i can honestly say that croatia is one of the most beautiful places on earth. imagine: the islands are made of this beautiful white rock, contrasted with forests of deep green colored trees and all of this sitting in the middle of the bluest, freshest water. during my visit to croatia, teal, christine and i saw the islands of korcula and hvar. both seemed to be straight out of some crazy utopian world.
the funny thing is- we went to croatia for our spring break which was halfway through march. nobody informed us that the islands dont really get poppin' till the first weeks in may. so...everything was dead. in a nice way! let me tell you, with all the florence craziness, a relaxing spring break was sort of needed.
to give you an idea of how dead it was...we only had basically ONE choice of a restaurant to eat our meals at. that leads me to the subject of hospitality...the croatians art quite possibly the most hospitable people that i have ever met in my lifetime. maybe its all the fresh, fabulous air? or maybe everyone is always slightly high on smiley drugs? not sure. but ive never felt so welcome in a foreign place.
when we arrived at our first hostel, the owner (whos name i could not for the life of me 1. remember or 2. pronounce if i could remember) sat us down, fed us the most scrumptious dried figs (they are known for their figs) and gave us the strongest homemade liquor i have ever touched my lips to. i like strong drinks. i choose to drink whiskey on the rocks. this stuff, i think if i actually swallowed it, i would have been jumping from rooftop to rooftop, topless. for real, people. (a thought- maybe this is why they are all so chill?) on top of the strong drinks and figs, this man, all warm smiles, made us feel like family. upon realizing the VERY short list of eateries, he insisted that he would find a way for us to have an amazing seafood dinner. he called his friend up and told them to open their restaurant to cook for us and only us. (this restaurant hadnt been open since the end of the season which was easily september). a personal chef basically! if that isnt hospitality, i dont know what is.
the view from our first room
our time on the islands was made mostly of finding hidden sunbathing spots in the rocks that line the shore. we found a few amazing spots- one spot is featured in my current profile picture on facebook that has caused such a huff among everybody. i mean, come on people. if youre going to go topless, it should be in croatia!
PHASE TWO of our croatian adventure: the mainland and the spectacular plitvice lakes
check out the video for a peek at our journey:
waiting for our car after the rental guy brought us the wrong one. i looked as the stick and said uh, somethings wrong! so teals a bit sad cause she wanted the little red car.
a better picture than the stuff in the video of what we were seeing on our drive
we walked miles on top of the water of the lakes (these hand rails were a happy surprise because usually there was no protection)
veliki SLAP (slap means waterfall. that was fun to say)
to see more of the lakes, watch this video i found on youtube. the music is...interesting.
but! the scenery is beautiful!
heaven.
a mini cave that i just needed to explore. it would have been awesome if i found a bear in there.
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