Mare Mare Suites Mali Losinj

Just spent all day yesterday at the beach, alternating between sleeping on the shore and lazing on a lie-low on the ocean. beautiful day, not a cloud in the sky, clear blue ocean. exactly what we all needed to recharge after 15 days of non stop moving around. I think everyone that got swineflued is now recovered, so we should be good to go for the next 12 days :( until the end of the trip.

Pag, Zadarska, Croatia ellemojo

We finished up the last leg of our road trip in Cesky Krumlov in Czech. It is the most amazing and well preserved medieval town in the country. They were too poor to rebuild the town in the 1800s - as a result everything has been well preserved from the 15-16th Centry. We have seen plenty of castles on our travels - but this one is something else. We stayed in a cool ...

... ruelles de la ville. Au dernier étage d'une charmante maison, la chambre est simple et confortable. En revanche nous partagerons la salle de bain avec l'hôte de la maison. Pour une nuit, nous acceptons et négocions le prix à 230 kunas (31€ environ)! La dame nous offre gentiment un verre de jus d'orange. Avant de partir découvrir les lieux, elle nous conseille d'aller du côté de la baie de Cikat.

A noter : les environs de Mali Losinj ...

Great little place to relax, with plenty of beaches (topless, nude or otherwise), hiking, boating and more. Heavily touristed by northern Europeans, with lots and lots of skin on the beaches and boats, and a very interesting medieval town made for wandering tourists.

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We found another room with a view, watched the sunset over the harbour and then went to our room. It was quite a hilarious room with two single beds secured to the wall head to toe. Definitely a town to pass through.

The receptionist was a lovely lady who directed us to her favourite restaurant away from the crowds, with a really pleasant atmosphere and a meal to redeem the island.

... many cafes around town.

At around 7pm the ferry arrived to take us off to our next island, Pag, which was really just going to be an overnight stop to get us to the bus to Split.

Rab is just two hours from Rijeka so, for people working in the city, an ideal island weekend hideaway. We saw one lady get off the ferry and climb onto her waiting boat right at the side of the ferry, definitely the right way to do this.

Our day out can be described in three words – amazing, fantastic, spectacular!!!

We, along with our new Dutch tour group friends who insisted we join them in a 10am drink of Schnapps!, went off to a few island stops, beaches, a fjord with a bombed, sunken warship, coves and just magnificently beautiful blue water.

At some of these stops we dived off the boat into the amazingly clear, sparkling and buoyant water and loved every moment of it.
Rab, Kvarner Bay Islands, Croatia jmabro

... the harbour and across the road from the boat we chose for our outing tomorrow.

We finished off the evening with a delicious pasta meal in a wine cellar where the wine was definitely worth writing home about! Good Croatian wine is worth buying if and when you can.

... driver and passenger looking on in horror at the drop below it and I guess thanking their lucky stars that the tree was there to block its descent. So anyway, we reached our stop in one piece... the bus stop was an alarmingly long way up the hill to be a port town... then we finally twigged... Although our bus ticket said Brestova on it, we had to walk the remaining 4km down to the port. It wasnt too bad at the beginning as there was quite a bit of shade and like I ...

... in this part of Croatia Split: * Miami/California beach style promenade with lots stylish shops..I was tempted to make this a shopping trip but I stuck to sightseeing and eating instead! * Fruit & vegie and fish markets were quite nostalgic reminding me of my time in Papua New Guinea. * Very cool bikini/swimsuit shops..so tempted to buy 10 more bikini sets though I thought realistically as to when I'll have the opportunities to wear them Summary of trip ...