After a long drive through the border, we made it to Croatia! The city we stayed in was Pula, known for it's Roman arena.
Our hostel looked like the dogs bollocks online and was super central, but after getting lost (what's new) and being escorted to 'reception' by a group of creepy men (which was actually, said creepy mens bedroom), we made a swift exit to our room avoiding the 30 something other European men on the floor below.
I can't say I'm the most organised person and when visiting a new location I like to get my bearings then plan the days ahead once I've arrived, rather than in advance.
The main town is quite small and mostly packed with restaurants, cafe's and souvenir shops. There are day trips to Islands you can arrange, but we didn't have time and fancied having a chilled few days eating and sunbathing to end our trip.
Although everyone staying in our hostel at the time was a bit pervy, the decor was so shabby chić and cute!
There had been a film festival taking place in the arena over the last few days. Luckily we arrived on the final day, so we're able to catch the last midnight viewing under the stars. You have to get there super early to get yourself a seat with a good view and have time to queue for a snack.
Our early was not early enough, so we squeezed in a little spot at the very back to watch the first film. Only problem was the film was in Croatian with English subtitles - which would have been fine if the subtitles weren't showing right at the bottom of the screen, behind everyones heads. Still have no clue what that film was about.
Luckily, as it was quite late everyone disappeared after the first film. I grabbed us a spot right in the centre while Holly took popcorn duty. We had the perfect spot and the film was in english! Who wouldn't want to watch ghost busters at 1am in the middle of Croatia, wrapped in your borrowed hostel duvet?
There are a few different beaches in Pula, however they don't all tend to be sand or pebble, occasionally they're made of concrete terraces or rock where you have to ease yourself into the sea.
The first beach we went to was in Valkane which was like this. We weren't a fan of the concrete beach, so we set ourselves up on the rocky side, a small climb from the cocktail bar. We found a spot where the sea had eroded the rock into seat (throne) shaped coves where we could read our books and chill like royals.
The view from our room, looking out at the 'Lighting Giants'.
If you ever find yourself in Pula for a small amount of time, I'd recommend taking a trip to the Verudella beach over Valkane, which is where these photos were taken the next day.
There's a restaurant that over looks the beach that sells amazing frozen cocktails and food, so you don't have to go too far in your flip flops. We went back there for dinner in the evening, it had the best view to watch the sun set.
We of course had to rent a pedalo because you can't go to the beach without taking trip on one.
We pedaled up the coast and unexpectedly stumbled across a nudest each full of old men, with their wangs out. It was quite wavy by the rocks and they'd constantly pull you closer to the edge, so we definitely got more an eye full - I've been put of prunes for life.
We had an early light the next day after an amazing chilled few days in Croatia.
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