1st Holiday of 2025

June 2025

A 11-day adventure by Keith & Jayne Read more

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Croatia

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Beach, Couple, Vacation

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- Day 9
- Saturday, June 14, 2025 at 11:10 AM
- ☀️ 29 °C
- Altitude: 7 m
- Croatia Miljevac 43.492648, 16.53754843°29’34” N 16°32’15” E
No Split for Omis
June 14 in Croatia ⋅ ☀️ 29 °C
As the cruise ships 🚢 queued to dock at Split Harbour, we decided to catch a bus 🚌 in opposite direction and headed for Omis; a thousand years old town once ruled by pirates ☠️. Overlooking the sea entry into Omis is the Mirabella or Peovica a Romanesque fortress, built in the 13th century by the Kačić family. Mirabella was a reliable hideout for the Omiš pirates who used to retreat into the safety of the Cetina gorge. Legend says that in 1537, during an attack by the Turks, the defenders of Omiš confused the attackers with their shouting and shots so much that the Turks overestimated the number of defenders and fled. The climb to the top of the fortress is definitely worthwhile for the fabulous view. On coming back down, we explored a little more and stopped; for longer than we should, at a little bar full of locals with seating outside on the narrow passageway, which had a lovely cool breeze blowing through. 🍺🍺🍺
We arrived back at the hotel 🏨 just in time to catch the sunset 🌇.Read more
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- Day 10
- Sunday, June 15, 2025 at 10:41 AM
- ☀️ 28 °C
- Altitude: 17 m
- Croatia Miljevac 43.492586, 16.53879743°29’33” N 16°32’20” E
Final Time by the Pool
June 15 in Croatia ⋅ ☀️ 28 °C
Woke up to our last full day and another lazy breakfast before taking a coffee ☕️ down to the pool area.
All of a sudden, there was action as the pool attendants and towel counters; who always asked for your room number when taking a towel but not when returning it. We could be charged for a suitcase full of towels when we get home 🏡. I digress, the action going on was for the laying out multiple sunbeds, it looks 👀 as though the pool area is going to get busy!! It's was thirsty work watching 👀 these guys man-handling 👬 sunbeds, parasols, and the heavy concrete blocks, so I felt in need of a beer 🍺........ well, it is Father's Day 👩‍🍼 🤣.
Mid afternoon we decided to take refuge on our balcony with a cup of coffee ☕️ before starting the unenviable task of trying to fit everything that we had neatly packed just 10 days ago back into our suitcases 🎒 🎒. Mission 95% accomplished we headed back down to the pool for the last couple of hours before returning once again to our room with a takeaway pizza 🍕 and beer 🍺 to watch our final Croatian 🇭🇷 sunset 🌇, before setting our alarms ⏰️ for the 1st time in 10 days ready for our early ish start in the morning.Read more
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- Day 11
- Monday, June 16, 2025 at 7:51 AM
- ☀️ 25 °C
- Altitude: 11 m
- Croatia Miljevac 43.492666, 16.53800943°29’34” N 16°32’17” E
Going Home 🏡
June 16 in Croatia ⋅ ☀️ 25 °C
Awake before our alarms ⏰️ this morning, cases 100% packed, hotel 🏨 bill paid and down for breakfast at the most sought after table on the terrace; for the 1st time and on our last time!!
With a coffee ☕️ to go, we were at the pick point at the front of the hotel in plenty of time. And checking in at the airport about an hour later after driving through the hillsides narrow roads and hairpin bends to arrive about a mile down the road to get ahead of the queue of traffic that has been there constantly during our stay.
After a coffee ☕️ at the airport and joined by another couple from our hotel who came from Stoke, we started chatting, and the wife's work life pretty much mirrored Jayne's nursing career. We took off 🛫 some 25 minutes late, and for some passengers, it would be a flight to remember as they ran out of food for this return journey, apart from chips 🍟
Arriving at Manchester Airport 🛬 it was the busiest we had ever seen it. Firstly the plane couldn't park at the gate in Terminal 2 so we had to wait for a bus. We then had to join the queue to get into the queue for immigration and passport control. All this, though, did mean our cases 🎒 🎒 were merrily going around on the carousel in the baggage reclaim area. After which we went to meet our taxi 🚕 driver, Jordan, for our ride back home 🏡.Read more
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No Split for Omis

Final Time by the Pool

Going Home 🏡