Central/Eastern European vacation

[dcg]

Originally Posted by globetrotter

and then you have the problem of 3 people means that if everyone disagrees you get into trying to convince somebody to go your way and then you have a majoirty.


Aside from overall logistics, this is my biggest concern. I know the cousin well enough, but he's a guy I see once a year tops - I don't have a good feel for what he'd want to get out of the trip or if we'd have similar interests.

In addition to the above, I don't want to get into a situation where either:

A. Someone else joins the trip, and all of a sudden he has a friend that wants to go, etc.

B. Someone else joins, likes the idea but they've always wanted to go to such and such a city, wants to change itinerary, etc.

I'm going to want to be constantly on the move, seeing as much as possible, and I don't want to be screwing around arguing about what to do next/waiting for people to finish showering/deciding where to eat dinner or what have you.

Maybe I should make this a solo trip.

 

[Simon Templar]

Plivice Lakes National Park in Croatia may also be worth a visit. Check it out.

I've been told to avoid Albania, Bulgaria, Romania, not because of the sights but because of possible issues with corrupt/unfriendly officials and higher chance of crime.

 

[globetrotter]

Originally Posted by Simon Templar

I've been told to avoid Albania, Bulgaria, Romania, not because of the sights but because of possible issues with corrupt/unfriendly officials and higher chance of crime.

I like each of those places

 

[dcg]

At the time I posted it, i was mostly joking about going solo. Since then I've actually given it consideration and am beginning to see some appeal to the idea. Any thoughts?

 

[Douglas]

Originally Posted by dcg

At the time I posted it, i was mostly joking about going solo. Since then I've actually given it consideration and am beginning to see some appeal to the idea. Any thoughts?

I went solo. It was great.

 

[per0]

Originally Posted by Michigan Planner

I can understand your trepidition about going to the Dalmation Coast too as I imagine it's difficult to drive to Dubrovnik from northern Croatia since it's pretty well separated - everywhere I went was either by boat or helicoptor, so I didn't have to worry about crossing from Croatia into Bosnia and Herzegovina and back into Dalmatia to get to Dubrovnik.

I'm from Croatia. It's not at all difficult to get from Zagreb to Dubrovnik by car. There's a new highway almost all the way. Zagreb-Split for instance now takes only 3 hours by car..

If you are going to Croatian coast and have a few weeks a good idea would be first to go see Istria (both coast and continental region) and then work your way down to Dubrovnik (through Rijeka, Zadar, Split).

 

[globetrotter]

Originally Posted by dcg

At the time I posted it, i was mostly joking about going solo. Since then I've actually given it consideration and am beginning to see some appeal to the idea. Any thoughts?

I'd do it. if you are single, in a lot of these places there is a pretty good chance you can get your pole greased, too.

 

[poly800rock]

Originally Posted by per0

I'm from Croatia. It's not at all difficult to get from Zagreb to Dubrovnik by car. There's a new highway almost all the way. Zagreb-Split for instance now takes only 3 hours by car..

If you are going to Croatian coast and have a few weeks a good idea would be first to go see Istria (both coast and continental region) and then work your way down to Dubrovnik (through Rijeka, Zadar, Split).

went to zagreb last year, it was amazing. even better was renting a car in zagreb and driving through slavonski brod into bosnia and going to sarejevo. DO NOT miss sarejevo, amazing city and people.