Here are some pictures from our trip to Croatia in August of 2005. To get there, we spent 18 hours packed in a bus, which is an experience I don't need to repeat. But Croatia itself is a beautiful place with blue sea on one side and majestic mountains on the other. It's very difficult to take a bad picture in Croatia - just hold up the camera at random and click and you'll get at least a decent picture. We stayed in an apartment in the village of Igrane, in an area called the Makarska Riviera. Our big excursions were a boat trip to the island of Korcula, a rafting trip on the Cetina River, an evening in Makarska and a day in Dubrovnik.

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The island Hvar from Igrane	The local water polo team practising	On the waterfront	Our apartment

Enjoying my pasta our first evening	Lenka enjoying her pizza	The marina in Igrane	Lenka theiving pomegranates

The Biokovo Mountains, facing inland	A church in the next village, Drasnice	At the church	Idylls of the Sea

Sunset on the Adriatic	The bell tower	A wayside chapel	Landmarks of Igrane

Sunset	Moonrise over the Mediterranean	The bell tower at night	Sunset

Watching the sunset	Lenka in a reflective mood	A paraglider, towed by fast motorboat	At Makarska

At Makarska	St. Peter's lighthouse	St. Mark's church, Makarska	St. Mark's

Makarska harbour	Makarska harbour	On the boat returning to Igrane	The Cetina River, where we went rafting

Ready for rafting	A fig tree	An olive tree	An almond tree

An approaching storm	Dubrovnik (& following pictures)	Guard at the main gate	Guarding the City

St. Ivan's Gate	St. Blasius, Dubrovnik's patron saint	Map showing damage to the city in the civil war	The Church of the Assumption of the Virgin

The bell tower & clock The round thing below the clock shows phases of the moon	The moat, now a botanical garden	Convent of St. Claire and water reservoir	A craftworker at work with her goods for sale

The Sponza Palace, now the city archive	Bacinska Lake