Croatia Travel Blogs

... to where our driver was heading. After several km we caught a Turkish man, another lorry driver. While we were driving through the whole Croatia, I managed to catch up with sleep in the cabin bed of the Turkish man, for about 1,5h. At 5pm we were around ...

A travel blog entry from Zupanja by bogna
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Once again we decide to extend our glorious stay at the Amfora hotel in Hvar and completely write-off Split.  We wake up just in time to get the last available room and surprise, surprise, we have to change rooms again. We head down to the ...

A travel blog entry from Hvar by madman96
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Hot. So fucking hot. Near Zagreb's main square, I lounge on beautifully comfortable couches, protected from death by magnificent, flaring umbrellas, accompanied by an espressoand ice tea. In the draining heat, the coffee keeps me awake, the latter ...

A travel blog entry from Zagreb by marktjhung
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POLSKI: Ponownie szlismy spory kawal drogi, nie bylo gdzie stanac, bo droga byla bez pobocza i przez dluzszy moment bez chodnika. W koncu stanelismy na jakims kawalku skwerka przed prywatnym domem i stamtad zabralo nas malzenstwo w srednim wieku. ...

A travel blog entry from Dubrovnik by bogna
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... We thought the 4 -6 hour tour looked about right to us. We weren't alone by any means here as it is one of Croatia's most popular natural tourist attractions, but there were still times when we were all alone along the walking trails. The trails wander ...

A travel blog entry from Plitvicka Lakes by peteandmandy
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... (A$16) but cut the trip down to four hours. We stayed in the same place that we stayed last week but paid an extra 35 Kuna (A$8) for a room with a kitchen. Next we get back on the tourist trail with what is apparently one of Croatia's highlights...

A travel blog entry from Starigrad by peteandmandy
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We get into Belgrade at 7 am and walked around downtown for 3 hours before hopping back on the train to Zagreb. Zagreb is beautiful and we walk around before finding an outdoor café/restaurant to have dinner at and watch the Euro 2008 finals.  ...

A travel blog entry from Zagreb by madman96
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I head straight to the old town to do a walk on the city walls before finding a good spot at the hotel beach to finally fall asleep for a few hours.  I wake up and grab the "complementary" breakfast yet again before returning to my "bed" and falling ...

A travel blog entry from Hvar by madman96
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A travel blog entry from Baska by baileyandkerry
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... acid had dissolved and was wreaking havoc in our stomach, our gas ran out halfway through cooking tea (and the biggest campsite in Croatia didn't sell gas), the dryers had broke so our clean clothes began to smell, and it didn't stop raining for 3 days. ...

A travel blog entry from Novalja by baileyandkerry
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Day 6 (Dubrovnik) Open the curtains and we're sailing down the Croatian coastline. We go to breakfast around 7:30.  The croissants don't get 10 stars today, but the breakfast is good.  Head out on deck and we're approaching Dubrovnik.  I ...

A travel blog entry from Dubrovnik by aussiepanda
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I wake up early and head down to the Croatia Airlines office at 8 am as we have decided that enough is enough with the trains... I book flights for us that leave 3 hours later and then go for a run around the old city.  We have breakfast and head to ...

A travel blog entry from Dubrovnik by madman96
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I was off to Hvar today, apparently it is the place to be right now, and is also the sunniest of all the Croatian islands.  I got up early to make sure I got a ticket for the catamaran boat, I haven't had a lie-in past about 8.30am yet, urgh. Ticket ...

A travel blog entry from Hvar by hels_belles
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From the strange news file: A Croatian man has drunk nothing but Coca-Cola for the past 40 years after making a promise to his mother that he would not touch alcohol. Pero Ajtman, 71, of Karanac, started drinking Coke in 1968 and has vowed to carry ...

A travel blog entry from Croatia by happysheep
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Before we even got off the bus the touts were marking their intended victims. Our man´s brochure looked promising so we jumped in his van. He had said the bus station was a 10 minute walk away and the old town was 15 minutes away. We sped up a hill to ...

A travel blog entry from Dubrovnik by lucinate
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Quote of the Moment "We are the middle children of history, with no purpose or place" - Fight Club So there we are - being served German beer and Rusian vodka by a Croatian waitress in an Irish and JRR Tolkien themed pub in uptown Zagreb, ...

A travel blog entry from Zagreb by foolsgold
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It's JULY!!! REALLY!!! I head down to the hotel and enjoy the "complementary" breakfast before heading to the rocks/beach to secure a good spot... We spend the morning swimming and relaxing beachside.  I head upstairs to get the rental car ...

A travel blog entry from Kotor by madman96
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13th - 15th August 2007. We've been really busy at this stop. Swimming, reading, eating, swimming... We have been staying near a town called Starigrad in a small apartment block right on the water. That's right no more camping. Our room is about 15 ...

A travel blog entry from Starigrad by peteandmandy
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Yet another stunning drive, as we followed the coast down to Senj, and then cut east to the Freeway. Leaving Senj was incredible, and Laura maintained very well (considering) as we immediately ascended about 3000ft in a series of switchbacks on a narow ...

A travel blog entry from Zadar by akawally
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The Friday morning ferry to Korcula left at 8am, which was unfortunate but manageable. The boat was enormous and full of backpackers, which made me feel like I was back in Thailand! The trip was freezing and windy at first due to poor seat choices, but ...

A travel blog entry from Korcula/Hvar/Split by easyread
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More and more, it seemed that Northern Croatia was closed for the season, and the signs seemed to be urging us southward. After seeing the roman collesium in Pula, we looked around for a hotel and then decided to drive to Rijeka to provide an early ...

A travel blog entry from Rijeka by akawally
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... were some interesting statues, sculptures and fountains around the city too. After the four ancient towns we'd visited in Croatia, this was a complete turnaround. It had a very western european feel. It was really enjoyable. We had bought onward ...

A travel blog entry from Zagreb by lucinate
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... allowing the bus network to compete.  We rolled into Dubrovnik, a city of about 45,000 positioned apart from the rest of Croatia annexed by a strip of Bosnian territory that cuts through Croatia to the coast.  It is in the southern most part of the country ...

A travel blog entry from Dubrovnik by meganandkevin
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... Ireland, and Switzerland.  It sure makes a five-hour journey go by much more quickly.  We rolled into Zagreb, the capital of Croatia, and were pleasantly surprised.  We had heard a few not so nice stories about the place and most people don't seem to treat it ...

A travel blog entry from Zagreb by meganandkevin
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... and unspoilt mountains of Abruzzo on the way. From Pescara it was a quick 30 minute trip on the plane over to Split in Croatia. Izm staying in a private room, just off the central square of Split town, and next to the Dioclesian palace (dating from the 3rd ...

A travel blog entry from Split, Hvar island, Korcula island by aussierach
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... was a real stinker. We spent our days swimming and reading and exploring this incredible coastline. We hadn't done much research on Croatia before we left but we think it has overtaken Switzerland as our favourite country in Europe. The people are the ...

A travel blog entry from Dubrovnik by peteandmandy
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Despite what the photos suggest the weather has not been lovely, and we suffered several days of torrential rain. From lovely (but wet) Korcula island I caught the bus to DUbrovnik. Izm staying in a nice house with two Australian girls, about 15 minutes ...

A travel blog entry from Dubrovnik by aussierach
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We wake up slowly and wind up extending our stay in Hvar another night but have to change rooms.  We set up shop at the hotel pool and enjoy a relaxing day by the pool and beach doing not much of anything other than having fun and meeting new people, ...

A travel blog entry from Hvar by madman96
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... by no means does it suggest anything.  It would be hard to imagine that happening in any relationship if you visit Croatia's second largest city in the heart of the Dalmatian Coast.  Split is incredibly beautiful, and like its southern neighbour, Dubrovnik, ...

A travel blog entry from Split by meganandkevin
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... time in Croatia and along the Dalmatian Coast. We found both to be incredibly beautiful and relaxing. Our first stop in Croatia, the Istrian province, felt very much like Cinque Terre in Italy. This part of Croatian was under Italian rule for many ...

A travel blog entry from Dubrovnik by chronometers
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