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Split: Top 10 Things to do
We spent a couple of days in Croatia’s second largest city, Split as part of a Balkan Road trip. It was one of my favourite places on the entire trip, with its ancient city, beautiful coastline, parks and galleries. Here is my pick of the top 10 things to do in Split. How to get…
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Zagreb: Top 10 Things to do
We spent one day in the Croatian capital of Zagreb as part of a Balkan Road Trip. It is a pleasant city, but it’s not very big (with a population of around 767,000) so a day is probably enough to see the main sights. Here is my pick of the top 10 things to do…
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Plitvice National Park
Split to Plitvice NP We get up early and set off on the 158 mile drive north to Plitvice National Park. It’s going to be a shock to the system; after 2 weeks of travelling in temperatures around 30 degrees, by night time it will be minus 2. The majority of today’s route is along…
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Croatia 6 Day Road Trip
Day 1 – Dubrovnik We only have a 57 mile drive today across the border to Croatia and the city of Dubrovnik. It’s a relief to be back in the EU where my phone works for free (it cost £4 to send a text in Montenegro), we can buy petrol that doesn’t make the car…
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Dubrovnik in 1 Day
We spent a day in Dubrovnik as part of a Balkan Road Trip. Dubrovnik is very pretty, but extremely expensive and crowded. It is peppered with more cashpoints than a Vegas casino. In my opinion, Dubrovnik is somewhat overrated. (We spent the previous day in the walled cities of Budva and Kotor, which are both…
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Zagreb in 1 Day
We spent one day in the Croatian capital of Zagreb as part of a Balkan Road Trip. It is a pleasant city, but it’s not very big (with a population of around 767,000) so a day is probably enough to see the main sights. How to get to Zagreb As mentioned above, we drove to…
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Split in 2 Days
We spent a couple of days in Croatia’s second largest city, Split as part of a Balkan Road trip. It was one of my favourite places on the entire trip, with its ancient city, beautiful coastline, parks and galleries. Two days is enough to see all the city’s main attractions, but I could happily have…