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Travel Blogs from Stara Novalja
Cough cough cough
Forgot to add into our blog. We must be the only people not smoking in the whole of Croatia and Italy. Every table has at least one smoker. Ashtrays everywhere. Ugh. Music played at every restaurant is a radio station, all English music but no one here speaks ...
Staying in hotel with dead bears
Went through pag island today. Only island have ever seen which is basically rocks hardly ant vegetation. Is approx 40k long. Very harsh land but interesting. Then up what felt like 3ks in the air on a twisting road, my toes clutching the floor of the car on every inch. On our way to national park plitvice lakes tomorrow. Tonight suppose to be 3degrees so mountain country as eating dinner tonight with dead bears and dead eagle. ...
Trieste, Slovenia, Croatia
... lunch. Ninety-nine percent of Slovenia is land locked, with the exception of the tiny slice that is coastline which we cycled through in about 2 hours. It was beautiful, absolutely beautiful, but brief. It seems that Slovenia got the short end of the real estate stick after the breakup of Yugoslavia. In any case, we happened upon favorable weather, a very friendly local cyclist who showed us the Slovenian bike path, and then a spectacular thunderstorm and northeast wind called ...
The Island of Pag
Yesterday we left Zadar and drove up the coast to Pag. The coast line turned really rugged and the land was barren, it looked totally deserted. The weather changed from a nice 31 degrees when we were in the National Park to a cool 14degrees yesterday with gale force winds. What happened to our summer? Maybe it is over for us, I hope not. With there not a lot to do in Pag when the weather is so bad, we drove up the coast about 20kms to a town called Novalja. This was a little beach ...
Sun sea n snorkels
... getting in/out over the sharp rocks (which has led me to discover that both Simon and Nick are in fact big pansies)
We also made it round to the next bay bit and there was a kind of concreted part smooth enough to sit/lay on. Really hot n not a cloud in the sky we had fights over the lilo we had purchased and then all took it in the sea anyway. Again lots of fish n totally clear sparkly water to keep us busy. Plus a fun inflatable we had to chase ...