Jill & Sal's Excellent Adventure!!: A bus to a train to a bus to a train to a taxi to a plane to a bus, and here we are in Split!!

Wow, what a LONG day of travel yesterday was. We woke up in Budapest at 4:45 a.m. to finish drying our clothes (gotta love not having dryers over here in Europe) -- this clothes drying situation was a story in and of itself. We thought having a washing machine would be a huge blessing, but with the clothes not air drying in over a day's time we were really stressing. Sal now says "when you don't have a dryer, air dry...when air drying fails, wear-dry!" This is our new method. You just wear your damp clothes until they dry! LOL Sal learned this from his experience of lifeguarding at the pool back in the day. His wet shirt always dried when worn. haha so that's what we did! What a long night it was before such an early wake up.

So at 5:30 a.m. in Budapest, we took the local bus to the train station, bought our train tickets then hopped on our train to Zagreb! We thought that would be it until taxi'ing to the airport, but nope! once again SURPRISE...this is no regular mode of transpo...The train stopped somewhere near the boarder of Hungary and Croatia, and we had about 30 mintues of passport checks completed before the train began to go backwards....Our inter-Croatia flight was scheduled to leave at 3 PM, and were were looking at arriving in the city of Zagreb some time after 2PM. Needless to say we were beginning to flip out a little, but we kept our cool...thanks to the help of a girl from Georgia (the country) who told us this route was normal. So after the train went backwards for a while, we all had to get off and jump on a bus. The only announcement was a little white haired man who came by our train car and said "corporate says train bus" - we were SO CONFUSED!! So the bus was going well until we got behind not one, not two, but three very slow tractors...also, at some random point a man flagged our bus driver down, and he pulled over and got out of the bus for a good 15 minutes. We were in the dark with no communication that entire time. hahaha

FINALLY we made it to the next train! Train trip continued....we got into Zagreb at about 2:05 PM, and our cab driver sped the whole way to the airport. Thank goodness we have prior experiences with insane NYC cabs -- this guy was really nice though, but oh my gosh what driving tactics he used!

We made it through security and all and wound up with a little extra time as the plane to Split was 15 minutes late. The flight was great, and then we took a local bus upon landing to the downtown area where we are staying.

We got accomodations in the Diocletian Palace (where many people stay) -- these are some of most intact Roman ruins in the world...we're in an old Roman palace!! It's just neat beyond words. Heading to the beach in a few and to grab some local delicacies, like pizza and ice cream hahaha

Enjoy the pics below! Much love, Jill and Sal

ps - our room is so perfect, except for one thing...crazy Brits down the hall who were up talking, shouting, singing from about 4-7 a.m. Tip for traveling...if you see 20-year-old men jumping on beds before you pay to stay somewhere, and they are going to be yoru hallway mates...perhaps stay somewhere else. We are SO tired after that day of travel and the crazy night of tomfoolery down the hall. haha Gotta keep on movin tho!