Sunday I woke up to the sound of rain falling outside. It was lovely. I think I was much more excited about it than Jessie was :P I suppose it's kind of exotic for me, but not for the people of Sweden! Jessie said that actually the weather recently has been somewhat colder & rainier than Sweden would normally be this time of year, hence she is not very impressed! But it was kinda nice because we had no plans for the day except to take it easy & make our...

Forgot the damn tissues again!! When the alarm went off at 5:00AM this morning I peeled my puffy eyes open & couldn't really believe it was already time to get up. Nigel & I packed up, took a taxi to the nearby bus station & then I pretty much burst into a fountain of tears after that. I was the last one on the bus but the grumpy bus driver had no sympathy or time for long goodbyes. I walked through the bus full of people staring at me, sniffling &a...

Nigel's last full day in Europe :( Very, very sad faces all round. Particularly because we had to get up at 4:00AM. Sad, grumpy, sleepy faces! We had a relatively smooth journey back to Paris all round though. We met a Brazilian girl at the hostel in the morning who was also leaving for the airport so instead of having to wait for the bus we all split a taxi because it worked out to be not too much more expensive. Then we flew from Dubrovnik to Zagreb, & Za...

Thursday was our last day in Dubrovnik, our last day in Croatia, & really our last proper day of holiday together :( But despite the sad thought of Nigel going home hanging over both our heads we still had a wonderful day. We were up pretty early in the morning to try & beat the crowds of cruise ship tourists onto the old town wall. The cruise ships dock in Dubrovnik every day around 9:00AM & hundred of leather sandal clad tourists flood into town, ...

On Wednesday morning we could see no sign of the hostel staff so we went to get a cuppa while waiting for our included breakfast to appear. We sat outside at one of the restaurants in the centre of town & were served by a lovely Croatian man who spoke very proudly about his Croatian history & friends he knew who had moved to Australia. He was a very strange mix of warm & hospitable, whilst also being scary in the kinda way that makes you not want to...