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Insel Pag
Auf diesen Inseln ist kaum ein Meter flach. Nach Pag fahren wir auf einer kleinen Naturstrasse direkt gegen Westen, eine veritable Mountain-Bike Einlage. Wir planen, in Novalja die Fähre nach der Insel Rab zu benützen, die auf unserer Karte eingezeichnet ist. Nachdem uns die Insel bis hier recht verlassen vorgekommen ist, staunen wir über das Leben …
Rijeka
... of a residential building and was deceivingly good accommodation. As like many of the bookings through the Hostelworld app, we were given the option of checking in at 13:00 which didn't coincide with our shorter train journey. Luckily they'd left the door open and we plonked our stuff on the floor and waited for the owners. After 20 min of watching MacGuyver with subtitles we were able to leave our stuff with the owner while they prepared the room for us and ...
Lakes and the seaside
... to Rijeka with a bit of time up our sleeve for a wander. We sampled some oily baked dough filled with fatty meat, knocking our cholesterol level up a notch or two and then headed for the town centre. The heat of the sun ricocheting off our bodies caused the salty solution to drip from our pores. Summertime was definitely still around in Croatia. We had underestimated the time we would need to put one foot in front of the other to arrive at the town square, so ...
Malinska snorkelling!
... but with toxicly orange pasta sauce which we then all had smeared round our chops for the rest of the day)
Time for a wander so strolled round 'town' for a bit and bought a proper snorkel. Woohoo time to test it out so back in the sea!! Got to see loads more with the snorkel in place, even spotted a cool electric blue swordfish eel type fish and a load of sea cucumber things.
Once shrivelled like a prune we headed back to camp to sort out dinner and chill ...
Croatia here we come!!
... an island connected to the mainland by a bridge. The scenery here is very different, still quite mountainy but very gravelly rocky and arid but with lots of shrubby plants.
Already we could see how clear the sea was and started getting very excited! We jumped off at a stop called Malinska, a small-ish fishing village which is a bit touristy by the harbour and shores with some bars ...