Croatia

This past weekend all the IAESTE interns and Slovenian students in Maribor went just over the Slovenian border to the coast of Croatia. Saša's family has a house there that we stayed in, about 500 feet from the water's edge. Having a weekend to just relax in the sun and go swimming was fantastic. All of my preconceived notions of Croatia were completely false. Granted, I only saw a very limited part of the country, but its beautiful and everyone says that you really cant see any of the effects of the war anymore. Im really excited to see the southern most parts of the country in August when Stu comes to visit.

As it turns out, the beaches in Croatia aren't actually beaches, they're more of rocks by the water. This is why all the visitors who know what they're doing bring lounge chairs and 2 inch thick beach mats. We managed to find reasonably comfortable spots on the 'beach' but spent most of our time in the water jumping off a fishing pier because who doesnt like to jump off high things into the water?

We got up way too early one morning to catch the sunrise and got to watch some fishing boats get ready and leave the pier. Check out the name of this boat, if you can't see it, its KRAP. And the city that its from, Pula, is quite a nasty word in Romania (so Im told).