World Traveler

Everyone all over Europe raves about Croatia and how amazing it is so I had to go and see what all the fuss was about, I’m curious like that! I planned to visit quite a few places in Croatia but only ended up seeing the capital; Zagreb and then Pula and Dubrovnik.

I arrived in the capital city Zagreb on a Sunday and the pace was like a ghost town, most businesses were closed and there wasn’t a person to be seen anywhere, it was really strange. Just trying to find a café that was open was difficult, what do the people that live there do on a Sunday? How boring! After reading about it in my guidebook I didn’t plan on staying there anyway but I had to wait all day to catch a train that departed at 1am, again very strange!

The Train was overnight and arrived in Pula the next morning. Pula is a pretty town and there is a huge ruin of an amphitheatre in the middle of the town which looks amazing and it’s a beautiful town to walk around with little cobbled streets, a market and a ridiculous amount of ice cream and pizza eateries, in fact, it was actually har5d to find anything else! It was so hot when we arrived that most girls just walk about in bikinis and even drive motorbikes in bikinis!

I moved on to Dubrovnik, again a small town but very beautiful. Most of the town is inside a huge old castle and the architecture is totally amazing and it looks like new. The “castle” (I’m sure it has a technical term but I have no idea what that term might be!) was surrounded by the sea and there is a drawbridge that you enter through. Apart from that there wasn’t a huge amount to do.

Coastal drives in Croatia are fantastic, but watch out as the water is freezing even in the high of summer! There is never any sand either, just rocks that you have to jump off to get in the sea. The sea is very clean though. Croatia was a nice place but I don’t get what all the hype is about, its not like its Turkey, or Thailand!

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