Valentinas Travels

  Summer has barely arrived before it's almost gone again. When the leaves slowly start to change colour, it's usually the perfect time to seek out some sun and warmth somewhere, before autumn arrives and days become shorter. We did the same - and spent five days exploring the Croatian coast . Here is a short photo report.  Road to nowhere?  Our journey began adventurously - namely with a somewhat scary display of our train in the direction of the airport. Would we ever get back from our trip? Or will we ever arrive at all?  Plitvice Nationalpark Yes, fortunately we arrived without any problems! After some hassle with the car hire company (who simply didn't turn up or answer the phone) and a stressful drive to our first destination (we pulled into the car park 5 minutes before our ticket expired!), we were able to enjoy our first stop: Plitvice National Park,  the oldest and probably most famous national park in Croatia, which has been on the UNESCO World Herita...

Podgorica (Montenegro) - Dubrovnik (Croatia) - Kotor (Montenegro) - Podgorica (Montenegro) Nice traditions have to be continued - like for example the one that my boyfriend and I started last year: Alternately, we organize surprise trips for each other, during which the other one only learns at the airport where we're going (to read about our last surprise trip to Sweden, click here: --> Link ) .  That's why I had no idea where the plane will bring me when we arrived at Zurich airport last week.  I had an approximate idea of the weather, but that was it. My boyfriend gave me a boarding pass  which had been modified in such a way that it didn't tell me anything either. Only some minutes before boarding, I found out the destination: For 6 days, we would explore Croatia and Montenegro !  We flew with Air Austria via Vienna to Podgorica , the capital of Montenegro.  There we picked up our rental car. The procedure took a long time, but then ...