Rijeka
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Rijeka, Croatia
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 ...
Patience is a virtue
... in this case I think it more refers to the fact that the city is a port. That is about it too...just a port. I flew into Rijeka and I get off the plane on this tarmac that looks like I am the flying doctor or something. The terminal was a tin shack about ...
Is It Wrong to Love a Power Plant?
I spent much of this morning driving through Croatia's coastal mountains. One particularly lovely ocean inlet was dominated by a giant coal-fired power plant. I expect most people would have thought this ruined the scene, but I'm an engineer at heart ...
Rejuvinating Rijeka
... We caught an overnight train from Venice to Zagreb and got a connecting train early in the morning...and got in to Rijeka at midday. The scenery on the train ride was fantastic....going down the mountain towards the coastline...just brilliant. ...
Day 267 - Road to Fiume (Rijeka)
... our eastern facing window thanks to the incredible 'blackout' shutters. Mia thinks this is a European phenomenon and not just Croatia. Regardless it is great for sleeping. This reminds us of the prevailing question we have been considering since ...
bucsu...és hazafelé
... nekem. és aztmonta hogy egszerüen ugy tudok eljutni a határhoz hogy este kviisz ngem egy helyre aohl sok kmaiion áll rijeka közelébe... és majd valmeylik biztos elvsiz a határhoz ha éjfélt üt az ora.merthogy akkrovan vége a kamionstopnak... ...
18hr Boat Journey
the boat journey wasn't as bad i thought it was going to be. despite orginally planning to sleep on deck, once the wind picked up it was inevitable that we were going to have to go inside. However, during the journey the view was great. we passed so many ...
The Guerin children - new blog May 2007
... name for our motorhome and have settled on TITO the KETTLE VAN! It has been lots of fun learning words in different languages - in Croatia you say "dobar dan" for hello and "do vidjenja" for good-bye. We miss you and are thinking of you. Love ...
At long last - another entry from Croatia
... Dolomites (alps) was fabulous and we have decided our retirement will include some time here each year. We are now in Croatia, on the Istrian Peninsular (the new Tuscany) and it is fabulous. Lots of Italian cuisine, the clearest stretches of the ...
Rijeka
... . No bikes. After handing over 150 Kronas, the bikes were safely stowed underneath with no further fuss, and we bused through Croatia towards the coast. I did notice that a couple of places were pretty shot up, a reminder that this was a war zone ...
Adriatic Sea Part 7
... fish in abundance!!! I hope my mate Eric from work sees some of the photos - he might have his next holiday in Croatia. :-) For the sunset we went back to Crikvenica where we had another perfect sunset (you got to see the photos). ...
"Hey Lady, do you need a room?"
... we caught an early bus to Zadar, the scenery on the way down was beautiful. The road followed the coastline all the way down. Croatia is a lot more arid than I thought it was - with white rock hills with a little speckling of vegetation here and there. ...
Rijeka, Croatia
So we stazed at Tina and Ninas house for two nights. It was fun to hang out with some good friends (also including Lada). Went to some bar that had all these toarches and then were plazing some live Croatian music including Bjelo Dugme (pretty good ...
Km 760, durch den Schneesturm
... so konnte ich dann die restlichen 50km bei nur noch starkem Schneefall geniessen..;) Abends um 17.00 Uhr bin ich dann in Rijeka eingefahren, wo die Temperaturen schon wieder angenehmer waren und es auch keinen Schnee mehr hatte, da ich wieder am Meer ...
At home in Eastern Europe
... misspellings. The keyboard is tough to handle. We left Portland, Or with a stop in Chicago and Frankfurt. The trip from Frankfurt to Croatia was brutal. The worst turbulence Ive ever been in I think. A student that is part of our team had to use the ...
At sea
... up until about 10 by just constantly moving. Oh yeah, coffee helped too! Our goal was to get to Rijeka, a major transportation hub in northern Croatia, as shown here: We landed at the Trieste airport at 9:30 am and due to fortunate timing with the ...
In search of Kukuljani.
There were two reasons for us to stop in Rijeka. Firstly, to visit the Kukuljan clan and secondly, to confirm that the town of Kukuljani actually existed. Not, of course, because I didn't believe Andrew when he told me of it but because you know, and I ...
Arrivée en Croatie
... une raison pratique (prendre le bus pour l'île de Cres au plus vite), nous décidons de ne pas descendre au terminus (Rijeka) mais ŕ l'arręt Opatija-Matulji auquel nous pensons pouvoir récupérer la ligne de bus Rijeka-Cres. Notre surprise est aussi ...
CROATIA
... to meet Ploce, a modern city not particularly interesting, the river Neretva and its large valley and surprise, before arriving in Croatia again in Dubrovnik you have to pass a short coast that belongs to Bosnia and Herzegovina, practically the city of ...
Not much here!
Just a pit stop, overnight, to catch the fast ferry to Rab Island, at 5AM.....a ferry that never showed up! Off to the bus station with all the after-hours shady characters at that time of ...
Out come the pom poms....
We arrived at our hotel near Rijeka after midnight, and after being told that Dumball had managed to get a local club to open specially for us (it was a Sunday night) but that if we didn't go then some poor girl would get fired. We dumped our bags and ...
Äventyr? Jo, tack!
... 'gde vi till och med att svälja vĺra ord och gĺ till hostellet. Men sen slägde jag fram idén om att ĺka nattĺget till Rijeka istället, mest pĺ skämt, men Eb sa direkt att det gör vi, vi har sett tillräckligt av denna stad. Sĺ vi begav oss ...
Mountain Crossing
We made up alot of time here. After leaving Vienna we headed for Rijecka with one over night stop. It was evening time we traveled so drink had to be consumed. We traveled all along the coast of Croatia. It a beautiful coast line well worth ...
How much does food, drink & TV rule your life?
... to be a waste of a day of holidays. I'm trying to relax and I figured doing a bit of shopping would be perfect for that. Rijeka has some impressive clothing stores so I was full of excitement as I made my way out of the backpackers I'd just checked into. ...
Rijeka
... coastal towns to get to and after all our running around we wanted a chilled out day to ease off a little. Rijeka is the third biggest city in Croatia after Zagreb and Split and is basically a port town. We arrived to what seemed like a ghost town - ...
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