Archive for September, 2005

Part 5: Croatia – Plitvice Lakes National Park

Posted by: Melanie27th September, 2005

If you ever happen to be in Croatia you must check this place out. It is astonishingly beautiful and looks picture perfect. It is as if you were flicking through an art magazine. Josip’s Uncle Tom took us here for a day trip as it is only around an hour and a half from Karlovac.
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Part 4: Croatia – Zagreb

Posted by: Melanie26th September, 2005

We got to spend a day in the city of Zagreb the Capital of Croatia. We took a bus there as it only takes around an hour from Karlovac. When we got there we had a look around the city it is quite pretty and old looking as most European cities. The cathedral we had [...]

Part 3: Croaita – Karlovac City

Posted by: Melanie25th September, 2005

We also got out of the village for a day and managed to see the Karlovac city area thanks to Branimira (Josip’s uncle Steve’s girlfriend). She took us to her house where she lives with her parents, her son, her brother and his family. They all have there own level or apartment but have the [...]

Part 2: Croatia – Karlovac

Posted by: Melanie20th September, 2005

Finally getting to Cro was awesome but it was even better to know that we would be spending time with family. We stayed with Josip’s grandparents (baka & djeda) for about a week. They live in a village called Zamrsje which is in the City of Karlovac about 1 hour drive from the capital Zagreb.

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Part 1: Croatia – Split

Posted by: Josip17th September, 2005

Today we were heading of to Croatia. We were both really excited besides the fact that we knew there was no sleep for us that night as our flight was departing from London’s Gatwick Airport at 6am. So we pulled an all nighter in order to get to the airport by around 4am in time [...]

Croatia Trip

Posted by: Melanie16th September, 2005

The reason we came here was to travel and now we are finally going on our first trip since arriving in London. And of course Croatia is our first travel  destination. We are both excited but of course I am more so as I have never been there before even though I call myself a Croatian.
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Tower of London: Part 2

Posted by: Josip1st September, 2005

Some of the pictures in this blog entry may look familiar because we have been to the Tower of London before. However today we actually payed the 15 Pound to get in and see what was behind the big old gates. The tower of London is basically a huge castle like structure which was like [...]