Sunday, August 27, 2006
19 August, 2006
My birthday started with a banana and a chocolate milk in our apartment on the beautiful terrace amongst all the stone, old houses of the town. We managed to squeeze out the parking (dobre dobre) the man kept shouting, whatever that means, and we were on our way to spend my birthday in Orebic. We drove to Korcula because that is where the ferry leaves from and we arrived at a queue of cars 1 km long. It was boiling hot and they told us it was about a 2hr wait. The ferry only takes 35 cars at a time and it was going backwards and forwards like no tomorrow. Whilst we were waiting we passed a hotel and Rich went in to see if we could log on. At least for that, I managed to phone home and speak to mom and dad on my big day and Rich got some e-mails done. The wait was frustrating and we should have known better. It was a Saturday and all the holidaymakers were going to mainland to get home from their vacations. We should have left the night before, the ferry runs all hours through the night. We finally arrived in Orebic and found the first apartment on the beach and settled in. We spent the rest of the day chilling on the beach doing nothing. The evening was lovely, we went to a French-run restaurant and we sat outside in the warm air sipping on Rose wine and a scrumptious seafood platter.
I had a lovely birthday! Thanks Baby!
My birthday started with a banana and a chocolate milk in our apartment on the beautiful terrace amongst all the stone, old houses of the town. We managed to squeeze out the parking (dobre dobre) the man kept shouting, whatever that means, and we were on our way to spend my birthday in Orebic. We drove to Korcula because that is where the ferry leaves from and we arrived at a queue of cars 1 km long. It was boiling hot and they told us it was about a 2hr wait. The ferry only takes 35 cars at a time and it was going backwards and forwards like no tomorrow. Whilst we were waiting we passed a hotel and Rich went in to see if we could log on. At least for that, I managed to phone home and speak to mom and dad on my big day and Rich got some e-mails done. The wait was frustrating and we should have known better. It was a Saturday and all the holidaymakers were going to mainland to get home from their vacations. We should have left the night before, the ferry runs all hours through the night. We finally arrived in Orebic and found the first apartment on the beach and settled in. We spent the rest of the day chilling on the beach doing nothing. The evening was lovely, we went to a French-run restaurant and we sat outside in the warm air sipping on Rose wine and a scrumptious seafood platter.
I had a lovely birthday! Thanks Baby!
# posted by Heidi & Richard's travels @ 2:51 AM 
