While we were in Istanbul Laura noticed on Facebook that her Ausie friends Nat and Lia were in town. The trouble with traveling is we do not have cell phones to easily call or use internet on, so we had to rely on FB communication in our attempts to meet up. Needless to say, we were unsuccessful. Laura was excited when she saw that they were also in Mykonos the same time as we were, but again using FB only when we could make it to the internet made it quite hard to find them. Clearly it was meant to be as we ended up running into them on our flight to Croatia! The ladies were traveling with two other friends, Michelle and Ereni. From the moment we arrived in Dubrovnik it became a lovely little girls’ holiday! We had such an amazing time with these girls and were so sad to say goodbye to them!
Our first day we went to a little island off Dubrovnik called Mljet (pronounced Milyet – though I kept calling it Midget bc the l looks like a capital i). Mljet is considered to be one of the most beautiful of the Croatian islands. It is most known for its two salted lakes - Veliko and Malo Jezero that are located at the north end of the island. We rented bikes and rode around the lakes. So remember how I decided I was not a mountain biker back in April? Well add 1.5 months of zero exercise (unless you consider walking down the block to the beach as exercise?) and about 30 degrees more heat (~90°F). Luckily the ride was no where near as hard as Bariloche, but boy did I realize I am out of shape!
After the ride we decided we needed to reward ourselves with some cocktails while we waited for the boat back to town. We ordered one of the Ausie girls’ favorite drinks (in Croatia it’s called a rattler, I forget the name of it in Australia) - half beer/half sprite (which I guess they call lemonade in Oz). They were quite refreshing and very delicious! We decided to keep the party going on the ferry ride back to town and then went for a nice dinner on the promenade near our hostel.
The next day was spent on the beach (gotta keep up our tans). That night we visited the amazing Old Town. Old Town and its many sights (including the well-preserved city walls along which you can walk) is the main sight of Dubrovnik. I was told that it would be ridiculously hot if we went mid-day so we decided to head over there a little before sunset. After spending about an hour window shopping around town we decided to head up to the walls.
After taking about 1,000 photos we were all ready to eat! Dinner turned into quite the night… at dinner Laura and I convinced Lia and Erine to extend their travels and meet up with us in Central America after they did The States. Clearly we had to celebrate – so every time our liter bottle of wine was empty I would yell “more wine!” In total I think we had about 7 liters of wine between 6 of us.
As we were about to pay our bill a group of guys dressed in yellow shirts came running past. One was in a super-hero outfit. We discovered that this was a buck’s night celebration (bachelor party). After putting on a show for us and taking several pictures, they convinced us to follow them to another restaurant where they would be meeting the hen (bachelorette) party and together the group would go to a “discothèque”. It ended up being the most random hilarious night ever!
Our first day we went to a little island off Dubrovnik called Mljet (pronounced Milyet – though I kept calling it Midget bc the l looks like a capital i). Mljet is considered to be one of the most beautiful of the Croatian islands. It is most known for its two salted lakes - Veliko and Malo Jezero that are located at the north end of the island. We rented bikes and rode around the lakes. So remember how I decided I was not a mountain biker back in April? Well add 1.5 months of zero exercise (unless you consider walking down the block to the beach as exercise?) and about 30 degrees more heat (~90°F). Luckily the ride was no where near as hard as Bariloche, but boy did I realize I am out of shape! |
| (Left to right: Michelle, Ereni, Lia, Laura, Nat, Ashley and Me) |
After the ride we decided we needed to reward ourselves with some cocktails while we waited for the boat back to town. We ordered one of the Ausie girls’ favorite drinks (in Croatia it’s called a rattler, I forget the name of it in Australia) - half beer/half sprite (which I guess they call lemonade in Oz). They were quite refreshing and very delicious! We decided to keep the party going on the ferry ride back to town and then went for a nice dinner on the promenade near our hostel.
After taking about 1,000 photos we were all ready to eat! Dinner turned into quite the night… at dinner Laura and I convinced Lia and Erine to extend their travels and meet up with us in Central America after they did The States. Clearly we had to celebrate – so every time our liter bottle of wine was empty I would yell “more wine!” In total I think we had about 7 liters of wine between 6 of us.
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