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Europe in October '12
... shingles he will put onto his new buildings. As I left Grindelwald Ghislaine took me to Saxetbach where the canyoning tragedy happened in 1999 - 21 adventurers died here and most of them were young Australians. It is a beautiful spot with a lovely memorial and was surrounded by beautiful, tall trees full of autumn colours - very sad, but beautiful too!
From there it was off to Zurich and flight to Croatia but - I missed my ...
On to Croatia
... look like they are also having a great time. We visited a. Local B and B and the owner told us a legend of the Bosa who supposedly got drunk, dressed up like sheep and 65 Bosa chased out 20000 Turks. Believe it or not. There is a picture of Bosa included. He also provided homemade brandy, wine and sweets. Very interesting man. I am getting toured out and am glad we have only two more tours both in Hungary our last ...
Bosnia - a different perspective
... Sadly the following day at about midday we had to leave Bosnia to head to Belgrade. One of our friends, Bob the German, was on the train with us which took about 8hrs but we had a 6 seater cabin mostly to ourselves and it didn't seem to take too long. We added 4 stamps to our passports as we passed through Croatia in a not very direct path to Belgrade. We were sad to say goodbye to Bosnia as it was an amazing place and very high up on the list of favourite countries so far.
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Dubrovnik
What a different place to Rome n only one hour flight away. All hills n rocks. Blue clear water n we had our first swim. Pebbly beach with people lying around, playing cards on the beach, people getting smashed on the beach n nick laughing trying to take videos. Hmmmmm. ...
Contrast in Croatia
... damaged houses were fearful of returning to reclaim their property because, even though things are peaceful now, trust level is low. From scenes of obvious violent conflict we passed through countrysides, green and picturesque.
We arrived at Plitvice National Park, where we spent the night and hiked the trail through the waterfalls the next day (Sept. 20). Woohoo! The most amazing landscape of waterfalls that one could ever imagine. Water falling out of everywhere ...