See Ya!: Croatia in pictures

morning coffe just before anchoring in Croatia

everyone's ready to land and leave the floating party behind

kissing area

after a rough night on the deck seat floor

Our first
breakfast in Croatia!

local market in Split

Coming through, coming through!!

Split

Grgur Ninski Statue .He was the Bishop man that started the use of Croat language in religious teaching, and countered the desire of the Roman aristocrats and the Pope in 926. Gregory Nin continued religious ceremony n Croatian through his life, instead of use of Latin, and in today times became a symbol of pride for the people. They come to rub his toe for good luck, or make a secret wish to come true. The Italians still have a bit of distaste for him, and moved the statue out from inside the wall during the occupation in WWII. The sculpture was made by Ivan Mestrovic in 1929 to commemorate the 1000th year since Nin's use of cultural language in religion. It stands about 20 feet high, and is in the park on the north side of the walls.

What's going on on the picture, one might wonder, why are we drying our clothes in the middle of Split? While in Italy, senjoor Pino washed ALL our clothes (thousand thanks for that) and they had been wet in our bags since we left Turin, whole night we sailed to Croatia and half a day we spent looking around the old town..so we desperately needed to dry them and where would've beem the best place than not ina lovely green park, so, once again we set up our gypsy camp. And it didn't take long til the park ranger arrived and said pointing around us: "This, this, this and you must go!"

Lunch bags given to us by some generous Italian tourists in Croatia :) we must've look quite homeless, surely not starving with our extra kilos we've put on our sporty kinda trip ;)

Mirjam's got a narrow street fetish

colours of Split

travel is the way of life!

we cycled out of Split but just out and no more til we came across this feast in Solin..

and there she goes..there she goes again. meat eater!

and our new Solin friend who took us for coffee

found even narrower street in Trogir

that's a little cuppoard in a taxi park in Trogir but be careful..

if you wanna touch it you'll get an angry row from the taxi drivers hihihihi

Trogir

local market in Trogir where we got ripped off buying a melon in English!

view from our campsite

the view, over priced melon and happiness

guess who's sleeping?

first fishing in Croatia

We've got the world in our hands and the moon between our fingertips!

Croatian sunsets were magical

good morning!

and we gave up counting cents! life's for enjoying!

šibenik

šibenik Cathedral

Šibenik Cathedral

close up of the Cathedral

another interesting campsite above the town

in the Krka National Park

Krka National Park

Skradinski buk - the most popular place in Krka National Park

heading to Visovac island

Visovac Island

camping half a kilometer out of the national park

we found this archeological site in Bribir with an old and still in use cemetery and decided to spend the night up there

i have to say that sleeping up there was not easy...had to sleep with one eye open for the ghosts

with the night falling all the sounds of the nature came out..some of them i wish i'd never hear again

that's how it all gets written down

dinner time!

wasn't so scary in the morning

a lovely morning coffe break on the cross road

another day has passed with images that'll stay with us forever - empty towns, cities even and houses with bullet holes

let the pedestrian cross the road

Zadar train station

on a one wagon train from Zadar to Zagreb. Change over in Knin. Croatian rules - what rules!!? We were even given an ash tray so we could fully enjoy our Croatian rum hanging out train window , watching villages disappearing into darkness.

Once in Knin at 00:00 slightly buzzing on the rum we waited for our next train. Instead of train came a young Croatian soldier who informed us about the fire in the military's explosions warehouse and how the whole town had to be evacuated and the roads are closed..so no train. but there was a bus to pick us up and off we went...biggest detour around the area to another spot and by 3:00 am we were on another train heading to Zagreb.