Sailing Away in Croatia

by Dec 6, 2013100 Things, Bosnia, Croatia, Europe5 comments

Last year, our friends Jason & Leah booked a yacht through MedSailors at a travel expo (which meant a free upgrade to a premium boat) and we managed to fill it with our closest friends. This was our last big trip of 2013 and we couldn’t think of a better way to spend it than island hopping in Croatia for a week. We did nothing but swim, sun bathe, read, take photos, visit various islands, drink, and eat for a week and it was glorious! We were all able to relax and recharge from our busy lives and really enjoyed each others company.  DSC_3863 Our skipper was from Austria and he looked after us for the week. As he said, it was his job to make sure we enjoyed our holiday so he would make us breakfast and lunch each day and we had to force him to let us help with the cleaning up. He tried to teach us how to sail as well but after the first day, we lost interest and preferred to sun bathe instead. DSC_3545-001.NEF DSC_3659.NEF DSC_3670.NEF DSC_3139-001.NEF Overall, MedSailors were awesome but I also think we lucked out with a great skipper (some of the other boats had complaints about theirs) and filling our boat with friends who all had the same approach to the trip made all the difference. If you do find yourself wanting to take a similar trip, definitely look them up! Now, since a picture is worth 1000 words, I’ll share a few of the 1200 I took that week. As someone who is partial to landscape photos, I was in heaven in Croatia. Sunset photo, anyone? I took about 500. DSC_3163-001.NEF
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This bug was 50 years old. It was a beast.

DSC_3219-001.NEF DSC_3222-001.NEF DSC_3232-001.NEF DSC_3236-001.NEF DSC_3267-001.NEF DSC_3279-001.NEF DSC_3441-001.NEF DSC_3373-001.NEF DSC_3349-001.NEF DSC_3359-001.NEF DSC_3724.NEF DSC_3681.NEF DSC_3741.NEF DSC_3564-001.NEF DSC_3627-001.NEF DSC_3636-001.NEF DSC_3785.NEF DSC_4023.NEF DSC_3947.NEF P9260273 P9260261 DSC_3834.NEF When our week was done, we said goodbye to Borat (our nickname for our skipper…can’t remember his real name) and drove to Dubrovnik to spend a few days there before going back to London. There’s a section of the highway along the coast that belongs to Bosnia so we made sure the driver stopped there so we could check another country off our list (although we’ll go back properly one day)! DSC_4043.NEF DSC_4044.NEF DSC_4037.NEF DSC_4054.NEF DSC_4059.NEF DSC_4072.NEF DSC_4101.NEF DSC_4096.NEF DSC_4086.NEF DSC_4092.NEF DSC_4104.NEF DSC_4112.NEF DSC_4124.NEF DSC_4131.NEF DSC_4148.NEF DSC_4162.NEF DSC_4173.NEF DSC_4198.NEF DSC_4259.NEF *As always, there are more photos on Flickr
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