Eastern Europe Archive

After staying out in Split until 5am last night, it was no easy task this morning waking up at 8am to get my 11am bus ticket to Medjugorje. Oh yes, Medjugorje. It’s an apparition site where Mary appeared to some young kids on a mountain and …

One night at my hostel, I met up with these aussies who were going on a big sailing trip. Apparently, unbeknownst to me, this is the thing to do in Croatia-book these week-long sailing trips which are basically glorified booze cruises. It …

  I was first told to go to Split when I was in Barcelona, and was at a hostel talking to a girl from Croatia. “OK,” I said, “So I should go to Dubrovnik, Hvar, and Spit?” “Not Spit, Split,” she corrected …

Wow, talk about running behind schedule… half way through my trip and not a single blog post! I’ve been busier than I expected, and short on writing time. I’ll give you a brief synopsis of my past few days, then we can backtrack later …