There and back again

Honeys, I'm home. I have a sunburn tan and all.


Holiday pros:

• Croatia is flat-out stunningly, staggeringly beautiful.
• Since the food in the restaurants has to satisfy picky Italians on holiday, it's very good.
• The hotel room was the largest we've ever had, complete with a balcony even larger than the one we have at home.
• The water was incredibly clear, with lots of cute fishes and crabses in it. This pleased my husband the fisherman immensely.
  
• The old town in Poreč was absolutely beautiful. Quite touristified, yes, but the only people near the Roman temple ruins, for instance, were young misunderstood locals dressed in black and drinking beer.
  
• We got in a day trip to Slovenia too, to the wondrous Postojna Cave and to Lipica. I don't particularly like horses, but I'm fascinated by Lipizzans and it was a joy to get to see them.
• Thanks to lovely dutyfree shopping, I now have ten wonderful 50-grams packs of Drum Halfzware, which they stupidly have stopped importing to Norway.

Holiday cons:

• Insects. They loved me. There is hardly any place on me that isn't swollen and itching, including in my ear, for fuck's sake.
• I've come to realize that I hate pebble beaches and cliffs even more than I thought I did.
• The hotel room wasn't cleaned very well.
• Bizarre breakfast routine in the hotel.

And here's the kicker - I managed to forget my camera in the hotel room every single time we went for walks. I think I got maybe two or three photos that are somewhat worth looking at. Go me. Plus, when I was planning on photographing the Roman temple ruins, they were infested with the aforementioned misunderstood young locals. I contemplated telling them I know several proper black metal musicians and gain their respect so I could ask them to get the hell away from my photo opportunity, but I didn't.



Oh, and Chris - I just got the booking confirmation. We're all set!