Croatian tv programming I have to say is rather odd! Last night we were watching the Patriot and 2 things rather annoyed us! The first was the super long ad breaks! They just kept going on and on and on!!! Didn’t time them but let’s just say in one ad break I managed to have a shower and the show still hadn’t resumed yet! The second thing that annoyed us was how they broke the movie into 2 parts! Halfway through the movie, another show - Croatia’s Top Model - was shown! We had to wait until almost midnight to watch the second half of The Patriot! Hmmph!
Anyhow, cos of that today was a rest day! Slept in until around 9am when we had to get up to catch the end of breakky downstairs. The buffet breakfast was pretty good! There were croissants, bread with cheese and ham, sausages, omelettes, bacon, and yoghurt! We ate as much as we could in the hope of being full enough to skip lunch!
After breakky, Di was still tired so she went back to sleep whilst I flicked through our honeymoon photos selecting ones I’ll post up on the blog when we get good internet connection. Di slept till around 1pm and we called home before deciding to go out!
The weather wasn’t crash hot! There was a blistering wind and clouds overhead but we set out anyway. We walked around Novalja’s bay and around the head towards Strasko beach. Along the way we met Goran and Chris who had just done the walk. They warned us about the strong winds but that still didn’t fully prepare us for what we encountered around the corner! Away from the protection of the bay, the winds along the beach were gale force!!! I seriously thought a hurricane was coming or something! We could just about lean into the wind and it actually took effort to walk forwards against it! We continued along the beach, which wasn’t terribly impressive but maybe that was just because of the bad weather.
We found a path inland and took it to get away from the wind! We continued along the path and found a main road but later realised we had taken the long way back to town! Anyhow, it was a nice walk and we got to see the residential areas of town.
Back in town we checked out behind the main street but there wasn’t much. There was a sign pointing to the town ‘centar’ and that gave us hope that there might be a larger retail area nearby but we soon realised that the center of town was what we had already explored! As some rain drops began to fall, we quickly returned to our hotel around 5pm. We refreshed ourselves before dinner and I agreed to Di giving me a haircut! She cut it in the bathtub and spent almost an hour trimming my out of control hair! In the end it looked pretty good! It wasn’t super short but at least it was neater!
Dinner was in the hotel restaurant again. We were pleased to find a different menu on offer! We had roast pork with spaghetti Bolognese, penne, potato, and salad. Dessert was a fruit sponge cake. After dinner we went for a walk on the other side of the hotel, admiring the spectacular sunset over the bay! The skies were painted in wonderful hues of yellow, orange and red as we watched the glowing orange sun set!
Grabbed a gelato on the way back to the hotel and retired to our room to check out what else Croatian tv had to offer! Night!
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