Croata is simply beatiful - sparkly 'caribbean blue' waters, and plenty of sunshine. We were lucky; it only rains during the night, and is a really comfortable lullaby when we sleep in Hotel Diahatsu. Hotel Diahatsu is our car when we use it as sleeping quarters, Diahatsu being the brand. I can tell you, Hotel Diahatsu is not one I reccommend - but when the highway streches on and on along the coast line, and all the B&Bs are closed for winter, what choice do I have... Except complain, which I have already tried more than once.
Anyways, we didn't need to lose our sleep the first night in Croatia, and the hotel by the road (actually a health spa in the summer) was really nice - they had a . . .
Anyways, we didn't need to lose our sleep the first night in Croatia, and the hotel by the road (actually a health spa in the summer) was really nice - they had a . . .
game room with ping-pong and a pool table, with breakfast AND dinner included (you could also get lunch), for all four of us, and a later discovered the swimming pool, for a budget price... We didn't want to leave this Hotel Zagreb. (I was told we weren't actually in Zagreb - you wouldn't believe how bad my geography is, yet how much it's improved over this trip!)
Now I'm afraid I'll have to skip through Croatia to Dubrovnik. I'll start with our apartment - a little drive away from the walled city, and we had a beautiful view of a tiny bay with sailboats, sparlking water and small rocky beahces. The colours of the water just amazed me - nothing like Bowen, because at my tiny island the rocks just drop off under the water to a deep bottom of starfish.
The walled city of Dubrovnik is old - REALLY old! We went into a church first, with a magnificent organ! We like to sit and stare at everything for a while, and Dad almost sat on a purse - with forty euros and a phone in it! So we kept it with us, and hopefully the perosn it belonged to would call it, and we'd be able to meet up.
We walked around, Mom and I going into stores, much to the boys complaint. We split up and after window shopping for another half hour, we got bored and decided to go to the meeting place - a huge fountain by the entrance with twenty foutain heads and only two dribbling small amounts of water. When we met up with them they had icecream! No way I was going to let that slip - I practically dragged Mom over to the nearest gelato store! The lady was really nice and gave me a double cone, plus free tasting if we wanted. Afterward, Mom asked for a lick and knocked the whole scoop off the cone, so of course she went and got me another (it was okay because I actually didn't like the flavour I got so it was a good excuse to get a different kind).
After everything was eaten we decided to explore more of the city and while we were just walking away the lost phone began to ring, and after a fumble Mom found it in the depths of her purse and answered. We met up with the owner and he offered to buy us icecream. We refused his offer but thanked him anyway - he thanked us a lot, too.
- Allie
After everything was eaten we decided to explore more of the city and while we were just walking away the lost phone began to ring, and after a fumble Mom found it in the depths of her purse and answered. We met up with the owner and he offered to buy us icecream. We refused his offer but thanked him anyway - he thanked us a lot, too.
- Allie
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