Germany, for all their technological, musical, and environmental superiority, sure have a funky university schedule. There's a national holiday canceling school literally more Thursdays than not, and due my program's Berlin excursion and Pentacostal Break being next to each other, I just got done with over two weeks of vacation! For Pentacost, my friend Katie Australia and I did blind booking to Croatia. Germanwings.com is this great site where you pick a broad topic (we chose beaches, which had ~15 possible cities) and pick your travel dates, and they will book you a flight for a random city! You pay for your ticket and THEN find out where you're going. We got Rijeka, immediately googled where the heck that was, found out it was Croatia, and jumped up and down in excitement for a solid five minutes! :]
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| Our hostel room for the week. We were the only two in a five bed room, so nice! |
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| In front of the National Theater. Katie and I were eating lunch in this courtyard and I mentioned that this building looked similar to the Opera House I went to in Prague in February. Katie then read our free Rijeka guide's info section on the Theater and it specifically mentioned that those two buildings were designed by the same guy!! |
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| Apartment buildings |
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| Cool frames in the free Rijeka maritime history museum that was entirely in Croatian and Italian. Katie and I... looked at the pictures. :] |
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| It had to be done. |
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| I couldn't accept the stairs into a wall at the Museum of Contemporary Art |
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| We're getting meta now. |
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| An amazing outdoor market place that puts the Farmer's Market to shame! There was an entire building just for all the fresh seafood. It smelled insane. |
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| The first torpedo was launched in Rijeka, Croatia. |
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| Random cool arty entrance way to a glass bridge. |
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| Picturesque |
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| So many cute boats! My new life dream is to live on a house boat in Amsterdam. |
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| OUR BEACH <3 |
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| View to the left |
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| And view to the right. Cool looking ruin things |
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| Never wanted to leave |
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| This rock was ergonomic! |
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| Katie bought metallic nail polish. I need some! |
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| I could do this every day for forever, yeah. |
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| Our grotto |
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| Cold, but worth it! I went swimming nearly every day. I conquered you, Adriatic Sea. |
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| Cute tug boat |
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| The city center at night |
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| Oh, Rijeka Airport. You look like a motel from the 70s. Everyone basically gets their own balcony XD |
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| I will, one day, go back to Croatia for a vacation. There's so much more to explore! |
hey:) I saw you writing into your blog when I sat next to you in starbucks in bonn today :) I was the gotl who ate the carrot cake :) Maybe you remember me ;)
ReplyDeletehii! :] ja, ich erinnere mich an dich. ich soll dieses Blog merh oft aktualisieren, aber ich kann gar nichts machen in meinem Zimmer, also deswegen ich in Starbucks war! haha.
Deletesorry I meant the girl who...
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