The following is come collective thoughts from our time in Croatia. You have been great !!

Coffee range – having just come from morocco which has amazing coffee, I’m was delighted to find a similar situation in Croatia. The typically size though is a macchiato, which is incredibly strong. For a extra 10 cents you can get a little extra milk. For $1.50 NZ the morning fix does not break the bank. Why then is a coffee so expensive in NZ (? frontera monopoly on lattes).

Kune – also known as a open source programming language, the ‘kune’ is Croatia’s national currency. It seemed to take on other connotations as its difficult to say with a straight face, ‘I’ll see your 20 kunes on the table and raise you 5 kunes’. Having come from the Moroccan dirham or ‘D’ we are now off to the BAM or mark in Bosnia.

Weirdest word – In order to accurately describe the climate in Plitvice national park, Croatia botany
Service call the weather ‘Cfsbx’. Apart from scrabble in which it scores 19, I fail to see how you can really use it in normal conversation without sounding like you swallowed your own tongue or have something to spit out. My croatian isn’t good – I can only say thank you. Overall poor cultural effort on my behalf.

Towel vs tea towel vs bathroom Mat ? – having stayed in many hostels now, I’m still perplexed as to how far a hostel can push the ‘towel provided’ motto. Something which doesn’t wrap around your waist (mine isn’t that big at the moment 🙂 is not a towel. Neither does it constitute a towel if you can form a puddle on your towel as it doesn’t get absorbed. Hostel towel use though has proved that I can rock a pink towel.

Shower hangers – it seems that 1 out of every two shower fails to have a hanger for the shower head that’s in one piece. I’m not really sure how people manage to break them so regularly. What are they doing with the shower head and cord to snap it off the wall with such regularity. I have also become accustomed to wearing my Brazilian Havanas for every toilet/shower stop. ‘Hostel fungus feet’ is definitely a risk, and I will only make the mistake once of wearing my socks at night to the bathroom – Mystery wet socks.

Weirdest shop – we’ve seen some pretty interesting shops and street sellers lately. We have come to the conclusion that there must be a massive warehouse of fridge magnets and flying light saucers somewhere. You can see the collective agony at the end of the day, when a street seller realises that he has made no money and shouldn’t have bought 1000 Croatian winter fridge magnets so cheap. The shop with the taxidermist frogs all displayed in poses of World dictators is particular funny. It was between Zara department store and a Gucci shop on a fancy boulevard. Awesome idea.