Day 19 - 17/08/14 - Rijeka!

  

Can't actually believe it's almost been a year since we left for this trip and I've still not written every day up yet! Oops.. Just shows my commitment and dedication to doing this! Hehe... I am determined to finish it though as it will be a lovely memory for myself and Archie, one day haha.

So we woke up in the little town of Rijeka. We showered and headed towards the bus station to get our bus to the nearest beach called 'Kostrena'. We grabbed a bit of something for lunch from a Croatian equivalent of 'Greggs' and packed it away in our beach bags (equipped with towels and suncream!) 

First of all we weren't 100% sure which bus to get or even how to buy 1 admission on a bus here, it all seemed pretty confusing and the instructions that we were given by the locals wasn't too clear either... Eventually we managed to get off the bus at exactly the right stop and ended up at this marvellous place:

 

We pitched our towels up first of all in this little cove where we got chatting with a really friendly group of Croatians. This girl told us of how hard it was to get a job there and that she had qualified from university yet had been unemployed for 4 years. She sold postcards to get by and it was quite saddening to listen to what she had to say. On a lighter note though, she recommended for us to visit an island of Croatia called 'Krk' so we planned to go the following day and had a lovely time thanks to her :)

All sunned out after hours of sunbathing until too hot and having to dive into the sea to feel refreshed we decided to call it a day and head back to our apartment to chillax ... That was when we realised... We didn't know how to get the bus back!

I can remember sitting on the curb of the road where we got off the bus praying for a return one to pass by. We daren't move incase we missed it, but had no clue if waiting there would even result in a bus! Finally we made the clever decision to walk further up the road and find a bus shelter that just HAD to have a bus go by.

We had the loveliest lounge-about in the squigdiest of beds and watched a few episodes of 'Rules of Engagement' (which neither of us had ever seen before but loved - probably because it was a channel in English hehe).

We were also recommended to eat at a restaurant along the harbour called 'La Marina' by the kind woman earlier, so we gave it a go and were SO impressed - omg it was like the best food we'd had so far. Such fresh fish and delicate flavours!!! So we also got pudding (hehe)

Walking back 'home' we spotted the one thing Rijeka was famous for - a clock tower. Night xx