After
arriving to the Split bus station at 6A.M., Liesbeth and me, who were both
wrecked, quickly found a place to crash. That’s the awesome thing about
eastern-europe. You can arrive at a city, without even knowing where to sleep
that night. Because once you get out of the bus or train, at least a dozen
people jump towards you shouting ‘zoda, zimmer, room!’, meaning they have some
extra rooms, or even a whole floor, or studio which they rent per night.
Usually this is even cheaper than hostels and sometimes you even have your own
kitchen or bathroom (sometimes no kitchen, or bathroom to be shared with host
family).
Basically,
that’s what happened in Split. We got jumped by a lot of people who tried to
convince us to go to their place and the second guy we talked to looked ok.
That’s why we decided to go take a look at the place he was offering us. Two
rooms with double beds and a shared bathroom with the family for about 17euros
per person per night, in one of the most expensive cities of Croatia. Not bad
at all! We took it and went straight to bed.
Around 11AM
we woke up again and decided to hit the beach, where we tanned (and got burned
a bit) until 5Pm when Toon and Heike arrived (that’s his girlfriend, I know
it’s a funny name. But hey, she can’t help it). We went to pick them up at the
bus station and then hurried back to the beach. Once there we had two girls
coming towards our group to invite us over to a Pub Crawl for that night.
15euros for 1hour all you can drink and then three drinks in three different bars.
After some
discussing we decided to do it and hit the pubs. First on was the one hour free
drinking: that didn’t go too well. Half of the alcohol was mixed with water and
the other half was not available during ‘free hour of booze’. Slightly
disappointed we took the train (yes a mini train, like in the amusement parks!)
to the next bar. Free drink was: 1 shot (dafuq!). We ended up buying a LITRE of
Sex On The Beach for only 16euros, that was a good deal. But their marketing
had worked. They just wanted to get the foreigners to be tempted by pub crawls
and then to start drinking in the other bars.
We did two more bars, same story concerning the free drink, and had one
more LITRE of Cuba Libre. Around 3ish we got home safe and sound.
The next
day was more of the same with sleeping until late, sunbathing and then
(finally!) some sightseeing of the beautiful city. Instead of eating the local dishes we ‘had
to’ go to McDonald’s, almost half an hour walking. But hey, I didn’t complain….
The next day was going to be awesome!
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| Are you ready to jump? |
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| you know, romantic stuff... |
AND IT WAS!
Day 24 of EEET2012 was another water-day! We had booked a whole day (well
3,5hrs at least) of canyooning in Croatia baby! Another awesome and beautiful (because of the
weather and the view) day! It was more rockclimbing than actually canyooning,
but I had fun.. whatever!! Haha
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| The view from above the canyon |
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| Getting ready! |
That
evening, tired after a hard day of sports, we all took a 3hr husride to Zadar.
The next, and unfortunately, final destination of EEET2012!
peace out_
Toon&Heike,Liesbeth&Thibault
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