"MATTRES" VACANTION - DOES IT WORTH IT?
We were in Croatia three years ago and that time we tried different excursions, so we saw all important places of this beautifull country. This time, after a hard year of working and studying we decided to make "mattres" vacation. Now i'm in Croatia, in Makarska. It's a beautiful city on the Adriatic sea. I can't say, that current style of recreation is extremal or active... It is more like "doing nothin' " holyday. And what I want to say: it is good, when short, but after one and a half week I want to work, run, jump and so on. Yes, it is a very good vacantion - not very hot, not very cold, a bit windy, water is pure and feshing... But after three days you have a good sunburn ( like a pornactor), you swam so much, that you could cross English channel, first three days you eat a lot, but then you understand, that you become fat ( it means, that you have to cross English channel backwards). After a week you want to hear city noize and smell it's dust.
As for short rest such style is perfect (prepare to sleep and read a lot), but as for a long trip it's a bit boring (thanks to that fact I have pocket reader, I can read everything I want.
some tips: 1) If you want to change money, don't be fast at it. Change course varies from bank to bank. For example; in one bank course could be 1USD: 4.85Kuna, in other - 5.05 kuna. It is really so! I'm not joking!!!
2)Buy everything in the supermarkets! Example: Coke price in market - 5-6 kuna, in local shop - 12 kuna max.
Beer is pricey as hell in restaurants, but in market Stella artois 0,5 costs same as in Kiev.
3)Buy special shoes for wearing them in the water - there're hedgehogs under water and they could be poisonous
4)best plan for "mattres" vacation: You wake up early (7-8 o'clock if there're no russians and 5-6 if there are, because they occupy all places near pool and on the beach probably at night), then you go eating, then you can go and swim in the sea a little but this way you won't have sunburn - it's is ok to Croatia because there are trees on the beach and you'll be in their shade. So you can occupy a place near pool and go swimming in the sea, then return. After that you'll be tired and sleepy, so go and sleep ( I'is too hot to go somewhere else). In the evening you go eating (depends on your prefference), or, what is better, you can go and swim in the sea in the sunset (it's very beautiful here), or go in the bar (there're hundreds here) and drink something.
5) If you know English, use it. Local language is from slavic group, so you can read it easy, but local people speak so fast, that you can't understand anything! So don't try to speak russian. it's better to speak English (the're hundreds of tourists speaking english). That way you won't be confused but they will )=-)