Honeymoon: Day Ten, CROATIAN TRAIN RIDE

JK, Sept 20 2010: Something I have meaning to write about, and which we anticipated prior to the trip, is the experience of travelling by train. While a first class Euro-Rail pass by no means guarantees first class travel, we are at present enjoying such, in a quiet cabin shared with two Aussies, Tim and Jess.

The views of Croatian countryside are pastoral and extraordinary. Small white farm houses with red clay tiled rooftops; fields of corn swathed in mist; hills of gold, brown and green ferns mottled, flashing in the sun. Many rivers here are flooded.

Honeymoon: Day Ten, VENICE - ZAGREB - SPLIT

JK, Sept. 20 2010: I am writing while on the train to Split, from Zagreb, picking up on the writing trail from our last full day in Venice. The arrival the night before offered a small peak at and taste of what was to come - great food and stunning beauty (of course).

Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb

Honeymoon, Day Ten: VENICE - ZAGREB

Jessica, Sept. 19 2010: Last night I had a dream about an old man with a new life. Isn't that strange? But I think that's Venice. Full of tourists on a Saturday, could barely see Piazza San Marco.

Honeymoon: Day Four, Cinque Terre

Jessica, Sept. 12 2010: Woke at 3:00 am. So brutal to be exhausted by 10, but nice to be in Nice before everyone wakes up. Hopped on the train at 9:23 am, after a full breakfast and checking out of our hotel. I vowed not to eat cheese, after feeling sick from too much rich food the night before! Ah! That carbonara! Heaven!

Anyway, on to the train and fast asleep. Change at Ventimiglia, then change again at Genova, then disembark at Monterosso around 3:00 pm. The train station was so crowded - alarmingly so.