just back from a fab holiday in croatia. our usual family holiday is beach, sun and surf. but at some point last year we said we would do something different. after a few searches on the internet and a few conversations we decided to book into an activity holiday in croatia via hidden croatia. we usually do two weeks but because of other things we wanted something a bit shorter and this enabled us to splash out a bit more…

it was a full on week with kayaking and rafting down a few of croatia’s magnificent rivers, cycling (50k with a few big climbs), and visiting plitvice lakes which is a stunning national park. we stayed nearby in korana village in rooms in a croatian family’s home. 5 other families were on the same week as us. our itinery roughly is on huck finns site – they are the company who provided the guides for the week. it was a totally different kind of holiday. i was in croatia last shortly after the war running a holiday club for young people – though that time i was on the coast. croatia is a beautiful country – i’m sure it won’t be our last visit (i’m actually headed back in april/may next year to take part in a conference for young leaders).

of course i took lots of photos – for the first time i filled my card. i have distilled them down to about 60 and put them in a set on flickr of course. i have left in several of people jumping off rocks and things as they will probably be interested to see themselves (in case you were wondering why i hadn’t edited those down a bit more). the shot here is joel jumping over a waterfall that we also kayaked down!

we were so busy that we didn’t see a newspaper, tv, radio, or internet and the laptop stayed at home. i did manage to read one book – blink (by the guy that wrote the tipping point) which is brilliant and i’ll no doubt blog about at some point. it’s actually kind of weird to be back blogging…