Croatia Sailing

Well well.....Leaving From Vienna at 6pm we head to Zagreb, Croatia....So after a 5 hour bus ride we arrive close to midnight.....lucky enough our tram to our hostel stops running at midnight....so hear we are, waiting for tram number 5 heading to obstershajsh or something....12.59pm comes around and trams 4,9,8,7,3 have gone by, not to mention trams 8,7 came by twice....gah...so finally at 5 past twelve a tram comes around...not knowing if it is the right tram we hop on, and try to communicate with a fellow passenger. Who tells us in a matter of different words that we are going the in wrong direction....though as convincing as he was in telling us were stupid i decided to double check with the driver. Yes, in fact we are genius and are on the right tram. After a matter of dark alleys we reach our hostel at 1am, the office is closed, in short after a number of hard knocks on the door a guy comes out (who we later got told was blind out of his mind) leads us into our room, sleep takes over. That is until 4.5hours later when we have to wake up and catch another bus down to the seaside city of Split where we are due to embark on our 7 day Sailing cruise.

Split - Was nothing that i expected, after driving through alien landscape, you arrive at this port town with a huge white tiled boulevard on the water full with nice restaurants, it was like a mini french riviera. We Spent one night in a little hostel which was lovely, they brought us coffee and cake when we arrived! what more could you want.

The Boat...- Well it was fit for all 23 of the passengers, it had plentiful deck space and sufficient bar, kris and i went for the cheap option and chose a below deck cabin, our room mate though was very noisy in the mornings, considering our room mate was the engine. Not only that but we had the Croatian crew yelling 'CHICO!' and smashing pots and pans around (well thats what it sounded like anyway) every morning trying to get ye old engine up and puffing. But on the upside we got high of the fumes and our room was bigger than the ones above deck.

Day 1 -Full of surprises which i will not mention, but i think jessi will know what im talking about. lame. anyway we headed off to the island of Hvar and gopt to know our fellow boat people? folk? one of which we found out lives down the road from me and is kristies friends best friend.
Hvar is the rich island, it is where all the huge yachts come and chillax and sleep ontop of a pile of cash ect. The small town is beautiful and the water is crystal clear, the clearest i have ever seen. A brilliant island to start the tour, the night consisted of three pubs.

Day 2 - Mlijet - An island that is a national park, which has two beautiful clear lakes, one of which has a monastery located on a small island in the middle. The photos of Kristie and bridie in the canoe is on one of the lakes. That night we had a BBQ on the boat of traditional croation meats.

Day 3 - Dubrovnik - Beautiful as expected, a unique town unlike any other i have seen, one again crystal clear waters. 3Lt Cocktails....and i guess thats it.
Day 4-5-6 - Koctula - Mararska - Omis - Sorry to cut these places short just im runnign out of breath...all in all the islands were amazing, high cliffs borederd the ocean edge and wonderful water and bars packed thje small cobblestone streets.
Day 7-8 We arrived Back in Split where we said goodbye to our new good good friends, but then the worst possble thing happened! we Lost our lonley Plant book! so pretty much now we are wandering around without a clue, our bible, our baby, our holy grail is lost forever.

Some how we made it on a 12 hour bus to Vienna (hell on earth) then on another bus to Prague where we are situatued now.

Sorry for such bad writing and most of it will not make sense i know.

Sorry about the pictures to this computer wont let us move them... so its a bit messy.

Also since the Aussie Dollar is at an all time low in 5 years...i am accepting donations to the 'Alistair hating the euro foundation'....

over and out
miss you all
Maybe some more than others
joking
not
love kristie and alistair

(Aj in chilling in Split)

our Amazing boat, this is litarally what we did all day.. sunbaked

split again, coffee with the boat gang

The Girls - Bridie, Andrea and me!!!


Aj and I at a lovely seaside bar- i went a bit nuts on the straws



Split again





This is Aj and I in Dubrovnick

Mljet



the three above photos are of the national park in Mljet,
absolutely stunning park. Bridz and me on a canoe which we struggled with



Dubrovnick

Henry, Bridie and Aj "keeping it loose"


this is the view of the city walls in Dubrovnik








this was a really cool cocktail bar we all went to which was on top of a castle/fort type thing... and because of the ladder getting up there, the cocktails had to be pulled up by pullies...

this was yet another beautiful island, with a amazingly clear pebble beach


each day we had the opportunity to jump off the boat into the amazing croatian sees


this was a cocktail bar which sold massive cocktails


as you can see

more boat pics...



yes he is jumping from the top of the boat, was not to keen to watch that.







one night, while docked in an old pirate town, we had a pirate themed pary.. lots of fun..

aj and our new friends went up to a big fort, while i lazily sat in the sun on the boat


the pebble beach

these photos above are of split agian



Aj and his pirate friends (will, henry and sam)




lots love kris n aj