Our incredible luck with the weather throughout our Europe jaunt reached an end the next morning. We had purposely chosen a hotel close to the airport and on the bus line, but we still ended up absolutely worked in attempts to get to our rental car. The series of events unfolded like this: For starters, it was positively pissing down rain. Next, we saw our bus go by just as we stepped out of the hotel meaning the longest possible wait. Third, we waited at what w...

4am arrived extremely quickly, not too surprising when you get to bed only 3 hours earlier. But up and at 'em were the three of us, as we had a 5am, 5.5 hour bus ride taking us from Pula, Croatia to Venice, Italy. The ride was relatively uneventful aside from the stunning scenery racing past our windows as the Croatian sky melted away from a dark grey, to silver, to orangish-pink, and finally into the light blue of early morning. By 10:30 we had arrived in Veni...