After three months in the sandpit I was starting to get restless, it's been an intense experience relocating here and with Ramadan in full swing and the temperature hitting over 40c every day I was ready to blow the joint if I didn't get some respite... so a short break at short notice, looked on the Fly Dubai site for destinations and came up with Croatia, spot on.., that'll do, I've always wanted to visit Croatia... so a little fact finding mission was underway as soon as you could say 'stick it on the Mastercard'.
It's a 5 hour flight into Zagreb and then a 3 hour drive down to the coast where I had booked an apartment for 4 nights at Split. Exchange rate is 9 Kuna to the £.. so make it 10 to the £ after several beers have gone down and the already very reasonable prices start to make the place seem remarkably cheap.
So...