Och feßten fortsätter!

... born in the USA...

Cia and Nalle married!

... here they are! Now, party, party... -w-

Last days in Vienna

Hjellou,

We have now spent a few days in Vienna, which was nice. Yesterday we saw the Spanish horses morning exercise, 2,5h of horses walking around. Well, Nanna got what she wanted :) The most entertaining for me was when some sidekicks went gathering horse shit when it appeared on the training court :)

Then we also saw Schönbrunn garden and the Technische museum. Gosh, the museum was huge.
The final sight was the "Riesenrad", kind of a Ferry wheel with "train carts". The view was amazing, even in the evening. One round took about 13 minutes and 40 seconds.

After all these sights and a long day, we went back to Rikus flat and made some dinner for us :)

Today we went for a little bit shopping... but not that much.

Now we are packing and resting before we go to the airport. We heard that there are for sure traffic jams and rush hours everywhere...

ETA to Finland is about midnight...

We will upload some pictures later, when we have a PC (currently using a mac :) ).

Br,
-w-

Good bye Osijek, here we come Zagreb and here we are Vienna

Hi all,

It has been a while since we updated the blog. Since we left Osijek on Tuesday, we have done speed touristing in Zagreb. In fact we met Vedran in Zagreb who showed us the city and later on we had dinner with. Zagreb was quite nice city where you could easily spend more time in than a day.

Instructions for pedestrians in Osijek.

Osijek bus station.

Nanna and Manuela just before we entered the bus. Thanks for an unforgettable time in Osijek!

Vedran is showing how the GPS function works on the mobile phone. :) (Zagreb)

In front of a very nice church.

A view from the tower in old town. From this tower a cannon is fired every noon.

Walter is admiring the views of Zagreb.

Today on Wednesday we arrived to Vienna at noon. The bus ride took us almost 6 hours, passing Slovenia. After some subway riding we met Riku, who promised to lend his couch for a few nights. After a wiener schnitzel we headed to the apartment. Now we got a little bit spoiled when we found out how nice and cozy his apartment is :)

Riku had prepared some linen with chocolate :)

Nanna was very happy when she found her favourite lemon youghurt. It reminded her from the times she was in Hungary.

We prepared a dinner with bubbling wine, yummy.

Some relaxing with Mac, reading mail and feicbooking....

Tomorrow we are going to see the rehearsals of the Spanish horses (tjsp), visit the technical museum and to go to the "castle-which-name-i-always-forget". After that we are going to make some sight seeing to other places...

Br,
Walter

Perfect weekend in Osijek

After a rough night in the bus from Zadar to Osijek (~9 hours), Manuela was meeting us at the bus station. We went to the hostel to eat breakfast together, and after that we took a few hours sleep.

Later in the afternoon we went walking in Osijek to see the city and talked about almost everything.

Here is the church near the main square.

Later we walked along the river Drava and ended up visiting a zoo! That was realy nice to make some neew friends and too see the monkeys...

Walter is connecting with the ostrich.

Esso!

These dudes were realy nice. So laid back animals :)

Nanna and Manuela on the pedestrian bridge.

On Sunday we had the opportunity to meet up with Manuelas friends Martina and Silvio (Married). The took us on a trip to the country side to look at summer cottage and to eat some traditional fish soup with home made pasta. The day was realy great, thanks!

Manuela, Martina, Silvio and Nanna by a statue in memory of the second world war. Behind is the river Danube. From this point we could see Hungary and Serbija, acctually the opposite shore in the picture is Serbia.

This is an entrance to a wine cellar...

... where I had an opportunity to taste home made Plum Rakija.

Our fish soup was cooked in a pot over fire. It was fish in a spicy sauce with paprika.

Adventurers enjoying their meal. Manuela got stung on her middle finger by a wasp, I hope it is better...

Most of the people dont know the fact that mines are scattered all over former Yougoslavia. In Osijek there are areas marked with this warning signs for mines. They are currently disarming mines all the time and every now and then the explosions can be heard to the city. Also people still get killed by these mines...

A geese patrol guarding their pond... *twist your head*

It looked that 3 geese's= one brain. :)

Well, tomorrow we are going to buy our tickets to Zagreb and do some other arrangments.

Br,
Walter

Biking in Pag

Friday activities. Pag is an island about ~1 hours north of Zadar. The island is known for it nature (no trees), moon alike landscape. And for its salt production, sheep, cheese and sheep meat. We had thw whole day time to look around in Pag (Our bus to Osijek deprted at 23:00), so we rented ourself two bikes. The result was a trip of about ~30 km, ~5 hours of up and down hills.

The views were very stunning and beautiful.

Reading map. How to get lost in an island with one main road and ~1 smaller road...

Pag town seen from above. After this picture was taken we had over 2 km of downhill, nice.

The water was cold and really salty, at least it felt so. Nanna was brave enough to take a swim.

Two aunties doing some laze work and gossiping. (Pag is also known for its laze).

Finally, the cheese. I found 30 kuna on the road so I had this opportunity to taste the cheese :)

Overall the island was very nice, we can recommend it to everyone. If you rent a bike, take first the coast road and then other routes. By this you avoid biking the steep 2km uphill...

Br,
-w-

National Park Plitvice Lakes

On thursday we took a day trip to a national park halfway to Zagreb, Plitvice Lakes. It was really nice and beautiful although there were A LOT of tourists. There were several different routes that you could choose from, divided into duration. We had limited time so we chose a ~4 hour route. We just blended in to the other tourists, mostly germans. The national park had boat and bus transportation, so we did first boat, then a walk and then a bus transport to the starting point.

The water was turquoise and very clear. Ducks and fish lived side by side :)

The lakes were all in different levels so there were a lot of waterfalls between them.

Croatia's highest waterfall, 78 meters.

A view to the valley. The paths were so crowded that I cant understand why no one fell into the water. You could not get peace for yourself anywhere, but it was worth the experience :)

The buss stopped at a restaurant which had some animals in the backyard. Two bears and one baby bear :) According to our local resources they are animals that have lost their parents in a traffic accident.

Bambi eating vegetables.

Br,
-w-

Split and Zadar pictures

Finally a computer with possibility to add pictures :)

So, we spent 1 day in Split before continuing to Zadar. We checked the old fortress "Halls"... but then it seemed that Split is more of a nightlife place.

A house in the old town of Split.

The beach boulevard in Split.

Zadar was nicer. There were not that much tourists compared to Split (but anyway every second car was from abroad...). Our hostell was a little bit outside the city center, but near the beach and some restaurants. It was ok for the price we paid...

Zadar beach boulevard

Some old houses and a tower in the old city (Zadar)

These asre the 49ers. If you take a closer look "Arcada" is sponosring one of them. I wonder if the crew are swedish speaking finns...


My yacht also arrived to Zadar without telling me. "Agram" is nice for small trips in Adriatic sea. Some technical information about "Agram".


Also we bumped into "Jo" couple of times. Unfortunately I had rented it to some celebrities :)

I will add later some pictures from National Park Liptvice lakes, Pag and Osijek...

Br,
-w-

Zadar

Hi again,

Today we have arrived to Zadar, ~3 hours north from Split. The sun is shining and people crowd the beach. And we also pumped into some kind of 49ers European championship competition with 3 boats from Finland.

We have planned the activities here, today was beach and city-day, tomorrow is the National park Plitvice Lakes and on Friday we check an island called Pag. After Pag our journey continues to Osijek to meet Manuela, Nannas friend.

Br,
Walter

Burning in Korcula

We had a swimming day yesterday(Monday) in Korcula. The sun was shining and the water was warm and clear. We had the opportunity to lend our landlords snorkel, so I did some dives :) Unfortunately you could see some litter in the sea bottom...

This is not an "enögd cycklop-säl", it is me catching some fish.

Some feet.

Nanna is adoring the view.

It took us about 20 minutes to walk to the city. This was the view we had all the time :)

I am pretty sure that some hidden door should open if I push this "button"...

I finally got myself some mussels.

Korcula as an island is very beatiful and nice. We would gladly have stayed a few days longer here but... We also noticed that this town is filled with tourists --> prices are very high, even at the groucery store...

Today we took the catamaran from Korcula to Split. Here we are going to stay one night before we travel on to Zadar.

Br,
-w-
-n-

p.s. I burned my back... darn. d.s.

Via Mostar to Korcula

Mostar is a nice place to stay for a day or to, we prefered a day. During this time we saw the old town which had a pitoresque bridge. The old town was many centuries old, it has also a Mosk that belonged to the Turkish Pasha and we also got the chance to climb up the minaret. The stairs were narrow but the sight was very pretty.

This morning we departured to Korcula, Croatia. The train took us near Plocé port. We had to take ferry to Trapanji, taxi to Orebic and finaly a small boat to Korcula. Here are alot of tourists, you can see it from the plates of the cars, germans, italians, polish... etc. We didnt have any accomondation booked so we counted on some offers at our arrival to Korcula. We found a private room nearby (20 min walk) for about 25euros/night, half the price of a hostel. We decided to stay two nights, this is as much as our schedule can do.

Up on the Minaret (Mostar).

Inside the Mosk.

... the same Mosk from the bridge.

The famous Stari Most bridge during night.

A beautiful old building that had been destroyed by bombs during the latest war.

We later heard that Mostar is acctually divided into two halves, one croatian and one Bosnian muslim part. By our understanding these two don´t get along so good when there is local football matches between these two parts of city...

Our view from the balcony of our room in Korcula.

Br,
-w-
-n-