G'day from Pag Island Croatia! (Don't know how to say hello so g'day it is)

Day one- we leave Venice early and head off on our way to Slovenia... the guys did a caving optional extra (optional extras are day trips or excursions that aren't included in the tour price that you can do if you like) Elley and shifty did it whereas Keira and I opted for sleeping on a park bench instead... it was a great sleep and apparently the caves were amazing so everyone wins. We have lunch here which again was delicious and then set on our way to Pag Island Croatia!!!! Super excited.

We get to the ferry after driving along some sketchy cliff face roads and head over to Pag Island... now if you are picturing white sandy beaches, palm trees and crystal clear blue water you would be picturing Fiji not Pag Island.. We rock up and think we are either in Afghanistan or on the moon... it is very baron with sandy coloured rocks covering mountains. We drive along and see pictures on signs of beaches and trees but yet to see anything... we then go over a hill and there it is... a town with trees and boats and beach... it was still a pebble beach, not a sand one but that's Croatia for ya.

After realising the bus won't fit down the road that the hotel is on we unload and wander down to check in... The hotel is in a great location however no aircon aghhh. We have dinner and then freshen up. Tony (Tour leader) shifty, Mikey and I head off for some drinks. We Stop at this bar and sit and enjoy some beers and vodka... Tony moves to Vodkas, then Phil (bus driver) shows up and the vodkas turn to doubles... a few of the other girls show up and then Elley and Keira... We lose Tony who calls it a night as he hasn't been feeling to crash hot and then we lose some of the girls and Elley... It is Phil, Shifty, Keira, Steve (one half of Blondie aka Fleetwood mac), mikey and lyndsay (from the states) we have a few more drinks at a double and then head to the next place on our list Cocomo.. Phil has made it very clear he is keen for a big night where the others were umming and ahhhing so I said ill tag along with him whatever he does.. His a crazy Irish man who is an absolute riot and a load of fun. We decide to order a bottle of vodka between us at Cocomo and some mixers of juice and red bull.. This is where everyone who wanted a quiet night gave up all hope of that. We polish the bottle off between the 7 of us pretty quickly and order another one.. This one comes out with flames (sparklers) which was awesome.. We polished this one off got some directions off some locals (we think) got on a random bus and the next thing we know we were at a beach with half a dozen night clubs, neon and strobe lights everywhere, music blaring and people scattered from club to club and all over the beach..... This place was hectic. It is apparently a smaller version of Ibiza. We ordered a drink that came in a vase by the litre and made our way down the beach. You couldn't go into a club with our drinks so we sat on the beach and talked nonsense for who knows how long whilst watching people bungy jump from a giant crane over the water and watched people pass out on the beach.. We finished our drinks.. Lost lyndsay and Steve and headed in.. It was dance music and crazy inside... we partied here until after 5am where we left Phil who ran into his cousin and made our way back home.. The sky was light and the sun was rising as we were crawling into bed.. it's safe to say when I woke up 3and a half hours later that Croatia had kicked my ass... the head was hurting. We had some breakfast and went to the beach.. Here we swam and laid all day long at the beach working on our tans.. Well until Zak from Adelaide came and convinced me and shifty to go on the biscuits behind the boat with him.. This is not a good idea when severely hungover.. Trust me on that! I came off twice with my legs flipping back over my head.. Fun times.. After the beach we headed back and freshened up had dinner and started the drinks again.. This time we were on a roof top terrace and it was with our group. We drank and mingled and all of that.. We got booted off the terrace just before midnight and headed to get some of the others that went to Cocomo. We all headed to Party Beach.. We got our litre drinks again and the group all split up.. Me Elley Keira and a few others wandered down to Aquarius after sculling our drinks down.. We lost a few and found a few of the group along the way.. We head inside.. Elleys favourite song Shuffling come on and I ran from the bathrooms to shuffle with Elley and we shuffled our hearts out.. This song was followed by run dmc.. We lost Keira by this stage and were dancing with a few others from the group.. We then went to check out the other room where we ran into Zak (Adelaide) who lead us to the balcony of the resort/club where we saw Phil, Keira and a few others who had left and couldn't get back in.. So naturally we helped them scale the wall and balcony and smuggled them back in.. We all partied on for a bit and a little after 4 Elley and I called it a night.. Stumbling our way to the bus to head back to the hotel. Just after 4:30am it was lights out!

Day 3- we rose later today at about 11, I checked in home and spoke to dad and then met back up with Elley and Shifty where we went for a late breakfast. After breakfast I sent some postcards and then we rented some scooters to start our adventure around the island. We drove on the roads with cars.. Our scooters went a whole 45km an hour max.. Cars went a tad bit quicker than this.. Was crazy.. We went and checked out party beach during the day then headed east.. We stopped at all the towns along the way and rode on cliff faces and took in the amazing scenery of the Adriatic ocean and all the nearby Croatian islands. We stopped for a swim and a photograph and then made our way to the main town Pag. It was such a beautiful ride with amazing scenery. We hit Pag and had a pringle break then started the ride home.. Well tried to.. My bike wouldn't start so a local helped get it going for me then we started for home.. Everything was going fine the cars were crazy and overtook at the craziest of times but we managed pretty well.. Until a truck came. Everything is fine but one of us had a scrape a few scratches and stiches later, an argument with a douche Croatian guy and all is good.. We had some fries for dinner listened to music and called it a night... tomorrow were off to Slovenia and my liver is very thankful of this.