Again im writing all this about a week late. I left Zagreb and the two lads and pointed myself in the direction of Split on the coast of Croatia. Although Luke and Pete were good fun to be around it was still nice to be out on the open road by myself again. Its all motorway from Zagreb to Split but even so the views of the countryside, mountains and little villages were amazing.
I got into Split in the early evening and found a cool hostel right beside the old town. On my first evening there I put up a sign on the notice board that I was heading towards Dubrovnik and if anyone wanted a free lift they were welcome. After two days I decided to move on down the coast to Dubrovnik. I had received some requests for a lift but due to timing only one guy was able to travel with me, Alec a Londoner who turned out to be a really interesting guy. He had actually traveled the same route to Australia as I am hoping to do. He did it when he was 18 in an organized tour bus with 35 other people. Naturally enough I had lots of questions for him which kept me entertained on the 3 hour trip. In Croatia the motorway ends at Split. After Split, a long windy coastal road zigs-zags its way along the rugged coastline. Again unbelievable views.
An interesting fact that I didn't know before I drove there is that Bosnia and Herzegovina cuts Croatia into two parts. Bosnia and Herzegovina has a coastline which couldn't be much more than 10 or 15 kilometers long, hence you don't really notice it on a map ........or is that just stupid Liam coming out again. Went through the normal border checks and was out of the country within 15 minutes and back down the road to Dubrovnik.
We found a hostel but unfortunately it was really shit, with the main problem being that there was a curfew at 3 am....(not that I stay out any later than midnight mother..;). Sure we settled in and just happen to meet up with two more English lads and we decided it would be a good idea to celebrate our new found friendship with a few pints. Turns out that they were heading down to Montenegro as I was two days later so I told them they could jump in and id take them down.
While we were out we also meet up with 3 South African guys who were cycling from Scotland back home to South Africa. These guys were lunatics but great craic. They had had a few though days cycling and decided to stop off in Dubrovnik for a week to relax on a yacht owned by one of there family friends. We had a good laugh with them and when we meet about 40 Australian ladies who were on a boat trip along the coast of Croatia, the night really kicked off. The amount of lads who were staying on a yacht in Dubrovnik marina doubled in a second..........best chat up line ever. They did find it a little strange that our yacht had a curfew dough.
We messed about in Dubrovnik for another night but nothing could beat the first one.
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