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Jumping Point
Blog: Murmurs from a foriegn land. - 6 December 2009
Dubrovnik, Croatia – August 7th, 2009. I wake up just in time for breakfast, and get stuck into some french toast and some bosnian coffee. I take my sweet time getting ready to head into the Old Town. Then I make my way down to the bus stop to get to the Centre. Its a bit [...]
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To the city wall..
Blog: Murmurs from a foriegn land. - 6 December 2009
Dubrovnik, Croatia – August 6th, 2009. A bit of a brief blog, but not much really happened on this day. I had originally planned to go to Mljet, but no hostels on that Island meant going to Dubrovnik instead. Not a big deal. Only problem is, the next ferry leaves in a few days time. Oh [...]
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Island in the sun
Blog: Murmurs from a foriegn land. - 6 December 2009
Vela Luka, Croatia – August 5th, 2009. It’s a late start to the day. I don’t get moving to about 12 noon. But that’s to be expected when you get in at 6am. Michel suggested to go to this Island called Proizd, which is about half an hour away from Vela Luka. It actually won Beach [...]
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Another Day, Another Island.
Blog: Murmurs from a foriegn land. - 6 December 2009
Hvar and Vela Luka, Croatia – August 4th, 2009. After some breakfast and a quick bag pack. I speak to the owner who says to come back and he’ll drive me to the ferry port to get to the Island of Korcula. Its not a bad day, so I decide to go for a walk. But first [...]
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Onto Hvar
Blog: Murmurs from a foriegn land. - 2 December 2009
Hvar, Croatia – August 2nd, 2009. I awake to a room full of girls. Nothing uncommon for mixed dorm rooms. Unfortunately, a certain appendage had somewhat fallen out whilst asleep…and seeing it was too hot to sleep under the sheet…well he gave everyone a wake up call. Oops, sorry. Its a bit of a slow start to [...]
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Island Hopping
Blog: Murmurs from a foriegn land. - 2 December 2009
Brac, Croatia – 1/8/2009. The morning is filled with a chill out and a lounge about in the hostel. I then head off to the ferry at about 12ish for my ferry. Standing in line to get tickets, I notice the guy in front of me has a Blackwolf bag….this just signals an aussie. So I [...]
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Split It
Blog: Murmurs from a foriegn land. - 1 December 2009
Split, Croatia – July 31st, 2009. Somehow after crawling to bed at about 6, I am up at 10. Weird. But very very gingerly I may add. I grab some breakky next door at the grocery store and chill in the hostel for a bit. Tease the croatian hostel girl for a bit and head [...]
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Hello, I’m in Delaware….wait Split.
Blog: Murmurs from a foriegn land. - 29 November 2009
Split, Croatia – July 30th, 2009. After a pretty dreadful breakfast, that consisted of stale bread and tuna paste (seriously nothing else) and a lukewarm coffee, I leave for the bus station with Sarah. We both decide to get some decent food at the supermarket before buying our tickets. My bus leaves pretty much straight away, so [...]
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Blue, Blue, Blue lakes.
Blog: Murmurs from a foriegn land. - 29 November 2009
Plitvice Lakes National Park – July 28th, 2009. Waking up early is not exactly great, and I don’t think my Argentinian room mates are impressed with me. But I have to be up early, have to be at the bus station at about 8, otherwise I won’t get to see why I originally come to Zadar [...]
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Organ zounds
Blog: Murmurs from a foriegn land. - 26 November 2009
Zadar – July 27th, 2009. Awaken to a rattling carriage and a sore back is not exactly pleasant. But when you stand up, slip out of the human tetris ball, and to the window to be met by a gorgeous rolling countryside and one of the prettiest sunrises I have seen is downright amazing. Something I [...]
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Rock and Water
Blog: Murmurs from a foriegn land. - 25 November 2009
Bled, Slovenia – July 26th, 2009. Up pretty early by my standards, we leave at 9 for Canyoning, and I grab some breakfast – big tub of yoghurt – and wait for the girls at their hostel. They seem to have had a pretty big night after I left – with some picking up slovenian men [...]
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Croatia for Breakfast
Blog: Abandon the Cube - 8 November 2009
Lauren really wanted to go ahead with our plan of 6 capitals in 6 days. Therefore, after our few enjoyable days in Sarajevo, we booked a night-train to leave that same evening.
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My Istria Travel Diary - Podcast Episode 2
Blog: Heather on her travels - 25 October 2009
A podcast recorded while visiting Istria in Croatia, based near Porec at the resort of Plava Laguna, covering swimming, cycling, sightseeing, eating out
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Visiting the hill-towns of Grožnjan and Motovun in Istria, Croatia
Blog: Heather on her travels - 13 October 2009
A visit to the pictureque hill-top towns of Grožnjan and Motovun, Istria, Croatia
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Plava Laguna Resort in Istria, Croatia - Video
Blog: Heather on her travels - 3 October 2009
I’d like to share this short video from a few days I spent in Istria, the northern-most province of Croatia, close to the Italian border at the beautiful resort of Plava Laguna. I was a guest of the Istrian Tourism board and the Plava Laguna company who own a number of hotels, apartments and campsites [...]
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We were silhouetted! at Rovinj in Istria, Croatia
Blog: Heather on her travels - 18 September 2009
We’d just climbed up through the narrow cobbled streets of Rovinj, to the cathedral square with a great view of the sea at the top of the hill. As we rested on the wall among the other tourists, the silhouette man appeared from no-where. With his sharp little scissors at the ready, he charmed us all. Quickly he [...]
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Cycling by the sea in Istria - in Croatia
Blog: Heather on her travels - 15 September 2009
When we visited Istria in Croatia this summer, the joys of lying by the pool were wearing abit thin after the first day (for me anyway) so we decided to hire some bikes. I’d picked up a map showing all the marked cycle trails that would be ideal for a day out - I imagined myself cycling [...]
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A celebration of food from Istria in Croatia
Blog: Heather on her travels - 9 September 2009
We (my dearly beloved and I) celebrated our wedding anniversary at the weekend. If I tell you it’s 22 years, will you believe me? - it makes me feel soooo old. But then who’d believe my oldest is 17 - I hardly dare tell strangers in case they guess my age too, rather than mistaking [...]
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Welcome to Sarajevo
Blog: Send The Bugger Back - 6 September 2009
What a right stress that was. After very little sleep as is the norm, I arrived 5 minutes before my bus departed as I intended to, all okay so far. The problem arose when I gave my bag to the very grim looking worker with scars aplenty (I would want to add to these shortly) [...]
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Playstation generation
Blog: Send The Bugger Back - 5 September 2009
Last night I spent my time drinking beer round the small but nice hostel while waiting for a group of Americans to vacate (or should that be holiday?) the living room so I could have a crack on the PS3. There was a beach party going down on the, erm, beach. I’d had a half [...]
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Lazing on a sunny afternoon
Blog: Send The Bugger Back - 4 September 2009
I’ve spent most of the day trying to figure out my route for the next month or so, it’s not proving to be easy. Bosnia, Serbia, Montenegro, Romania, Bulgaria, Turkey, Greece, Albania and Macedonia are all on the list but the running order is tricky to work out and is very much still work in [...]
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Side splitting stuff
Blog: Send The Bugger Back - 3 September 2009
I’ve just split from the hostel and am now on my way south to erm, Split (aww come on, you knew I was gonna use it at some point). While walking to the station I passed a scary old gypsy lady begging, she looked really like the one from ‘Drag Me To Hell‘. Everyone was [...]
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Sedmica
Blog: Send The Bugger Back - 2 September 2009
Last night I spent my time clicking away on the ‘puters in the hostel getting frustrated at the minute bandwidth on offer (I reckon some wideboy was hogging it with P2P over the Wi-Fi) but my temper (patience isn’t a virtue I possess) was mitigated by the Croat beer and my chuckling away at the [...]
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That’s Hobo Bear style
Blog: Send The Bugger Back - 1 September 2009
This morning I was a good seasoned traveller and got rid of my Euros change (the currency in Croatia is the Kuna, it’s not Eurofied yet) at the local supermarket. So now I’m lugging about with me a box of penne rigate, a jar of Dolmio bolognese classico (basil and olive oil) and a little [...]
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From The Riviera to Århus and Back
Blog: Craigorio Does Italia - 23 August 2009
Okay. So I know its been about 5 weeks since I left the States and I that haven’t really posted anything on Florence so I’m going to accelerate this little journal of mine to quickly recap the rest of the … Continue reading →
