alright .. more pictures

ok i dont have much to do now so i'll put some more pics up pour toi!




this is in hvar (croatia). On the first day i think it was, most people went to the beach area near the campsite but we (me, penny, hannah, anna and ri) wanted to go to the little cove place we'd seen on the bus so we went on a mission to find it, and it was so nice. There are quite alot of pics from there, i'll put them up at some point, but this picture is from when we were waiting for the bus on the way back and it was getting a bit dark ... the sea seemed to go on forever - it was so beautiful ... the pic doesnt really do it justice.

this is one of my favourite pics ... taken by yours truly (its my desktop background at work :) yea so this is the 'other boat' driven by Olly and Ralph that mainly consisted of; Rachel, Anna, Hannah, James (+ Ri). I think at this precise moment they were trying to speedily drive away because Fardon was trying to bang into them. Our boat was much more crazzzzy, driven mostly by Fardon and Gruff (who crashed it twice into a ferry and 800K yacht) with Iggy, Gunes, Golle, Penny and me. We went to some amazing little secluded islands and went swimming in clear water that was like 40ft deep and i think the others went to a beach that had sand (quite a novelty in croatia where beaches are mostly rocky or pebbley) and ralph went fishing. Renting those boats were so jokes .... i'm surprised they trusted fifteen 18 year olds with them but anyway ...

the other boat stayed out till the sunset and it looks fucking amazing. we came bk though because we were running out of petrol ... can't really comment much on this one cos i wasnt there.


ahh, allo;



here we are in our favourite restaurant in croatia, 'allo', i wish we got one of our classic waiter who thought me hannah and ri were 14! what a nice guy. this was in pakostane (great name, shame i cant pronounce it or any non-english word) - the last place we went to in cro...





u can see the menu there, pretty cool photo. i cant really say that much about it tho ...




Finally;



haha .. now i can talk about this baby for a while. OK, so this is on our journey all the way back to Budapest (from Pakostane) which we were all slightly concerned about considering the nightmare we had getting from balaton -->zagreb which was even a shorter distance. From pakostane we were going to have to get a bus to Zadar, then get a train to Zagreb and then get another train to Budapest. We had to leave Pakostane at 6:15pm and we arrived in Budapest the next day at 3 in the afternoon ... funnn! well we decided to make it fun and played a pretty cool round of the alphabet category game on the coach to zadar (bands, with 6 of us playing and for each letter, each of us had to name one). We we arrived at the train station in Zadar and I went to check the price of a ticket to Budapest we had a bit of a shock - it was gna cost like £38 each and no1 had enough croatian currency left and it was a sunday so no banks were open to change our travellers cheques .. so Ri had to use her card to get the money out and it was all highly stressful. I know it doesnt sound like that much compared to England, but for the rest of our journeys, we'd been paying like £2.50 a train ride and stuff ...
To make the unbelievably long train journey bearable we decided to play shit*head (joint first with pig for our card game of the trip)and whoever won got to be the 'birthday girl' and we basically had a party for them. Ralph had spare croatian money so went and bought loads of beer, vodka, an assortment of fruit juice and bar snacks and we played the amazing drinking game we learnt from Alex and Jenny. It was so much fun and even the ticket inspector wanted to join in (well, he asked for some beer anyway). This picture is us when one of the rules was you had to play with your arse in the air. Ralph and Gruff left at that moment and the game abruptly ended ... was jokes though ...

- sabychoo xxx

Long awaited update

allo!
so here i am, at work again occupying myself with making meaningless posts on this stupid blog that i dont even know if any1 looks at .. well for those of u that do boy do i have an exciting treat for u today! PiCTURES! it might not be exciting if youve already recieved my email that included a link to the same photo album these lil jems are from but these are higher resolution than the other ones which is always good.

so i'll talk u through them in case you werent lucky enough to be there (or in hannahs case have forgotten) ...






this is a classic (although we all look pretty dodgy). Thats the danger sign that we encoutered when we were climbing what looked like a rolling hill from the bottom but turned out to be a ridiculously steep mountain that had no paths - instead, just boulders, mosquitos and horseflies. it was pretty fun until i started stressing out and saying we were going to die but i did really wana make it to the top because the view would def. have been worth it (we were in lake balaton so you would have been able to see miles of water and green) so we kept going even though i was complaining outrageously but we lost pen, han and ann on the way so it ended up just being ralph, me and gruff 'climbing'. Eventually just got to this vertical rockface (imagine a 20ft sheet of what appeared to be granite) and we couldnt do anything but go back. It was pretty incredible aside from the close-to-death factor ...

haha gruff ... no doubt doing his low pitched 'arggggggghhhhhhhhhhhh' after drinking vino:





when we came bk down the 'mountain', we found all these amazing little vineyards where u could taste the local produce ridiculously cheaply (glass cost like 40p or sommit) and it was so tasty too. I dont really need to say much else about this pic of gruff ...

Haha

we've just got on the train going to some random station in balaton that we could supposedly get on a train to zagreb from. that travelling day was such a nightmare. we were supposed to arrive in zagreb at like 4pm to meet Gunes at the bus station who was coming from Turkey that day but we didn't end up getting to the youth hostel till 1:30am in the middle of the night! Firstly, we needed to get a boat from the town we'd been camping in but the water in the lake was apparently too choppy (?) and they'd cancelled all ferries so we had to get 2 trains and nearly ended up missing one because the platform was situated in a stupid place ... anyway, after we got to the station we were supposed to get to zagreb from, they tell us u cant buy international tickets from there (sTUPID!!) so we were gona have to run off the train when it got to a bigger station, buy the tickets and get bk on before the train left again (we were all told this in german btw, translated by Gruff who was the only one who could say anything other than ich viste nich but still he only had GCSE) ... then the train got delayed like 5hours and there was no food in this bloody station apart from 'pizza' which turned out to be bitesized puffpastries filled with tomato-flavoured paste. yum....









this is in trogir (croatia) when we arrived, also pretty late (11pm?) but followed the music and got to hear this amazing croatian band with local youths. as the policeman told me the lead singer 'plays music with much love'. we took it in turns to go in the crowd and sing along to their catchy lyrics of 'why, why, we must die? every day and every night ...' or something ...





haha ... this is the moon crater. "...if you like ....". When we finally got to 'camping rozac' - note that and never visit it - after getting lost up a hill in the black of the night, this is what we were offered to camp on. luckily we asked whether there was anything else and we managed to find something a bit less rocky ... that night ri, ralph, gunes and me had a hilarious time in the big tent playing spin the bottle (but with slapping+hitting instead of kissing) and 'eat, sleep or marry' and then we just started doing direct comparisons until the early hours of the morning when some random german yelled "GUYS!! PLEASE, ITS 5am, I NEED SLEEP" ... ooops ...


ok i'll add some more tomorrow i'm getting bored of doing this now

xxx