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When the wife first suggested taking a week off and heading down to Croatia for some fun in the sun, I have to admit, fun in the sun isn’t exactly the first image that comes to mind when I think Croatia.  I’ll fully admit that the whole Bosnia/Herzegovina/Serbia thing went relatively unnoticed by me, but I knew Croatia is somewhere in the neighborhood.  Ok, granted the whole thing came to an end by 1995, but I hadn’t really thought about Croatia since.

After spending a sun filled week on the island of Hvar off the coast of Croatia, near Split, all I can say is if there was a war raging there a 13 years ago, you’d never know it now.  The people, the food, the beaches, everything was just about as close to perfect as you’d want it to be.

We started our journey from Vienna to Split at around 6:30am.  Driving south from Vienna to the Slovenian border was a piece of cake.  Once in Slovenia, things started to get interesting.  It seems as though the Slovenians aren’t exactly building highways at the same rapid pace the Croatians are.  Needless to say, we had to follow some two lane roads the headed through the countryside.  All I can say is, the people that live along those roads must absolutely hate the summer and relish the winter, as every second car has a German, Austrian, Czech, or Polish license plate.  While the Slovenia countryside looks a whole lot like the southern Austrian countryside, once we hit the Croatian border, we were back on track (read: highway) and movin’ right along.

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