Last three days in split.
- mars bar ice creams!!
- went to the beach with George, Ben , jack, the english girls and ying. Had a few swims, found kebab in a box. Chicken and chips! Win. Had dinner at the black cat twice, had quasadillias **sp** and a mexican bean taco salad. Was pretty epic. The last night was jay, vic, George,Ben, ying, and me. I had stuffed peppers <3! Watched the tennis and sam stoza won in two sets! Went to bed.
Hung around at the hostel on the last day, went to the Piercing place got the loop, the guy told me the other guy did it wrong. So not to happy about that but oh well. Went back to the hostel vegged for a bit, then went to the ferry with cookie, guy I met from the other hostel, got on the ferry to find I had an empty room again. Went up stairs to the bar, grabbed some beers , met some fellow Aussies playing cards, and taught them how to play presidents an assholes. Was pretty fun. Arrived in Ancona an hour late, and now I'm waiting for the bus to the station so we can go chill at the hostel with the crazy Italian lady.:)

So no crazy lady, but a nice lady, who let us stay for a few hours to chill and use the net. Cookie cooked up some pasta for lunch. Was great, packed up everything, wandered down to the pick up point. And the bus was just arriving. Win! Jumped on the bus, and got on the way. After the break, got on the way again and it has started raining. 1st time I've seen rain since Liverpool and Edinburgh. I kinda missed it. Was just thinking of home. :/. Will try and do up a day by day blog for the Croatia trip soon.

But till then I'll just chill in Rome. And get to it later
These photos are from Croatia though.

Covered in bed bug bites… , and unfortunately some of them have come for the ride i have noticed. i have sprayed my bag, but there is not much i can do with the last amount of time that i have left here in ancona. its a bit shit, i should have gotten up the shitty staff at alba doro in venice, changed rooms, and maybe not had so much problems. oh well lesson learnt. one bite move rooms.and wash everything. which will probably cost me around 20 odd euro. i dont even know if you can wash the big pack…. let alone drying…

So. Venice. was interesting. loads of canals, bridges, bad smells, and gimiky tourist trap shops everywhere. i honestly dont understand how it got the name the lovers city, cynicism aside. Unless you go on the 90euro gondola around the city, there’s not much to do but get lost in the alley ways, and try and find your way out. romantic. not really. Austrian alps trek/bush trek and a picnic? yeah. some great scenery and food. now thats my idea of being romantic. if i was to be any way. of the lovey dovey bull shit, and back to the blog. i went into st marks cathedral, and up the clock tower for some impressive views. almost got falconed by some low flying pigeons, whom im told snatch food right out of tourists hands! and wandered around sweating ass off for most of the day with my roomie, madison. my camera died on the ferry in, so i used her Digital slr with her for the rest of the day. we wandered for ages around the main area around st marks square, and further up the 1st island. i thnk if we tried getting to the other islands we would have gotten totally lost and missed the ferry/bus back to the hostel aka bed bug city. it was a great but long day out. when we got back we found out it was a toga party thing on that night. so we had already got some spirits, as beers from the tap where 4euro each. what a rip off. when you could buy 500ml cans from the little market there for 1euro each, and a bottle of vodka for 10euro. we hung out in the room a bit, then went for a ‘few’ drinks that turned into many and i had to carry her back to her bed. madison was not very well through the next day at all. but it was a good lazy day.

My first night there was a pool and beer party or something. got pretty drunk that night met hannah, and nicole from nz. we drank my bottle of vodka talked alot of shit listening to metallica! was a crazy night.didnt get up till 2pm then next day, then got a beer and jumped in the pool they had there. was pretty good. then that night was the 1st toga night i went to. was pretty un eventful cept for the 12euro cocktails they had, :/ and i was in a toga. was odd as it was mainly all the topdeck people. not very talkitive outside their own group.

mk. back ontrack. got on the bus @8am on the 28th to ancona. not a very interesting city. its just a port town. went for a wander with grace and clare. two girls from canberra. found some pizza place on the way back, had dinner early , discussed going to the palombina beach the next day.

Palombina beach. what an epic beach. stretches for miles, to the eye, perfect view , perfect weather, for getting a tan. and i got sunburnt as a lobster. i now have a ridiculous tan line where my pants where… even my legs are burnt. this is even before i get on my sailing trip around croatia! but was an awesome day in the sun even went for a swim in the nice warm water of the Adriatic. we got back to the hostel, they had an early night, i booked my accommodation in split, and had an early night.

So now back uptodate, as my battery is charged for my overnight trip to split. so. imoff to catch the bus, get my tickets and get on the ferry.
boating off. pics to be attached l8r.

the streets – we can never be friends.