On the road to Plitvice

From Dubrovnik we made our way up to Plitvice national park. We had considered hiring a car but we all agreed that it wouldn't be worth the potential stress of driving. We instead chose to use public transport and break our journey in Sibenik, a small coastal town. We had to go back through Split but our bus connections worked very smoothly and we ended up in Sibenik in the late afternoon.

After a bit of traipsing around we found somewhere to stay although Adam and mum managed to lose each other (that's the diplomatic way of putting it) and they missed out on half a beer each.

The place we were staying had a washing machine which is always a big plus when travelling about so we got down to the laundry. We did wonder though how the laundry/beer drinking jobs were allocated.

We spent the evening wandering through the town with many, many winding streets almost managing to lose each other again and had a relaxed dinner with Dad trying to do his best Mr Bean eating langostines impression.

On the way home that night we passed hundreds of young teenagers out and about partying in bars and on random stairways. It was hard to imagine it being an ordinary Saturday night occurrence, it was hard to see where so many teenagers could come from in such a small town, there were just too many of them to be all from this town.

The next day was another early morning. We had more early morning buses than sleep ins on this holiday. The bus trip to Plitvice was quite a nice one as we passed through areas away from the coast it was quite a nice change.

Croatia has never had a decent road network partly because of the shape of the country, but mainly because most of the countries income has always gone into increasing tourism and not into the other infrastructures of the country. On the way to Plitvice we drove down the newly opened motorway which instead of going around or over the mountain range they went straight through it via massive bridges and a multitude of tunnels, the longest of those tunnels being over 5.5 km long.

Photos: Photos 1 & 2: The way it should be, They got it a little wrong.