Croatia 1: Pag Island

Leaving Zagreb at 7am on Saturday 9th August, we hit holiday traffic almost immediately.

 We arrived at Strasko Camping near Novalje on Pag Island a few hours before the Fouries. This is the biggest campsite we have ever stayed at, with thousands of pitches and hundreds of cottages. It's well run though, with excellent facilities and more than a kilometre of private beach; pebble not sand. Coenraad and Mylene's cabin was about 20m from the beach near a bar serving us jugs of cheap, local white wine in the sun. The weather was awesome all week.

 Pag Island is famous for it's cheese and also for it's spit roast pig and lamb.It was a short walk into Novalje in the evening for sunset drinks and dinner.

 Pag Island is also famous for it's all -night, al fresco clubbing scene on Zrce Beach. We usually needed our earplugs in the early hours of the morning when all our tenting neighbours crawled back home from a night of partying, dragging drunk friends and one-night stands with them.