“St. Tropez of the East”
I am on an Internet cafe timer in Dubrovnik, so I shall keep this brief. My impressions of Dalmatia are as follows:
- Split is beautiful and old. Dubrovnik is even more beautiful. Clear blue water framed by mountains, etc, etc. Trouble is that beauty doesn’t have a huge effect on me. It’s there; that’s all. I think that I am going through large scale withdrawal from urbanity, or getting bored with the local food.
- Split is the L.A. of Croatia. There aren’t enough jobs to go around there, but the youth fritter their afternoons away wearing stylish clothes and save up for new cars. But beneath the surface, they live at home with their parents, eat black bread for dinner, and even though they hang out at trendy bars and cafes, they make one beer last for hours. As one of our bar waiters in Split explained, he goes to Zagreb where the people are more real (he indicated this by repeatedly pointing at his head).
- One knows how fortunate one is in the States when one begins to chaff from rough European toilet paper.
- I can see why this is one of the best places in the world to sail.
david bang
September 11, 2004 @ 8:00 am
Despite your entry, it sounds to me like you are having a good time. Lucky you…
ToastyKen
September 13, 2004 @ 2:18 pm
I bought a ton of Kleenex Cottonelle, but I never get to use it because I almost always go to the bathroom at work. 🙁 😛