Nigel's last full day in Europe :( Very, very sad faces all round. Particularly because we had to get up at 4:00AM. Sad, grumpy, sleepy faces! We had a relatively smooth journey back to Paris all round though. We met a Brazilian girl at the hostel in the morning who was also leaving for the airport so instead of having to wait for the bus we all split a taxi because it worked out to be not too much more expensive. Then we flew from Dubrovnik to Zagreb, & Za...

Thursday was our last day in Dubrovnik, our last day in Croatia, & really our last proper day of holiday together :( But despite the sad thought of Nigel going home hanging over both our heads we still had a wonderful day. We were up pretty early in the morning to try & beat the crowds of cruise ship tourists onto the old town wall. The cruise ships dock in Dubrovnik every day around 9:00AM & hundred of leather sandal clad tourists flood into town, ...

On Wednesday morning we could see no sign of the hostel staff so we went to get a cuppa while waiting for our included breakfast to appear. We sat outside at one of the restaurants in the centre of town & were served by a lovely Croatian man who spoke very proudly about his Croatian history & friends he knew who had moved to Australia. He was a very strange mix of warm & hospitable, whilst also being scary in the kinda way that makes you not want to...

Having made the decision to bus rather than ferry to Dubrovnik, we did NOT have to get up at 5:00AM on Tuesday morning! Yay! Instead Nigel got a blissful sleep in until I woke up about 6:30 :P Then after packing up & having one more cuppa at the lovely F-caffe we settled in for the 4.5 hour bus ride from Split to Dubrovnik. It's pretty spectacular scenery the whole way because you're traveling along the coastline, but it's also very windy & bumpy…and ...

Hello. I'm Olivia, and I'm a Croatiaholic. ("Hi Olivia!" :P). So after our first full day in Croatia I'm officially in love with this place. Now THIS is a holiday! How can one have a holiday within a 5 months holiday you ask? Well, sometimes when you're traveling for that long & every single day you feel compelled to walk around & do things, learn things about the places you're in, visit old churches, be cultural etc. you really just crave some time to ...