More of Croatia!

Wow, it's been a long time!  I have a lot to catch up on.  My last post was about Split and Dubrovnik, but that was not the only time I had been in Croatia. In October of last year I spent nearly a week on an island near Zadar.

I used most of the time in Preko to relax, but there was time for a little exercise. My friends were going cycling, and that's not really my thing, so when the girl at the tourist office suggested I walk up to the ruins on the hill, I thought, why not?  She said it was only a 30 minute walk.  My general rule is when someone from Europe tells me how long it will take to walk somewhere, I double it. So, one hour to the ruins wasn't bad.  It was more like an hour and a half on a windy road.  

Above: I probably should have known it would take more than an hour to get to the ruins; I couldn't even see them. Below: At that point, I thought I had to be halfway there--I wasn't...not on that windy road!)

Just when I thought I had made it...there was one last leg up to the ruins.

 

It was a little scary because there was NO ONE anywhere.  Occasionally I would hear a car or a plane, but that was it.  Once I got to the top, I turned my iPad to roaming, and posted a picture on facebook. I figured, that way, if anything happened to me, people would at least know where to start looking! It was worth it, though, because from the top I could see the other side of the island. 

 

 

While we were in Preko we took a day trip to Plitvice National Park. I remember thinking it was pretty when we were walking through it, but when I look back at the pictures I see just how amazing it is. Here are just a few: