My first time in Croatia was back in 1989 when it was still Yugoslavia.  I was travelling in a Yugo rental car with two Canadian girls on a budget of less then $20 per day.   This time Lisa and I are travelling by bus and boat on a budget of $200+ per day.    Our trip from Italy to Croatia started in Venice where we had booked what we thought was a direct bus to our first stop Pula.   We were surprised when the bus that showed up was a 9 passenger van.  What I had in fact booked was a shuttle used mostly by locals  that would pick up and drop off passengers pretty much anywhere.   This included excursions down country lanes and then down long gravel roads to what were either very small towns or large sprawling stone mutli-generation homes.   

Video of our trip from Italy to Pula Croatia and out to the Brijuni National Park on Otok Veliki Island

Seven days cruising the Dalmatian Islands on an e-bike / boat holiday with our friends from Canada Peter and Irene.