Orsan*** Orebic

My girlfriend and I decided to travel around Italy and Croatia for six weeks in our uni holidays. We decided having a week sailing through through islands with a bunch of strangers would be the perfect way to break up the trip. We didn't realise what we were in for. We hopped on the boat in Split and nervously sat around having the initial small talk with the other 30 or so people on the boat. We were soon served lunch and things started to ...

... adopted me here. Or I adopted him??? He lives near the ferry dock andis a young orange tabby, we call him 'kochka', really oroginal, it means 'cat' in Czech!! One day when we walked by him a tourist brought him a pouch of Friskies from the gorcery store, they are not cheap here though and so instead of that, I have instead brought him liver pate from the restaurant-it's not like I would ever eat it!... Our all inclusive hotel, as we mentioned, is nothing ...

The huge ferry swung into the bay and the bow door swung down like a drawbridge. Out popped one bicycle with me on it. I was now on the national park island of Mljet. On arriving at its eastern village Pomenac, three of hours of hilly riding later I spoke to the diving school owner Mario. His attractive blurb on sunken german gunboats and roman cargo ships had been a major reason for coming here. "nope" he said with an italian sounding accent "I need-a two ...

... but keep driving, until we nearly run over some goats and Chad finds his new girlfriends among their ranks. We continue on and come to the actual last town on the Peninsula, Loviste, and sit on a dock and enjoy the scenery and freeze our feet off while dipping them in the ocean. (C) And we get LOTS of glares about our serbian license plates as we drive ...

... with a fold-out bed not so very different to a hammock. The entire city of Dubrovnik seems to exist only for tourism. There are no office-blocks or usual city paraphernalia, just the white summery houses of the new town, harbours thick with boats, and of course, the famous and gorgeous Dubrovnik old town, hidden away behind enormous walls. Walking the walls revealed the beautiful town within, all white stone and almost seamlessly reconstructed after the ...

... Hosteling International it was a easy walk to the old part of town, its was nice to get out of the old town, but the rooms were small and noisy. There are cheaper internet and cafes right there. Transportation - I took a bus from Plitvice to Split and then to Dubrovnik, its quiet easy, but sometimes the bus times are a bit close. The buses seemed to be late more then early, so it seemed to work out ok. When I got to Dubrovnik I found ...

Good Afternoon- It's a gorgeous day here in Dubrovnik and we've just arrived in "old town" to walk around and maybe do alittle shopping. I need to find a hat, a day bag and an electric converter. Hat was lost somewhere along the way, and I brought an adapter, really only half the equation to plugging in my hair dryer. We slept in this morning until 10:00. Easily the best ...

A few nights in beautiful Hvar island. I wen there by myself and Rip went up to the mountains of Slovakia..... Was a bit lonely and I had a tummy bug so wasn't well. The water was amazingly beautiful and I did a day trip to see some blue caves. We went out on a ...

... and tall thin bush-like trees, but one glance at the road signs and people outside our bus window made it clear that we were not in Italy and that we had found ourselves into something new; something closely related to Italy, perhaps, but also something different. Fine by us, Italy is one of the most beautiful places on earth and if Croatia was to be anything like its nearby neighbor to the West we were anxious to get off the bus and start living it up. Unfortunately ...

So, my mother will probably huff and call me by my full name and make some comment about raising me more decent "than that"; but I just couldn't resist. As most know, I can easily find ways to amuse myself - and this was the highlight of my day. As I had mentioned earlier, I had my own apartment within the city walls, near the western seaside. In Dubrovnik, you can walk the entire length of the walls, on the top, looking down into the city. I had gotten up really early this morning ...