Hotel Mozart Opatija

... for the past week!!!

The next day we just did pretty much the same had a mooch about and a walk down to the harbour and Ian was playing doctor and looking after me making me rest all the time so that I did not get tired. Spent the evening watching the crazy american sit coms again and eating buns that Ian made with cheese and salami on god feel like a right lazy sod but cant do much as my head just goes dizzy and funny.

... 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 ...

... le tout dans une charmante maison avec jardin tenue par un couple de retraité italo-croate, à 5 minutes du centre.

En septembre, le soleil se couche à 20h. Difficile pour nous car en France, c'est plutôt 21h. Tanpis, nous savourons notre 1er bain dans la mer un peu fraîche!

La journée a été longue, nous rentrons "chez nous" pour un petit pique-nique improvisé et une bonne nuit.

Enfin le train arrive en Croatie! Malgré le retard, nous ne regrettons pas ce trajet à travers la Slovénie car les paysages étaient superbes, naturels et verdoyants. Un bon coin pour faire de la randonnée.

Pour une raison pratique (prendre le bus pour l'île de Cres au plus vite), nous décidons de ne pas descendre au terminus (Rijeka) mais à l'arrêt Opatija-Matulji ...

Still at the lake this morning, filling up the water, having a quick breakfast, taking last pics of this lovely place and bye. We are off to the Snežnik castle, check the pics.

Sneznik Castle - really nice building in the middle of woods, very well preserved, all newly renovated. Here we sould like to thank again to the lovely crazy man for telling us about this place. We don't ...

... 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.

Sorry, too dark for any good pictures, but here are a few attempts. This place is HUGE, with awesome, massive caverns that blow your mind, very impressive and interesting. The remains of the original internal stairs are visible in many spots, built by the original explorers ...

... This drive was arguably the most scenic part of the whole country I saw. I was just gaping out the bus window. Well I decided to back track to the town of Opatija and splurge at a 'nice' hotel. The hostel rut can get monotonous after awhile and after the HI in Pula I just wanted to lay in the sun on a beach and more importantly a pool (since the whole no sand in the entire country ...

... our newly purchased sun lounger and goggles down to a less crowded part of the Creach. I spent the rest of the afternoon relaxing in the sea lounger while Andrew tried out his new goggles, got tired of them and then tried to push me off and take over my lounger at any opportunity he could. It is quite expensive to stay in Opatija itself so we decided to base ourselves at the closest camp site. When we got there we were pleased to find ...