Wednesday, August 18, 2010

Croatian Cruising

Our couple of days in Zagreb turned out pretty nicely. We did the walking tours suggested on the tourist maps and also wandered about aimlessly exploring the city. When we went back to our hostel we met up with an Australian guy called Adam and went out to get something to eat from a beer hall that served pints for a bargain price of 9 kuna (about a quid). I seemed to end up with the biggest meal and couldn't finish it but it was cheap enough so it didn't feel as much of a waste.
After a few beers we headed back to the hostel to find that someone was in Adams bed - were in a 3 bed dorm. We strolled in making a bit of noise and some girl rolled over and said "hello". We made a quick exit and informed the reception of the problem which was swiftly sorted out - at the embarrassment of the receptionist.

After a nice long kip we got up and had a lazy stroll around the town before finding a nice spot in the middle of a park to lye down and chill out. We went out and got ourselves a pizza for dinner and then made our way to the train station to get our sleeper over to Split. We'd put our bags in lockers at the station so grabbed those and went to the platform.

We handed the tickets over to the conductor who replied "guys we have a problem" errrr what do you mean???? we responded, which is when he then informed us that our reservation was for yesterday!! Whatt!!?? we couldn't believe it! the stupid woman that booked our tickets did it for the wrong day - I admit we didn't check the date but you just expect it to be right. We were not happy.

Anyway we couldn't have our sleeper and ended up on the couchettes. Luckily we got one each with no-one opposite so could treat it somewhat like a bed although it was the most uncomfortable thing on earth. We also had some guy in our cabin area that looked like he had cut some of his fingers off, which were bandaged up but you could see the blood seeping through the dressings, far from pleasant.

After an awful nights sleep we got off the train and had a short walk to our hostel, again which had stated 24hr reception but didn't turn up until 8am. We got there about 7 and went and grabbed a drink and stuff before we could drop off our bags. We decided that we were going to sort out the ferry to Rijecka so went to do that and then went in search of the nearest beach.
We decided just to go for the deck on the ferry which meant not having a room. This resulted in us finding a space on the floor of one of the decks and spreading out our stuff to set up a place to kip for the night. The place we got was OK, although there were super bright lights on all night so I ended up throwing a towel over my face to block out the light. I had a pretty terrible nights sleep, tossing and turning all night.
When we got into Rijecka we headed straight to the bus station as the place looked a bit of a dive and got ourselves tickets for the next bus to Pula, which was only an hour away so we grabbed a drink in a local cafe and wasted away the time.

As I was still ultra tired I snoozed most of the journey to catch up on some sleep. We had booked a hostel but on our arrival found out we had booked two days in advance of when we arrived so there were no rooms. I worked out that the problem stemmed from the fact that my date on my netbook was incorrect so had screwed us over. The woman at the hostel phoned another one nearby so we had a short walk to get there, hoping they had some space.

On our arrival we were greeted by a guy who was helping out and didn't know if there was space so we were left wondering where we would be sleeping. Even when the manager turned up, she seemed to have no idea what was going on and whether there would be spare beds so we decided to go and check out some sea caves and come back later to see what the situation was.

It ended up being a bit of a walk to the caves and we passed some unsightly images in the form of naked people sunbathing, but when we got to the we loved it. There were huge caves and
people were jumping off the top of the cave into the sea....I had to have a go.

The cave jump was immense, I felt like I was free falling for ages until I hit the water and had the best rush ever knowing I have done it successfully. I gave it a few more goes, trying to get a good mid air action shot but they came out a bit blurry. It was then back to the hostel to see if we had a bed for the night. Again the hostel manager was very vague and eventually said we could stay although we were still pretty dubious. We hoped our beds would be made up when we got back and went to find the train station to find out times for trains to Ljubliana.
The station took a little while to find as we first found the old station which was derelict and the new station even looked like part of a ghost town with only one guy tucked away inside selling tickets. We got our tickets which were proper old school little pieces of card which he wrote the train time and destination on.

Once we had sorted that we then went out for dinner and a few beers, where we ended up meeting some Croatian guys who had come to Pula for a football match. I had fun showing them some magic tricks and then we headed off to a club. Half way there they met up with some of their mates which looked like skinhead hooligans so we made our excuses and left- it was about 1am anyway.

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