The Croatians have been busy rebuilding stuff that the Yugoslavians bombed during the war. Nowhere is this more evident than in Dubrovnik. When you walk into any of the gates to the walled old city there are maps showing where buildings were hit by bombs and shrapnel, and where buildings burnt down. We did the walk around the top of the city wall which gives a great view of the city. It is also clear the extent that repairs had to be done, as there is a distinct ...

Korcula is one of the most relaxed places we've visited during the day, and thanks to the hostel one of the funnest places at night. It's another of the Islands off Croatia's Dalmatian coast, two islands South from Hvar. The old town of Korcula has a wall around it, and pretty well organised series of narrow streets with heaps of nice restaraunts on the main drag. Outside the old town the coastline is pretty rocky, but there are a few pebbly beaches. All the rock...

We'd heard great things about the Croatian islands from a few people, so we were really looking forward to getting here and relaxing on the beach. When the ferry pulled in to Hvar it was bucketing down with rain and we had a fair walk to the hostel. Luckily the rain stopped a couple of minutes after we got ashore, and there was someone from the hostel to walk us back so we figured we'd stay pretty dry. Now apparently drainage is not a big thing over here, coz we ...

Over 11 hours on a bus!! We arrived in Split at around 6 AM on a Monday morning. Needless to say the woman at our hostel was not really pleased to see us when we rang the doorbell (even though the signs pointing us to the door said open 24 hours). We had to drop our bags off and kill another 5 hours or so until we could check in properly. To top things off, it had started raining just as we stepped off the bus. There had been thunderstorms all around from just be...

Ok so we arrived in Croatia two days ago and I'm already struggling with the language. Firstly our Lonely Planet doesn't cover Croatia so we have no handy phrases, we have learnt thanks ('hvala') and some Aussie guys told us that hello was 'bog', but it sounds a bit too much like toilet so we haven't actually used that yet. Next the supermarkets. We headed to a supermarket yesterday to get some ingredients for a potato bake, I thought I was getting butter, turned...