Sea, cliffs and some

Morning in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The have very strange mountain roads - very narrow, so only one car can pass. But the are two ways and marked as pretty big road in other countries. Looks like they are rebuilding their life after troubles and reached pretty good results. But still... a lot of space to improve. Although, nature here is beautiful and prices are quiet low. So we had great lunch and full tank.

We came to Croatia for the last time to see #Dubrovnik. Do you know it? Maybe you've seen it in Game of Thrones? But it is really nice old town (that is actually a castle or fortress) and harbor around. Would be a great bonus if you like computer games and medieval style.

Croatia has beautiful towns on near the sea and they know it's valuable. So visiting them will be valuable for you too. I mean expensive )) But not that bad as in Italy.

Our next goal is #Montenegro. Chorna Gora. Not that black as we've seen so far. More like 50 Shades of Gray Gora. Steep slopes with rocky mountains create beautiful views on the edge of land and sea.

Local language uses mix of Latin and Cyrillic letters creating strange combination. But if you know both of them - it's not that hard to read and understand more or less. Language looks like mix of Polish and Russian with Turkish flavor. It appeard, that knowledge of some Cyrillic  languages is very useful in Balkan countries. Not for speaking, but for understanding. And, of course, for a lot of fun. when you try to understand words.

Out of Trogir

Day on the road is a good day.
Day on the road near seaside is double as good.

So, today we are on the way from #Trogir to #Bosnia and Herzogovina. We will stick close to the #sea, so we can jump into it any moment. The weather today is really good - much wormer then before and sun+clouds create a beautiful view.

We arrived to #Makarska. Small town on our way. Time to have small lunch and swim. There is nice park near the see, so we want to explore it.

On our way to park we went to harbor and then we found new task and game: grab the ring in the harbor wall and go down. So you are as low as possible, but not in the water. We tried to do that stuff in Split but didn't finished - it was too scary to do it. But here it wasn't a city center, we can pull down our pants in case of emergency 🌝😏

And we succeeded! Hooray!

Then it was a long walk in beautiful park. It finished with nude beach with no people and it's own waterfall. Wow, that place is absolutely amazing!

Sun goes down. We passed Bosnian border and stopped at our next place. Can't see much - it's dark and we are tired. Tomorrow we will explore space nearby and later we are going to Dubrovnik.

Back in action

News for few days at once.

We've fixed our car. #Gearbox was switched to new one. And we are extremely happy about it.
Uh, having troubles with your equipment is such a pain in the back. But really - is it an adventure if you don't have thous stories?! Also it can help you to find some nice places (and what we've seen around here - is because of our dear gearbox).

We had a some travels around our base camp - #Trogir: to #Krka National Park. Beautiful big #park with tons of waterfalls, lakes, rivers and vegetation. Among this beauty there is wooden road, that adds fairytale atmosphere to the nature. Actually park is pretty big, it's huge valley with a lot of things to see. But we chose only one part with this road, to pay enough attention to this wonder.

... city of Šibenik. Amazing small streets on steep slopes among stone walls, few castles around and strong winds. We had lovely hike there. But after sundown, so not much photos.

... and to city of Split. Second biggest city in Croatia (still 120k of population). Big historical area with #palace of #Roman emperor Diocletian (so, city is enormously ancient).

During our stay weather become much colder: before it was 20-25 at day (you can really be naked on the beach under the sun). But now it's 10-15, although it's still sunny. Mostly. Northern winds are coming. And we need to hurry to get to warmer Greece 🌝

Last two day we didn't swim. Travels and cold.

George and Alex decided to stay away from sweets until the end of our trip. Hmmm... that's something strange going on there

Tomorrow we will star our move to the #south - #Bosnia awaits.

Irregular verbs

Our daily tasks transformed mostly to physical activities. More squats, push ups, pull ups etc. Not that much to say about, but definitely valuable.
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But we still have some rejection therapy programs that comes ad hoc. One of them was talk to waiter in the restaurant after finishing meal and say that you have no money to pay. And try to find solution, how we can fix this situation.
Hard? Probably. Shameful? Of course. Inconvenient? Oh dear, yes! So we should do it ))
After some time of uncertainty and shy we had begun.
- Have you ever experienced the situation, when client didn't pay the bill?
- Maybe, I don't know [you can see, that waitress is even more embarrassed than you]
- So what would you do in that situation?
- I don't know.
- Ok, I understand that maybe you've never had this in personal. But here and now, what actions would you take?
- Don't know! Wash the dishes?
- Oh, That sounds reasonable. Can I do something like this now? Wash, clean, help you somehow?
- No, no, no!
- Hmm, what then? Can I do something for you to solve this trouble?
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It was pretty long conversation. That seems to be more uncomfortable for workers that to us. Looked like they would prefer us to just secretly run away than have this talk. And after about 10 minutes of suffering and trying to solve this questions with help of other workers, they just left us. Like admitted we are OK to just go without payment. So strange... we were shocked.
Consequently we left money for the lunch but... was it possible to just go away?!
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Did you have such experience?

Trogir swallowed us

So, we have one more long stop.
Now a little bit to the south - #Trogir, #Croatia. We need to deal with our gearbox to travel without problems further. So now we are waiting for the parts and service. Kinda stuck. But this stuck is beautiful. We moved to empty camping cite, put our tent near the sea and enjoy amazing views.

Croatia. The beginning.

Morning in croatian village.
Very cute house with everything you need. Very interesting to observe what people propose as AirBnB rentals in different countries. Looks like in Croatia it is unthinkable to rent an apartment without hairdryer, toaster, coffee machine, dishwasher, big screen TV, microwave, bath robes, tea... That's a lot of everything in pretty small room. And money are not that big actually, Especially if you divide that amount in 4+ people.
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Village views. Not mountains, but still pleasant. Fruits on the trees: persimmon, pomegranate, мandarin kiwi.
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We picked some places of interest on our way South.
One was old castle. We found it closed for reconstruction. But... How we could resist this type of adventure! Of course broke in and had some astonishing moments looking from the top to mist and villages below.
Other was nice art path on the mountain slope with viewpoints and sculptures made of painted boulders. We did not much, because it was rainy, wet and dirty, so we did just a quarter. But for sure - it was pretty nice place for hike. Also we had very productive discussion about motivating each other and our inner reasons to act (we had an article about that in this blog).
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In our way to Zadar. It's a long way yet, but we spent so much time now. Will we be able to get there before dark?
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Rijeka meet us with twilight, rain and car parked on the second lane. Lame. Cause we got into it. Left headlight is broken, and some damage done to plastic and metal parts. Not much, but really disappointing event. Good that car is running. Few hours waiting for police and dealing with insurance and... Ok, we are staying in Rijeka.
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Appeared Rijeka is not a village, but Petty big city. 3rd by population in Croatia! 122k of people.