Croatia
Trip Start
Jan 03, 2008
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Trip End
Dec 17, 2008
Omis, Croatia
Thursday, July 24, 2008
Croatian villages are beautiful
All the stories you hear about Croatia are true and even more so...it is beautiful, clean and the sea and the beaches are just breathtaking! Our first stop was a big campsite just outside of Porec where we had a couple of great days. We then did some sightseeing around the Istrian peninsular and headed out to the Island of Krk.We had 3 fantastic days out here with great weather and a massive street party celebrating 120 years of tourism. It was just like winter fest but 35 degrees and all the songs were in Croatian, except this one guy who sung all Elvis songs and we were the only ones dancing to them.
We then headed down the most spectacular coastline with amazing coves and bays everywhere and out to a town called Nin. When we went to check into our campsite there but became a bit dejected as it was massive, had thousands of people in it and a bit hedi hi-ish for us (we were through with those big campsites) so we turned around and walked back out and continued down the coast, dotted with beautiful little campsites on the waters edge.
We ended up in Pirovac, a great little seaside town in a campsite directly on the water, unfortunately the weather then decided to pack in! We dealt with gale force winds that closed the roads, torrential rain that flooded nearly everyone's sites and temperatures in the 17 - 20 degree vicinity, so we FROZE
Partying for 120 yrs of tourism
. Luckily the scenery and towns are amazing so we had plenty to do while the weather slowly warmed up again.We stopped again at another campsite about 50km past Split where we had the most amazing Croatian dinner cooked by Mum and Son's, the daughters were waitresses and reception for the campsites and dad and uncles played the mandolin and guitar and sung to us. It was amazing, we also met these crazy polish people who got both Grant and I up to dance to a song that went on for at least 20 minutes, the sweat was pouring off us both so I suppose I am pretty unfit at the moment. The weather here was also hit and miss but the girls got to snorkel and rock jump and it was just another excuse for Grant and I to play cards (the bugger is getting good at it now, which is pissing me off!) and drink that wonderful Croatian beer Karlovacko.
We are now heading out to Hvar, apparently one of the most amazing islands in the world for beauty and snorkeling!
