Having made the decision to bus rather than ferry to Dubrovnik, we did NOT have to get up at 5:00AM on Tuesday morning! Yay! Instead Nigel got a blissful sleep in until I woke up about 6:30 :P Then after packing up & having one more cuppa at the lovely F-caffe we settled in for the 4.5 hour bus ride from Split to Dubrovnik. It's pretty spectacular scenery the whole way because you're traveling along the coastline, but it's also very windy & bumpy…and ...

Monday was a lovely, long, lazy day :) We did a whole lot more of nothing…got up, went for a stroll, stopped for coffee at F-café, which has big comfy outdoor couches under umbrellas looking out over the ocean. Sat there for a couple of hours, not doing much. Went & booked some bus tickets to Dubrovnik - we were going to take the 12 hour ferry, but upon finding out that the bus only takes 4-5 hours we figured that was a MUCH better option than getting up...

Hello. I'm Olivia, and I'm a Croatiaholic. ("Hi Olivia!" :P). So after our first full day in Croatia I'm officially in love with this place. Now THIS is a holiday! How can one have a holiday within a 5 months holiday you ask? Well, sometimes when you're traveling for that long & every single day you feel compelled to walk around & do things, learn things about the places you're in, visit old churches, be cultural etc. you really just crave some time to ...

On Saturday morning we made a quick trip to the central market hall, which was just down the road from our hostel, before we had to leave for our flight to Split. It's a really beautiful big shed-like building with two levels absolutely packed with stalls selling everything from fresh fruit to delicious pastries to gifts, souvenirs, & clothes. I could probably have spent hours in there just wandering around but unfortunately we only had 45 minutes to spare ...

On Tuesday morning we left Prague at 8:30AM for Vienna. Having spoken to several people about our travels & having heard on a number of occasions that Vienna was lovely & well worth a visit, we decided to leave Prague a day early & go to Budapest a day later so that we could fit in a couple of nights in Vienna in between. Being a pretty big Sound of Music fan from an early age I've always wanted to go to Austria (& yes, I know that's Salzburg, b...