I remember waking up dead early in the morning to the train guy ripping open the door to inform us we were 20 mins away. It was so hot and bright! I lent up on my elbow in my tiny space (you literally have like coffin-size amount of space on the night trains), wriggled on my jeans under the sheet and blanket that you're given as a quilt and queued for the water from the sink in the loos to brush my teeth.
We had absolutely no clue where to walk from the station and also no idea where-abouts the town, our apartment, the beach ... ANYTHING was in this place. But we were here! In Croatia! For a sort of real relaxing, sun gorging, top up tanning beach holiday! We eventually (after like an hour's trek in the sun) found ourselves outside what we thought our apartment was. But - It wasn't, and neither was the next place - haha. And when we did actually get there, we must have waited an hour on top of that for the guy to turn up! What a bloody polava!
To be honest though, the guy running this apartment was so sweet and funny it kinda made up for him being late. He tickled Archie's belly when he met him!
Our room was pretty cool, we had a lovely double bed, wardrobe to actually HANG our clothes up, a TV, radio, (: AIRCON :) settee, desk, sweeties and a shared bathroom (only annoying thing really).
The guy offered us more than enough towels to shower every day and go to the beach with, which was a lovely luxury as we'd been previously renting towels and putting own deposits for them too!
5 Lovely days of pure bliss! The weather forecast did show storms on our last 2 days, but even if it did tip it down it would just be nice to lounge about in this room!
So for our first day we set out for some brunch and a quick look around the place. We must have searched every single food place on the front and nowhere had even heard of this thing called 'breakfast'. In fact, the more we looked around the place, it seemed no Croatians ever ate out (other than McDonalds) They just drank out!
When we had fueled up Archie really wanted to hunt for the beach and paddle in the sea, but we walked for ages right through the town and couldn't find anything :( Rijeka is just a harbour, not really any coastline in the town, you have to catch a bus to get to any beaches.
We finished our day with some dinner at a nice looking restaurant for some well earned grub - yumm! We hit the hay ready for a whole day at a nearby beach tmoz.
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