Paris

Villa Giulia

"Where the Land Meets the Sky Meets the Sea"

Croatia- Split and Dubrovnik!

The second day we took a ferry to Supetra Port and we walked along the water on the island of Brac. It was almost completely deserted, but we ended up finding all of these abandoned resorts, and really great small coffee shops. The views were unbelievable.. and while Dan and Andrew skipped rocks, Hillary, Steph and I laid on the concrete boardwalks, and just let the breeze wash over us.
The first day we climbed Marjan mountain which was so cool! We could see across to all of the islands that surrounded Split's port and we could see all of the marinas, and there was a regatta going on, with tons of little sailboats scattered everywhere. It looked so surreal to see the huge great mountains cascading in the background, and the huge green trees sticking out, and breaking the streaks of blue and teal water that surrounded us...with the little white sailboats and the white caps, it was unreal..
I took this picture on our hike up Marjan, where we ran into 3 or 4 small chapels that were closed, but so tiny and beautiful.

Our fourth day we spent walking the wall of Dubrovnik. It was so high up, but showed the city and old fort in a much different setting. It was so different than split, everything was much more compact, and close together, and it was very sunny and warm, we spent about 2 hours stopping and lounging in the sun..laughing about our past four days of traveling..the bus rides, the hostels we stayed in, the people we had met, and the great food that we had eaten.

Croatia was nothing like I expected, much better than I ever could have imagined, and maybe that's why I was so blown away by it. The people were so friendly, and with their thick accents seemed scary at times, but then they would laugh or smile and everything was okay. The food was so amazing from the pizza to the bread to the pastries to the bananas. And I was not expecting to see so much nature, but we were literally breathing it all in..between freezing on the top of the Ferry between Split and Supetra to ducking tree limbs and "crab-like" bushes while hiking Marjan. Then the night walks along the coastlines and rock climbing while the sun was setting.