Loading ...Back in Eck with road trip story + new photo gallery
missycola @ 10:04 pm Kategorie: Natey&Cola & Pix & TravelAloha, how have you been? (Finally I finished this post that is already a bit old…sorry)
Nathan and I safely arrived home from our Europe trip (ehm…already 2 weeks ago…oops) and we are glad that the hot time takes a break in Germany. We had hot/humid weather the whole trip. Puhhh…. Yes, it was a very tough climate in Croatia. “Only” 36 Celsius but extremely humid. Our friends in Croatia said that it was an extreme heat wave and that it is normally not like that. I’m don’t want to know how bad the heat was inland, in Zagreb (the capital) for example… . Well, we had a great time with Ivor and Maja; friends from Nathan. We stayed at their house in Pula for 10 days. It was great!! Here a photo from our last dinner together on their terrace, with Nathan, Ivor, Maja (and me taking the photo)
We had fish (self-caught..of course), mussels and prawns (bought at the local fish market), plus salad, bread and very good Croatian wine.
Unfortunately I couldn’t post photos the last time, because we had only a slow modem connection. But now I’m back home and I can use with my speedy DSL connection, yeah.
In the last days/weeks I filled up my (new, not yet mentioned) gallery with the photos from our trip, because I figured out that it might be easier to link you to the gallery than to post (all) the photos in my blog (what would make it loading longer and longer…).
Nathan and I are pretty good with backpacking all over the place now…hehe…last year we did a Germany sightseeing trip (except for eastern Germany we saw almost everything). This year we planned on visiting his friends in Pula (Croatia).
The first stop of our journey was “Berchtesgarden” (south of Germany, alps). We camped one night to drive to Austria the next day. In Austria we stopped in St. Johann and hiked to the “Lichtensteinklamm”, which was discovered 1875-1876. You’ll find our photos from our travel through the beautiful Austrian alps here:
After driving the “Grossglockner-Hochalpenstrasse” (Grossglockner is the highest mountain in Austria) our trip lead us through Italy, where we stopped in Trieste, because I could get money from the Deutsche Bank there without paying transfer fees 
The funny thing was that I only had the street name where the bank was supposed to be. We didn’t have a map of Trieste. Trieste was pretty big, about 210.000 inhabitants and who knows Italys traffic will say Italians are crazy drivers. So we had to navigate through this unknown town. I drove and Nathan tried to read the italian road signs *g* what was very funny if you would have heard his pronunciation.
Ok, we tried to follow our instincts and followed a road sign for the financial district of the town. Very narrow streets and everything one way *grrr*. But then…voila!…We don’t know how we did it, but when we decided to park our car to walk around to find the right road, because we already were in the center, we parked, got out of our car, walked a few meters, turned around, and….in the next crossing road was the DEUTSCHE BANK. No stop in Italy without having a typical Italian Pizza! We found a nice Pizza restaurant (ok, we didn’t find it, it was right opposite of the bank).
After eating two big magarithas we moved on….leaving hectic Trieste toward Slovenia and then to Croatia! (Nathan was always happy when we crossed a country border and he got a new stamp in his passport)
By the way, Slovenia looked very nice. We didn’t stop but the landscape was beautiful and Nathan said it reminded him of New Mexico.
We arrived in Pula on Monday evening, July 17th. Pula is a very nice town on the Croatian coast. It is quite popular for vacation. Ivor and Maja live in Zagreb, the capital of Croatia, but they have a nice house in Pula that the family shared for vacation. So we were lucky, because we could sleep in the main bedroom, which was very beautiful but I missed air condition or a fan I was so hot at night that I couldn’t really sleep the first nights. At 7.00 am the church bells started (almost every morning) to steal the rest of my night. Well, I was lucky to have my ear plugs with me.
In the 10 days in Pula we went to the beach (never go around noon, the heat will kill you, most people go after 4 or 5pm and it is still extremely hot til the evening!), we went on a boat tour to Kamenjak with Ivor’s family (VERY BEAUTIFUL!!) and fished from the boat (I almost got two big ones…almost…s***), spent lazy hours in the cleanest water I’ve ever seen at the Mediterranean Sea, had dinner parties with lots of great food (mostly fish, yum), went to a little reggae festival (by boat), went on two sailing trip with the (big!) yacht of a friend of Ivor (that was the best!! see some pics in gallery), went to many many bars to have a coffee or beer (in Croatia every day starts with going to a coffee bar to sip on your coffee, or even your tiny espresso, for at least 1 hour…strange but true) and had hundreds of hours sweat coming out of every pore of our bodies. I didn’t know if Australia was worse, but we survived *g*. What a great time…I didn’t expect that Croatia is so beautiful, although a friend (Kille) told me of its beauty (and the cheap vacation for us Germans).
If you know want to see the rest of the photos click the link to the gallery, our summer trip 06 (link removed, sorry). There are also some photos from Vienna (1/2 day visit only), where we went after Croatia, and Prague, where we stayed for a weekend. Prague was packed with tourists, so we probably picked the worst weekend in summer, but still it was very beautiful (except it smelled like pee everywhere and it was quite dirty compared to the place we’ve been before..). After Prague we went to Dresden (just for an hour to look around) and drove then non-stop back to Eckernfoerde.
Yes, we found out that two weeks of traveling was enough for us (it felt like 4 weeks), so we canceled Berlin, what we planned to see as well.
We were quite sick of big cities and traveling and sleeping every night somewhere else. Sorry Maren, I’d love to visit you! Well, next time then…
[Ahh, by the way, Maren: thanks for the post card!!!!! Very sweet of you! I read it to Nathan and he smiled at (?) the good (surprising) news.]
Ok, I think now you’re updated with some summer news and above all with tons of new pictures!
I hope you’re all well and you have a good summer as well.
I’d like to hear from you; please drop me a line…*smooch*
Take care, yours Cola aka Anja
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