Hotel Jadran Sibenik

... so a lot of people in Split would have gone back to their villages or home town for the weekend.<br>Also explains why the graves in Zagreb looked so good the day too.<br>Went to Gaga which the barman at the first bar said if any place would be busy, that place would be and it was dead.<br><br>Saturday walked around the market, got Burek for breakfast and then up a bunch of stairs to get a good look over Split. <br>Such a beautiful ...

After our 6+ hour bus ride from the Plitvice Lakes (man was I ready to be off that bus) we arrived in Split, a southern city right on the coast of Croatia. It has its share of resort-style promenades with palm trees on the water, historical sites, and regular neighborhoods for regular Croatians. We found our hostel, the BB Turtles Hostel (a 6-bed hostel room in the basement of some lady's house). It was a nice, comfy hostel with a couple Canadian girls and two Brits ...

... a spacious lounge, suited for private and business meetings, presentations, celebrations or other purposes, depending on your needs and wishes. It is possible to use both a portable and a fixed telephone in the lounge. Your accommodation on the Aurum Gulet may be compared to a stay in the most ...

... an hour as they swam amongst the few boats. The sun has been shining all day and we have done absolutely nothing! After breakfast we walked down to the beach, which is just a short walk from where we have parked at the campsite. Then, we played a board game and had lunch, followed by going for a swim in the ocean and relaxing on the rocks. We are about to catch the ferry from our campsite into the small town of Trogir; we can ...

... an average of 10hrs a day) mixed in with book reading, listening to my iPod, and playing various card games. Favourite on deck was Sh*thead (also known as Fish T*ts), warloads/presidents and poker. Constantly if not always you had a drink in hand - common choice was beer.<br><br>By about mid-morning we would come to our swim stop. Most times it was early morning and it was fricken cold!! The sun hadn't quite warmed you up and by the time you jumped in, you were more than happy to get ...

... 10 lighter with no indicators, GPS, radio and worse of all no brakes - Great. We managed to find out there was another garage 50kms north that we could try so off we set (with fingers tightly crossed). We headed for a campsite in Primosten, not too far from Split, to get more info on the other garage in Sibenik, as again we wanted to book &amp; explain the size, as we don't want the same thing to happen again for the 3rd time - my patience can't take much more ...

... doll. All I can say is that the place was beautiful. There were a lot of tourists, though. I guess it was not as out-of-the-way as I had hoped, but we managed to find a ledge and fall asleep to the roaring falls in the background. After hiking around the park, we even took a dip in the bottom pool. Lily dipped her feet in the water, but since I tripped and got my shorts ...

... thinking about. Yes yes. And yes, we did have the courage to do it. And it was a liberating experience! Sorry, no photos from there, mainly because there just weren't fig leaves large enough ;-P. And secondly, because no cameras are allowed in this section. Last night in Croatia we spent in Rijeka, sleeping in the car. It rained so heavily, we didn't dare to sleep inside the tent. It would probably withstand the wind, and ...

... it was still cloudy so was not as blue as in all the postcards, but was still nice. Heading back to Hvar we saw a dolphin in the sea, which I was very excited about! We had wanted to go to Vis, but the storm meant that the boats were not going, so we didn't get to go. It was at this point that we decided we are definitely coming back one day to visit Vis, see more of Zagreb and visit the Kornati Islands, another trip we did not have time to do.