Hotel Bristol Lovran

Felt ok when I got up which is a good job as we are moving on not to far though only to a little place down the coast we have to get the bus there which only takes about 2 hours so not to much of a trek for me as still feeling light headed and dizzy which is nothing new for me really. Want to say a quick congratulations to Collette and Ste Ians sister and husband who have had a little girl called Layla Grace saw the pictures of her ...

... 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!!!!

Après une bonne nuit, malgré le retentissement des cloches de 5h du matin, nous voici partis, chaussures de marche aux pieds, sur les côtes de l'île. Nous décidons d'aller directement sur le versant opposé au camping pour fuire la foule. Le temps de trouver le chemin (les croates sont assez avares d'indications!), nous commençons notre randonnée sur une ...

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Cres (prononcé "tsresse") est moins touristique que les autres îles du golf de Kvarner et c'est ce qui nous a tout de suite plu. Son petit port tranquille et son centre-ville pavé nous ont conquis!
Cette étape marque également le début de notre 1ère prospection "sobe" (chambre chez l'habitant).

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... nous pensons pouvoir récupérer la ligne de bus Rijeka-Cres. Notre surprise est aussi grande que notre déception quand nous découvrons cette minuscule gare au milieu de nulle part. On se croirait revenu 50 ans en arrière, le contraste est total (mention particulière au chef de gare derière son bureau et sa liasse de papier, parlant un anglais impeccable)! Le problème, c'est ...

... in the castle just walk aroundto see the pond and surrounding nature.

The rest of the day we spand in the Internet bar on the way to Lipice workin on our blog, not easy work guys; believe us...

In the evening we continue our way to Liice to see a lot of horses :-) We park just near the stables, very bad night,Alena can't fll asleep at all... it will be a looong night!

... a castle on the top of a hill. There are 560 stairs to get up to it. Needless to say, I stopped and rested several times on that trip. But...not much else to do, except the hostel has TV!!!!! In English! Alot of channels. And CNN! My first in months and months. And wifi is good too. So I am studying up on the Slov history. Is very interesting.

... ago. A very worthwhile stop.

It was about 500-600 steps down to walk through the whole thing and come out the other end.....where the elevator back up was broken, meaning 500-600 steps to climb back up outside the exit, lots of fun on this boiling hot day!

Throughout the day rain would move in and out making the streets oily and the air heavy with humidity. If you wore a jacket you became hot and sweaty and if you took it off you felt a slight chill and the fear of being rained on. This region of Croatia had steep mountains that ran down to a jagged rocky coastline. Trees jutted out from the rocky cliffs at odd angles and then grew thick as the rocks became less scarce and the mountains began to rise. The road wound through the ...

... Those I managed to sneak out didn't come out too well. And besides, you'll need about 20 different pictures just to create the right impression of the cave. So you'll have to use your imagination ;-). Another unique feature of the cave is the so called 'human fish'. In truth they are kind of small eyeless salamanders, and their skin looks very similar to human, with no scales. Normally they live in complete darkness, so they don´t need ...