Hotel Villa Letan Pula

Sooo it has been almost two weeks of Camp Croatia...
It is a summer camp social experiment through and through.
Nothing too exciting has occurred, just long hours of presentations, day trips into the city of Pula, oh, and laying on the rocky beach in our swimsuit on December 2 and 3. I even got a little color in my cheeks. When the weather is nice, Croatia is nice ...

... to getting us to Slovenia where on Friday I can then go and get the stiches out. So we have a bus ride in the morning bought the lady from the appartments some chocolates and left her a note to say thanks as she has been amazing with us letting us stay for nothing. So everyone dont worry I am well enough to be typing this blog today and will put on pics for the past few weeks when the computer will let me.

... in my eye as its bust open and I have cuts and grazes on my face from the rocks and also the biggest black eye you have ever seen its madness. As a precortion they decided to keep me in hospital overnight as I had a head injury and they wanted to make sure that I was ok. So I spent the night in a mad croatian hospital on my own but was brave and kept having nurses putting injections in my **** all evening.

Rovinj is our first stop with our new guests, my high school friends aboard. Unlike most of our guests when they first come aboard, my friends were very hyper and anxious to get out and have some fun.

I usually wake up around 8 AM and expected my friends to sleep in much later. But, shortly after my coffee service arrived, I heard a knock on my door and it was Jeff and Vance coming to wake me up. After ...

... heard him exclaim “NO” in Croatian several times as if in exasperation as he looked at people’s tickets. We were the last ones in the row and he had the same unhappy reaction to our tickets. After his first exclamations of no he had gotten on the phone emphatically talking. Suddenly in the middle of nowhere the bus stopped and we wondered worriedly if this had to do with his unhappiness with some of our ...

Rovinj is set on a small peninsula on the Istrian coast of Croatia, which is famous for its fine wines and truffles. Photos of Rovinj have appeared in advertisements and international travel publications, and it's one of Croatia's most scenic small coastal towns.

The medieval old city is a tangle of narrow, steep streets and steps leading ...

... I made my way to the bus station. Rovinj was less than an hour away and it was in fact as beautiful as everyone described it. The town is along the Adriatic Sea and is filled with pastel colored buildings. I spent the first few hours just walking through the town and taking pictures. After taking a good set of photos, I made my way down to the beach. This is when I ran into Charlotte. She had just arrived and wanted to see the sights. I ...

... heading to the same place as us - the Pula Youth Hostel, so we all hopped on bus 2A To Verudella. Our hostel was pretty tops; it was on its own private bay, Valsaline Bay, and has all the necessities; a bar, internet (pretty pricey however), english speaking reception, awesome hazlenut flavoured icecream for 4kuna (1AUD = 4.5kuna) and the beach, of course! Sweltering in our London clothes, we immediately dumped our bags ...

The good thing about catching the early morning bus is that it gives you plenty of time to explore your next destination in the afternoon. The bad thing is you're the only one on the bus when it crosses the border, and the border guard decides to actually do his job for once. I've never been hauled off the bus and taken into a searching room before, and I was conjuring up all sorts of unpleasant ...

... of arm flailing and face-pulling and ended with a 25% discount and a promise to 'move upstairs' tomorrow. This we did, having survived the damp, and stayed in a room with 1980s hairdressing photos on the wall and what looked like a dog skin on the floor. We had not found the best place to stay, but she was delighted. The first night there were 10 people staying there - Paul was in the kitchen, and we reckoned she sould be raking in about 300USD that night ...