The Croatian holiday!
Dobar dan!!
Well I’ve been back in France now for 4 days, so I thought Id better let you in on what I got up to in Croatia!
I arrived in Zagreb, which is bout half hour from where my family lives and where I was born in Ivanic-Grad. The weather was stunning and HOT the whole time! which was a nice change since Canada was a flop!
Basically most of my days were spent at either grandparents houses. There was no chicken plucking this year, just picking of fruit like cherries and some other berry that I dont know the name of on english!.. anyway it was wicked!
I even got an invite to a wedding, went with my grandparents and had a blast!!My grandma and i were pretty excited as we got to dress up, and she said as it was such a special occasion she was even going to keep her teeth in during dinner!!! hahaha…. Its was so cool to see how its done over there,(pretty much like the movie “my big fat Greek wedding) basically it was a party the started Saturday morning and when we were leaving at 2.30am Sunday they were only just starting to bring out more food!! The ceremony was in an old church in one part of Zagreb, then after the ceremony everyone got into a convoy and drove right through Zagreb beeping, waving the croatian flag, and running red lights!! It was pretty cool! Once we got to the reception there was bout 15 different home made cakes and biscuits and of course I had to taste every single one !!! yuumm!!!! The music was typical Croatian style and everyone was dancing, my grandma asked if I was keen for a boogie and I was yeah sure why not thinking she’d just be stepping side to side …. hell no….. the old bird was bopping, shaking and swinging those hips and arms!! I was in shock.. had to try keep up!!! hehe… anyway was wicked night!!
Then it was time to travel to the Stunning Croatian coast and soak up the sun for 3 days!!I was lucky enough to know my moms friend on and Island called Vir, she has built a house there with her husband and rents out rooms!So anyway, I got on the bus and 5.5 hrs later I was swimming in the sea which was 25 degrees!!!!! I could not believe how clear, warm and untouched this place was!! and what the hell had I been thinking all those visits to Croatia in the past and not going to the coast! I remember it when I was younger as we had a batch in Pirovac, and that was always good times but since we left Croatia in 1990 I hadnt been back!! From now on I will go at every opportunity!! And if anyone else is thinking of going I say go for it!! you wont regret it!!! Anyhow I spent basically all day lying by the water or swimming! It was mint! only heading home for lunch which was on the table waiting!! (thanks Nada) 
Saturday rolled round and it was time for me to head back to Ivanic to spend couple more days catching up with relatives and my younger cousins from South Africa that I hadn’t seen since they were 1 &3 years old! now they were 15 and 17, it was pretty wicked, and they were cool… We ended up at some random concert in town .. had no idea who the guy was but EVERYONE else did and were singing and jumping round so after a few beers I got right into it!! Had a mint night!!!
Anyway, like i said I’m back in France and back to training…. doing a local club race on Sunday so hoping to have a good safe one!!
If anyone’s interested I have a bebo site now too….. which has some randoms photos on it if anyone wants to have a looksie!!! As this thing takes forever to load up pics on here…. grrrrrr
www.bebo.com/marinaduvnjak or http://marinaduvnjak.bebo.com
Righto I’m off to train thats all for now!
Marina
