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Ladies and Gents - if there is one holiday I can recommend for anyone it would be Sail Croatia. Absolutely sensational! Kicked off on Saturday morning with a bacon and egg brekky with Sydney Angus and then off to the port. My boat was the biggest flashest thing parked there - twin ensuite bathroom in room number lucky 13. Best accommodation I've had all trip!! Waiting for the rooms to get cleaned up I found my roommate - it was the infamous Trent from Punchy!...well actually it was Trent Hemsted but Punchy sounded better.... Punchy and I had a pretty easy arrangement from the word go 'we'll drink everything and split the bill at the end'. Worked well - we drank everything.
The first night on the way to Hvar found a group of us drinking on the top deck giving each other aliases for the trip, we had a Sticky Button (Nikki hutton), Flaunty Beavers (Courntey Stevens) and Men Dodger (Ben Rodgers) to name a couple. There was a also a group of Melbourne moles knocking around with us - they're all bad news tho. One thing I would like to mention at this point - ONLY PERTH PERSON on the boat....Talk of AFL was very limited. Not good at finals time. Boooo Collingwood
The rest of the trip basically consisted of out all night. Bed @ roughly 5am - up @ 11am jump off the boat into the Adriatic, swim, eat lunch/brekky and then drink again. Apparently our boat held the record for noise complaints after the second night when we teamed up with the great ship Penelopa next door to us. Our two boats never docked next to each other again!...
Highlight night out for the trip would have to be the Cave Bar in Makarska - massive cave next to the water with a bar and very loud tunes....and cocktails...many cocktails. Also I'd like to add this point (bening day 6) drinking copious amounts whilst on antibiotics seems to go off without a hitch. The Ios cough is gone!
On arrival back in split town on Saturday after a massive night out on Friday and about 45 minutes sleep, Pauly, CC, Gez, Channel 7, Pete Peters, Chole and I tackled the beach in town, bit of rock jumping and beer drinking on the water. Confirmed...Benny needs a holiday house in Split. This followed by dinner, however looking around the table at about 8.30 you could see every1 was out of gas after a massive week and a 12 hour sleep followed.
Krka national park the next day with Courntey and Pauly was sensational - waterfall pics on facebook. After an emotional goodbye with the terrible twosome from Queensland I caught up with Dogsnot and we tackled steak and beers till about midnight. Another big sleep followed.
Monday I moved Hostels to Silver Gate near old town. Smart move, Mel (Canadian Chick) Tackled the beach all day, drank beer and then did a massive pub crawl. Hungover yesterday I met a Perth Lad named Jezza, conversations and beers lead us to the only music shop in Split - we now both have a Fender Acoustic as a travel mate for the rest of Europe. That's a massive win - first time I've picked up guitar in over a month.
Next Stop Ibiza with the Perth Crew....look out guys I'm a seasoned veteran now
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Trent (punchy) Hemsted love the blog mate good read sounds like your roomy was a legend!
Ben Rodgers haha He was one of a kind mate, you should see him in a dress....sensational!!
Petar Hehe, love the article! :) I'm glad you had such a nice time sailing in Croatia :)