Our plan was to head by bus from Korcula to Mostar, a town just inside Bosnia. While the Internet claimed this was possible and easy, the nice but non-English-speaking lady at the Korcula bus station begged to differ. A few hours of Googling later, and after frantically reading through many years-old threads on travel forums, […]

From Hvar we took a ferry to Korcula, a less populated (and less popular) Croatian island. It turned out to be a good break from the party-centric scenes of Split, Hvar, and Dubrovnik. Korcula island is long and narrow, and for most of its length is very close to mainland Croatia. Like most of the […]

Rampant I tell you. Maybe this world needs more lawyers. (The “J” is Croatian is pronounced as a “Y”)

Arrived in Hvar on a beautiful day, warm and sunny, exactly what I’d been hoping for along the Croatian coast and islands, but yes we were hung over. We slept most the 2 hour ferry ride but we were still tired. Landing Hvar was what was explained to us, luxury The dock was surrounded by […]

Split began chilly and wet, I was upset as we were finally on the coast and by the beach and it was finally June (June 1st) damn it! I was done with the rain – No more bad weather – but by the end of our 3 1/2 days in Split we had so many […]

Our next city was a quick stop in Zadar, our first town on the Adriatic. We stopped there for a few hours on our drive to Split. It was typical of the other Croatian towns on the coast that we would visit later – a central Roman town with small marble streets, 2-3 story buildings […]

From Zagreb we rented a car to head to the Adriatic coast. While the prospect of sharing the road with Croatian drivers was frightening after walking around Zagreb, we needed to rent a car in order to reach Plitvice Lakes, a national park located in the middle of the country. We hadn’t expected to go […]

Throughout Eastern Europe, but most particularly (at least of the countries we’ve visited) in the CR, Poland, Slovakia, and Hungary, small plates are ubiquitous on shop counters. They are used for the exchange of money – you put your bills and coins on the plate, the shopkeeper takes them off the plate and puts the […]