Category: Croatia
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22,23/09 The Big Wind
We woke up in our secluded little alcove well rested despite the calls of unidentified animals throughout the night. Maybe it was just the fact that we hadn’t stumped up 17 euros for a small patch of grass to sleep on, who knows!? We headed back in to Trapanj for a quick breakfast of bananas…
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Leaving Croatia
Border guards must be selected purely by their ability to delve to levels of miserableness that would be both impossible and undesirable for other normal human beings. Nowhere was this more evident, and fitting, for our final few days in Croatia. Anyway, to the start of the day…. The old town of Dubrovnik was truly…
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The Great Flood 05/09
We woke upand sadly left our spacious studio apartment where we had had a much needed short beak from the rain and all it throws at us and faced the impending weather. When we woke up it had been overcast, this quickly morphed into what we’d call a soft day at home and then didn’t…
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Rafting in Croatia
2nd/3rd September – Camp Slapic – Turanj After our lovely cosy fire on Monday night and an epic feed of ridiculousy tasty pork stroganoff, we went to bed optimistic that tomorrow would be a brighter day. Seems the west of Ireland weather might be following me round! The sound of rain had persisted against our…
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Hiding in a foibe
Sometimes we have days where everything seems stacked against us, although it didn’t feel like that right from the beginning… We both had limited sleep even though we had got into our bags quite early (again, as soon as it was dark @ 8.30ish). Just as I was undressing and trying to remove some at…
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Back to Zagreb
Back in Zagreb after an amazing weekend at home, it was surreal flying home from here knowing we were coming back in only three days, the complete reversal to the usual way a trip abroad works. Our flight was full of complete idiots, characters like ‘Pru’, unsurprisingly from Durham university projecting her voice while her…
Sam and Sheena Cycle 