lake balaclava

Lake Balaclava ..... a homage to Hannah's outrageous reference to Hungary's 'Lake Balaton', one of the destinations we're visiting in our exploration of eastern europe. When i say 'exploration of eastern europe', i really mean our exploration of a youth hostel in budapest, a hungarian lake (that has this slide that goes into the lake!) and the southern coast of Croatia... but thats just because our trip doesnt really last for that long (like 20 days or something) ... .

here's a picture of the famous lake balaton/balaclava (well its more of the campsite we're going to):





now, you're probably wondering why i chose 'balaclava4ever' as the name of this amazing blog ... well i'll explain. basically me and hannah were trying to come up with a name for the original travelling group (me, her, anna and penny) and being that there were four of us and balaclava had to be in the title (and nobody else wanted to join our exploration/adventure) , 'balaclava4ever' was understandably chosen.

i know it probably seems hard to believe but yes, nobody wanted to go with us which, was quite an emotional ... apparently eastern europe was shit (gruff), and alot of people thought they wouldn't have fun if they came with us ( alexandra) and there were the other people who just wanted drugs. but now, quite shockingly the balaclava trip has attracted double numbers! - and it promises to be pretty damn fantastical.

So the people coming are ..... (in order of joining the trip)

sabina, anna, hannah and penny
and
gruff
ralph
ri
(who make up the core 7 who are coming everywhere)
and
rachel m (prob meeting us in split)
gunes (prob meeting us in zagreb, but hasnt booked his ticket yet and really should get his mum to asap- [the istanbul->zagreb one gunes, from the thursday to the sunday])
alex and jenny (prob meeting us in split)
and probably olly, iggy and checkers (dunno wher they're meeting us)

so yea, it should be great. probably better than the other self-discovery trips that are going on at the same time (see links to view their blogs).

i dont have much else to say ... i'll put some more pictures of where we're going up in my next *revision break*. oh yea and i'll put the minutes to our "secret meeting" up when we have it to hehehehehehe.

- sabina xxx