Oh God, I've got so many things to write about!!! Let’s start with Croatia.
So, on Sunday I got on my nice night train (how do you call it, wagon lit?) and I was alone in a three bad compartment, and I found out sleeping on a bed on a train is wonderful, it’s the perfect thing for my travelling soul (can you say that? Well, I hope you know what I mean).
Got in Trieste on Monday morning, bus to Rijeka and I was finally there!!! I also saw Opatija from the bus and it looked wonderful. Met wonderful Jana and her parents (her dad is soooo funny and her mum so sweet) and her happy dog and evil cat. Then I met Eliza (she’s so nice!!! I am so happy I only met amazing people in the past days, and the most amazing of all is Jana of course) and we went, the three of us, in this little valley really near to the city, where the old mill was… AMAZING!!! You have this huuuuuge mill (five floors high) completely in ruin, next this cute little creek in the middle of the forest. We had a picnic on a rock just under the water falls (after that I was almost deaf for five minutes) and just went around the woods for hours and it was beautiful!!! We got home at like… 9? And then I was sooo tired (we did so many things I was actually so tired every night I would fall asleep in like three seconds).
On Tuesday we just went around Rijeka all day long. It’s such a cute town, with wonderful buildings, and it’s all a big mixture of Italian, Austro-Hungarian and German and I don’t know what else architecture. I am really sorry that I don’t know where my grandmother lived… Did I ever tell here that my Grandmother on my mum side was from Rijeka? So, it was nice because in some way it’s my “city of origin” or something, and when I saw old buildings I always thought “My grandmother must have been here… Who knows what she was doing?”. In the evening we met up with Dani (she’s so cute with her little nose, ah Jana? Actually, how do you say in Croatian? Janiza? How do you spell it?) and Eliza and went on the dock to drink. The dock is amazing, it’s really long and you have such a wonderful view from there, especially at night, with Rijeka on one side, and Opatija, and the islands… Wonderful. So, we got drunk on absinthe and some local wine mixed with Fanta (you’d think it would be disgusting but it was actually almost nice *lol*).
On Wednesday we went… Oh yes, to the fortress on the top of a hill, there is this wonderful little castle with some kind of little temple (like a Greek one in miniature) inside, so cute. There we met Luka, the music genius! A really nice guy, who found some “Speranza” around (namely, weed). Then we went to this wonderful café with DELICIOUS cakes (Jana had the chocolate one and I had the red fruits one, and they were so CHEAP, 10 kn which is like… 1,50 €!!!) and met Nataru (her name is actually Natalia but she’s a manga & anime fan so Jana calls her Nataru, which sounds so Japanese) who is SO cute and sounds so clever. We talked about music and languages and she’s really sweet. Then off to the docks again (just me and Jana) to smoke our weed… Mmh, I got so stoned. At one point I had to write a thing down because it was so funny; Jana said “you should give acid to babies to make them burp” and I was literally rolling on the floor laughing. Now I am not sure anymore, but I think that after that we just went home and fell asleep instantly.
On Thursday we got on a bus to Poreè, this wonderful little city on the sea in Istria. There we met Ivana who has the sweetest voice on this planet and is just so cute. We talked a lot (well, we basically talked a lot everyday, discussing things ranging from printer’s catridges to tampons to friendship to love to drugs to school, etc.) and got more stoned on the sea, which is, I have to say, the nicest thing to do… And we just walked around town and saw loads of cute things, and got these huge ice-creams from some crazy gipsy ice-cream guys (it’s just too funny to explain). We got back to Rijeka in the evening and went home and SLEPT because again we were dead.
On Friday we went into town quite late in the afternoon and then met with Eliza again and got drunk just under the lighthouse, beautiful.
Other random things I did: ate lots of Burek and Strudel (soooo good), drank lots of Macchiato, saw lots of nice cafés, read all the numbers of Colours Jana had (Colours is a wonderful magazine), got lots of Jrock from Jana so that I can become a rabid fangirl, bought loads of nice, cheap Croatian cigarettes (12 € a carton! Can you believe it!).
And then on Saturday morning Jana’s dad drove us to Trieste, where we bought some manga and then I came home. Yesterday I got on one car, three buses, one train and one plane, but I spent only 50 € in total, isn’t it amazing? Gotta love Ryanair and cheap flights to London!!!
So, I spent 5 days in Croatia meeting wonderful people and spending time with one of “my favourite people ever” (I’ll steal the sentence, Jana). I am so happy that we met because Jana really is an incredible person, she’s clever, cute, she reads way more than me (it’s the first time I meet someone who reads more than me, *lol*), she knows loads of things, she speaks perfectly three languages and is on her way to learn at least another three or four, she’s funny, and she likes to have fun too. I love you to bits darling. :*
And so, last night I got in London at around 9 o’clock and felt really tired. But then Sophie wanted to go to this rave in Stratford with this guy she met on Friday night (he is so cute!!! He seems really sweet and I have to say that when he took his t-shirt off I was seriously drooling *lol*). So I went out and well, three of his friends were there and… I really liked one of them, Tom, so it just happened. I know I am stupid because I am really hoping that this things works out, and I am here waiting for him to call me… But he really seemed to like me a lot and I think it could be something nice… I don’t know. It’s just confusing, to meet a random guy one night and just start falling for him but, at the same time, I really need it. All my other options have basically come to a dead end, and this could work, so why not? And I was so upset this morning when he decided not to come back; I mean, it’s normal because he had one of the windows in his car smashed and I live in King’s Cross (someone could have really well got into the car and stole it), but I was so very upset!!! I am such a girl. But he texted me this morning and he was really upset too so… I don’t know. I just hope for something nice to happen.
And it’s such a nice feeling, when you like someone, in the beginning, and you can’t really think about anything else. I know I am exaggerating, really, I am such a girl, but I can’t help it, because I need someone to be with, right now, I really want to be with someone.
God, this is really like an essay. *lol* It’s nice to write long posts though. I love to have this blog because it has two roles: on one side I can write things here to remind of good days, of nice things happening, and on the other side I can write all the things in my head, write down all my emotions, every single thought, even the stupid ones.
One last thing: I am so happy to be back in London. It seems already like I’ve been here for ages and it not even a day!!! And to see Sophie and Kirsty and Kunal and Carol… And James is going to be back today and I am really happy to see him again. I really love him as a friend, and I did miss him (and well, all the others too, but especially James and Sophie) so much!
I am a happy girl with so many thoughts in her head.