August 1, 2010
Culture Shock in Croatia
We spent a long day driving on the autostrada, all the way from Venice to Trogir, near Split, here in Croatia. Coming through Slovenia on the way was particularly scenic--green hillsides and small meadows and red-roofed villages. Most of the trip through central Croatia was quite boring as we were on the motorway, and the landscape is fairly uniform with dry rocky hills and lots of tunnels.
Arriving in Trogir and making our way to the apartment we have rented for a week in Okrug Gornji, a small resort town on the island of Ciovo, was quite an experience. To say the roads in this area are narrow is an understatement. We often had to pull over to make way for oncoming traffic. This town is a jumble of roads which seem like driveways amidst hundreds of apartment blocks. We finally found the address of the woman who manages this apartment (I rented it from Paul Somebody in Britain), and she took us to the apartment. While it is, I suppose, exactly as was described on the website, it is not as lovely as I had expected. The beach is only 50 metres away, true, but it is a narrow rocky bit of shoreline jam packed with tourists and holidayers who love to smoke and get their bodies very brown.
We found a market, bought some groceries and cooked our dinner before heading to bed (a squeaky one). Tomorrow will be better. Feeling a little homesick as we have been away for a month now.
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