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