Arbiana Rab

... for it!
Taking it easy again today, catching up on postcards, journal and facebook updates of course! missing everyone at home, and miss mama eddie who is back in sunny pommyland [and whom i had an interesting chat with a slightly worse-for-wear shano about last nite!]
Looking forward to Prague which I hear is beautiful, but will be sad to lose a few more topdeckers there.
xxx Leesa

We finished up the last leg of our road trip in Cesky Krumlov in Czech. It is the most amazing and well preserved medieval town in the country. They were too poor to rebuild the town in the 1800s - as a result everything has been well preserved from the 15-16th Centry. We have seen plenty of castles on our travels - but this one is something else. We stayed in a cool ...

... de ballades (voir de randonnées). N'hésitez surtout pas à demander une carte, elle se révèle très pratique.

Nous suivons son conseil et partons dans cette direction. Le trajet n'est pas long et nous atteignons rapidement la mer. L'endroit conseillé par notre hôte n'est pas difficile à trouver : il s'agit d'une plage bondée par les clients d'un hôtel situé juste au-dessus! Les rochers sont bien aménagés pour se baigner mais le nombre de ...

... all so we caught the bus to Krk Town and found a sheltered spot to swim there. We then found a note in our guide book about a wind called The Bura, and you can tell its coming when white clouds form over the mountains, which they had. It can get so strong it can tip cars over! The next morning it was worse so we gave up and headed inland..... after getting the shock of our lives with the campsite bill... so expensive!!!!

... cyclable, qui devient un chemin, qui devient un sentier... jusqu'à ce qu'on perde sa trace! Nous continuons à l'aveuglette en suivant le littoral. L'eau turquoise nous attire comme un aimant, nous devons nous arrêtez pour piquer une tête!

En Croatie, maillots de bain, chaussures d'eau et masques sont nécessaires pour vaincre les rochers ...

... toujours voir la chambre avant d'accepter, les tarifs sont peut-être moins élevés que ceux pratiqués par les agences de location mais peuvent réserver des surprises!

2ème conseil : préférer les agences de location car les chambres sont classées en étoiles. Vous pouvez également vous fier aux panneaux accrochés aux façades des maisons. Si vous êtes à pieds, les catalogues proposés ...

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 ...

... many cafes around town.

At around 7pm the ferry arrived to take us off to our next island, Pag, which was really just going to be an overnight stop to get us to the bus to Split.

Rab is just two hours from Rijeka so, for people working in the city, an ideal island weekend hideaway. We saw one lady get off the ferry and climb onto her waiting boat right at the side of the ferry, definitely the right way to do this.

... I found a place that would store my backpack and just wandered through this pretty harbour city. Ever since I left Africa, I have been trying to find a Lonely Planet Middle East book so I could start preparing for my trip through this part of the world. I found a few bookstores along the way but they either didnt have the book I was looking for or they werent in English. I was so glad when I found a bookstore in the center of the city and found out that they ...