and floors made from the same polished white rock; sometimes a little painful on the eyes! We missed out on the wall walk because it was only the beginning (that day) of tourist season, so not everything was in full flow.
On Saturday we headed up to Split, 4.5 hours away by bus including 15 minutes of travel through Bosnia/Herzegovena. This trip was amazing, at first I thought I'd get bored with the monotonous landscape, but instead I was inspired.
Split itself is based around an old roman palace which, when the romans left, was turned into a walled town with apartments and shops and so on. Next ot it is 'old town' which has even narrower alleys which twist and turn in quite unpredictable ways.
This is the tourist area and the area we spent most of our time in, but some 250k people live in Split, and so it is a lot larger than Dubrovnik with only 35k or so. Consequently the nightclub (Metropolis) that we went ot on Saturday night was much larger and more populated - we danced until 3 and then somehow found our way home on foot (having caught a taxi there by some circuitous route).
Sunday we were up early again (remember, Jo only needs 4 hours sleep...) and ferried across to the nearest island; Brac. We just hung around in Supetar as the bus trip was 40 minutes one way. The girls sunbaked while I read - they ended up in a lot of pain so thankfully I brought some aloe vera after sun stuff.
We headed back a bit early and couldn't really think of anything to do (except catch a bus to some ruins, but people didn't really hav ethe inspiration to do that). So we just walked around the bay until we found a nice restaurant that we ended up eating dinner at.
(In fact, the number one activity of the trip was eating followed closely by drinking)
Monday we bussed back (turns out that the timetable of ferries could have worked for us if we'd caught the ferry up, and so we could have seen more, but we didn't know so that's that) and met up with Kathy and Scott who we had left in Dubrovnik. We grabbed a bite before heading back to the plane and flying home.
We were all a bit tired so didn't talk much :)
Anyway, thanks Dunya for suggesting her wonderful homeland as our destination (BTW Croatian women are typically quite tall - taller than me with high heels on)
The first day there we stayed in Dubrovnik. We had a good wander around the old town/castle which has been entirely converted into tourism. Quite amazing though, with all walls and floors made from the same polished white rock; sometimes a little painful on the eyes! We missed out on the wall walk because it was only the beginning (that day) of tourist season, so not everything was in full flow.
On Saturday we headed up to Split, 4.5 hours away by bus including 15 minutes of travel through Bosnia/Herzegovena. This trip was amazing, at first I thought I'd get bored with the monotonous landscape, but instead I was inspired.
Split itself is based around an old roman palace which, when the romans left, was turned into a walled town with apartments and shops and so on. Next ot it is 'old town' which has even narrower alleys which twist and turn in quite unpredictable ways.
This is the tourist area and the area we spent most of our time in, but some 250k people live in Split, and so it is a lot larger than Dubrovnik with only 35k or so. Consequently the nightclub (Metropolis) that we went ot on Saturday night was much larger and more populated - we danced until 3 and then somehow found our way home on foot (having caught a taxi there by some circuitous route).
Sunday we were up early again (remember, Jo only needs 4 hours sleep...) and ferried across to the nearest island; Brac. We just hung around in Supetar as the bus trip was 40 minutes one way. The girls sunbaked while I read - they ended up in a lot of pain so thankfully I brought some aloe vera after sun stuff.
We headed back a bit early and couldn't really think of anything to do (except catch a bus to some ruins, but people didn't really hav ethe inspiration to do that). So we just walked around the bay until we found a nice restaurant that we ended up eating dinner at.
(In fact, the number one activity of the trip was eating followed closely by drinking)
Monday we bussed back (turns out that the timetable of ferries could have worked for us if we'd caught the ferry up, and so we could have seen more, but we didn't know so that's that) and met up with Kathy and Scott who we had left in Dubrovnik. We grabbed a bite before heading back to the plane and flying home.
We were all a bit tired so didn't talk much :)
Anyway, thanks Dunya for suggesting her wonderful homeland as our destination (BTW Croatian women are typically quite tall - taller than me with high heels on)
3 Comments:
And when were you wearing high heels!
reply to Neek:
It's what 'Open' source programming does to you.... I've been sucking coffee through TimTams watching Desperate Housewives and wearing fluffy slippers - oops .
You know you're a climber when you use the word 'scree' in your review of a holiday.
Good to hear you had a good time though.
Ash.
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