Tucepi (tu-che-pi)
On Sunday we went to Tucepi, which is a lovely city stretched along the Croatian coast. We had to wake up at 4:00 am to catch the 5:00 am bus. I set my alarm wrong, but luckily Muharum woke up around then and woke me up as well. The bus ride was long and warm. One girl joked with everyone the whole way there, it was quite annoying. Amanda and I had to sit alone at the back of the bus where she threatened to throw up due to the less than ideal road conditions. I must say that I've hardly seen as beautiful a site as some of the highlands we saw, just as a Fog had settled over them and the sun was almost ready to come above the horizon. Rolling grassy heath went on for kilometres and faded in to mountains. I wanted so desperately to stop the bus and take a million photos, but it was not to be.
The coast was all stony, but it went on forever, with shops all along the boardwalk. The water was great, and I'm almost getting used to salt water, though I miss delicious lake Clearwater. I really wanted to find a cool pair of sunglasses. Word of warning, knock-off goods appear all over the place, if you come to Bosnia/Croatia, unless you're in a major city, you're not likely to find real things. That was fine with me, as I'm a miser. I just offer it as a warning. Nevertheless, i didn't find any glasses, I knew I should have gotten that pair of Armani's in Dubrovnik.
We took the bus to get there. The local bus company sold round trip tickets to the townsfolk, the tickets justifiably went quickly. They only cost 15KM round trip, which is a steal! That's just over 10 CAD. The trip was 4.5 hours each way. Even though it's a bit of time to get there, I had the feeling that anyone could have gone if they had wanted to. 15 marks isn't that much money, it was cool to do something fun that was accessible to the people here. I wish I had taken more photos, but the batteries I was using didn't have enough power output, so the camera just froze before taking a shot and shut down. Now I'm using near dead alkalines that work fine, I wish I knew... 
The coast was all stony, but it went on forever, with shops all along the boardwalk. The water was great, and I'm almost getting used to salt water, though I miss delicious lake Clearwater. I really wanted to find a cool pair of sunglasses. Word of warning, knock-off goods appear all over the place, if you come to Bosnia/Croatia, unless you're in a major city, you're not likely to find real things. That was fine with me, as I'm a miser. I just offer it as a warning. Nevertheless, i didn't find any glasses, I knew I should have gotten that pair of Armani's in Dubrovnik.
We took the bus to get there. The local bus company sold round trip tickets to the townsfolk, the tickets justifiably went quickly. They only cost 15KM round trip, which is a steal! That's just over 10 CAD. The trip was 4.5 hours each way. Even though it's a bit of time to get there, I had the feeling that anyone could have gone if they had wanted to. 15 marks isn't that much money, it was cool to do something fun that was accessible to the people here. I wish I had taken more photos, but the batteries I was using didn't have enough power output, so the camera just froze before taking a shot and shut down. Now I'm using near dead alkalines that work fine, I wish I knew...
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5:14 p.m.
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