Plaza San Marino Rab

Just spent all day yesterday at the beach, alternating between sleeping on the shore and lazing on a lie-low on the ocean. beautiful day, not a cloud in the sky, clear blue ocean. exactly what we all needed to recharge after 15 days of non stop moving around. I think everyone that got swineflued is now recovered, so we should be good to go for the next 12 days :( until the end of the trip.

Pag, Zadarska, Croatia ellemojo

... old Pension/pub for a couple of nights.

Back to Czech for a couple of days to regroup and copious amounts of laundry! Road trip to Croatia was pretty long - took us around 10.5 hours..sure it seemed a lot longer for Jarrad who drove the entire way.

Well worth it though. We have decided to leave the main island and Island hop to the bottom of Croatia ...

... y trouve les anciennes maisons des officiers de marine, de nombreux bateaux de plaisance ainsi que des petits chantiers navals.

Comme toute nouvelle arrivée, nous partons à la recherche d'une chambre et d'un comptoir pour acheter nos billets pour le prochain catamaran :
- 1er arrêt | Office de Tourisme : "Pour les chambres, il faut aller demander à l'agence de location après la Poste".
- 2e arrêt | Point info dans un bar : "Vous avez une ...

So we drive down to Croatia. We thought it would be a great idea to wear our bikins as we drive so we get tanned... brilliant plan... that was until we got to the border and thought, whoops. Luckliy there was a car in front and we quickly put clothes on. In my haste I put my dress on back to front and inside out.... The guy then asked if we had anything to declare and was in hysterics when we laughed and said only 3 beers ...

... les poissons et éviter les piqûres d'oursins. Le paysage côtier est magnifique et l'eau limpide. Nous répèterons l'opération 1h30 de marche plus loin, puis sur le chemin du retour.

Cette journée nous a ouvert l'appétit : dîner dans une "spaghetteria" sur le port accompagné d'un succulent vin blanc et retour à la chambre pour une bonne nuit.

L'arrivée sur cette île marque réellement le début de notre voyage. Cette petite ville paraît sortir de nulle part!

Les îles de Cres et de Losinj ne formaient qu'une à l'époque des Liburniens (1600 av J-C). C'est pour faciliter la navigation qu'il construisèrent un chenal d'eau de mer au niveau de la ville d'Osor. Aujourd'hui, Cres et Mali Losinj font partis des villes principales des 2 ...

Great little place to relax, with plenty of beaches (topless, nude or otherwise), hiking, boating and more. Heavily touristed by northern Europeans, with lots and lots of skin on the beaches and boats, and a very interesting medieval town made for wandering tourists.

A short catamaran ferry ride and we landed in the town of Novalja on the nearby island of Pag but it is a world away from the quiet medieval Rab! Here the promenade was filled with tourist stalls one after the other; bars and restaurants blaring out their music, and all filled with people doing their best to consume the island's supply of alcohol. It is not surprising that Pag has earned the title "Ibiza ...

... the harbour and across the road from the boat we chose for our outing tomorrow.

We finished off the evening with a delicious pasta meal in a wine cellar where the wine was definitely worth writing home about! Good Croatian wine is worth buying if and when you can.

... popular with our camping neighbours. Still, they had us back on the road in 15 minutes and we beat a hasty retreat off the island and onwards in land. But to backtrack, we spent 5 days on the island and we really loved it. Its ournumber one place to return to so far. We spent the days relaxing, swimming, cycling etc. We did go to the cinema as the film was in English. It was cool having a beer, watching a film outdoors and the slightly ...