Croatia, Part 1

Finally sitting down to do my Croatia post.  We got here exactly a week ago.  Getting into Zagreb was very interesting.  It’s definitely a developing country.  All I heard from my friends who visited here was how amazing it was so I had really high expectations.  I hate having high expectations.  You’re almost always let down. So, I had to temper my expectations a little bit because you do not want to be let down.  It sucks.

We were lucky enough to have a rental car brought to us.  “We need a big car!  There are 5 of us with lots of luggage.”  That’s our canned line.  And, theirs is usually “it’s really big!”  We know better now what they mean by big.  We have a Ford C-Max.  It’s probably really big to them because it seats 7.  But, for the Higmans, its never big enough.  Haha.

We literally filled this car to the brim with bags on our lap we headed down to Podstrana, just south of Split.  My butt was numb from sitting in the middle back seat.  Justin did a great job navigating his way though almost the length of Croatia and we found our Airbnb without any trouble. Our hosts, Zana and Mladen welcomed us with a shot of a homemade concoction.  I did not have it but Justin said it burned his stomach. A nice 4 bedroom 2 bathroom unit on the ground floor of a 3 story building.  This is our home away from home for the next month.  It’s really a nice place.  The owners did a great job and Justin did a good job of finding it.  We are going to be very comfortable for the next month.

The next two days were raining on and off so we just relaxed.  Lots of trips to the mall to get necessities.  The most interesting thing I saw was this at the grocery store. It’s an egg vending machine.  And, they sell eggs by 6 or 10, not 12.  That was interesting to us.  Maybe they don’t have a word for a dozen.  We don’t in Chinese so maybe they don’t here either.  Ten does make better sense to us, too.

We are about a 5 minute walk down the hill to the beach.

Kids at sunset

Looking to Split.

The water is so clear!

Looking toward Split.

They were cutting the bread right in front of us. No gloves 🙂

We found a little swim robe that Jayden decided would be fun to wear.

Since we are traveling for a year, we don’t have exciting things happening every day.  So, I’m going to just post when interesting things happen.  At some point the kids will start posting…I hope.

We took a trip into Split and visited the market and an old fort.

Old town Split

Look at those narrow streets

Ferries.

Author: HigmanTravels

We are a family of 5 traveling the world for one year. We are attempting this entire trip around the world via trains, ships/boats, and automobiles -- yes, that's right, no planes. View all posts by HigmanTravels