Croatia
Trip Start
Jun 10, 2007
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Trip End
Ongoing
Split,
Croatia
Saturday, August 11, 2007
hope you all well.........this issue finds us in croatia and we both fine and lookin forward to a swim in the sea been a while now. The only thing is the van is almost undrivable in town the first few gears are tough to get into so its time to bite the bullet and get into a garage ......... good timing really as we have a week on the yacht to put it in the garage.
So we bee line it to the coast of croatia and follow the winding coastal road south which is amazing the contrast of crystal clear waters and rocky barren hills some of which show the signs of the terrible forrest fires all over these parts (heard a few fire fighters been killed by landmines so its still pretty dodgey off trail here). A couple days of cruising the coast, stopping every now and then for a welcome dip in the sea (free camping and parking is very difficult in these parts the coast is so packed every inch of roadside is full of cars), brings us to Split and a great camp ground where we regroup the troups from our various different paths
Camp ground Hvar island
.Next day its into town to find our yacht and sit down for this ...... after and exhaustive search we finally find the charter company we were directed to by our agent and they have no record of our booking except an email to our agent telling him they have no availability over this period. Of course we are stunned this was booked and paid for months ago and we received news just days befor from our agent that all was fine and who to contact in Split. So poor katie who made the booking spent a packet calling all the numbers for our agent to no avail these was no answers to anything ......... until an email the following week (a couple days after we were supposed to have left to have the time of our lives on a 1year old super yacht in the dalmation islands) told us the company had filed for insolvency due to some highly irregular accounting practices what this means we don't know but the facts stand as this we have no contact with agent and no yacht and our 4,500 euro is missing. You can imagine the feeling no matter how we rack our brains we end in the same place stumped and land bound (none of us can afford to fork out for another yacht) so there is only one thing to do, hit the bottle, well that works till morning brings a sore head and no yacht. So what to do? We decide to catch aferry to Hvar island and meet up with mads kim sprocket libby westy and his gf (they had a different booking and had sailed out there) and its was really tough sitting in the harbour in Hvar drinking and looking at everyone on their yachts knowing it should be us too........you could taste the dissapointment! So aftera couple of days on the island (which was very cool by the way) we left and headed for a break into bosnia to visit the war torn town of Sarejevo.
Ants went with the others and i caught a ride back to Split with Zeke and jen they had to fix their wheel bearings and I had to pick up our van. Well it was all fixed which is fantastic and so nice to drive now but it stung us a sweet 650 euro they had to replace the transmission case.
So with that done I hit the road to catch up with the others in Bosnia very exciting only a few years ago this place was under seige from the serbs ......... to be continued.........
love all
cy and ants
