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The afternoon was spent meandering around the Plitvice lakes with Blair. Now all the descriptions in the guidebooks and from people who had been there, raving about how beautiful the lakes and waterfalls are, still didn't do them justice. It's limestone country with sinkholes surrounded by lush vegetation and I liked the tiniest lakes best of all. I took possibly hundreds of photos in proof of this :) The boardwalks are slightly rickety and precarious yet they hold up with foot-traffic of thousands of people every day. Entry fee includes the bus/train which drops people at the end of the walks, and the boat across the lakes; the whole set-up is pretty organised. If not staying in one of the big hotels then private accommodation in guesthouses is the best option, and they are really nice but sometimes something is lost in translation, even on a booking site in English...
Apparently "two-bed room" does not, as you might expect, mean a room with two beds, but rather, a bed for two. Or, in this case, a bed big enough to sleep about 4 - so that I never even knew I was sharing. (But we were both pretty excited, the next night in Zadar, to score an apartment with 2 whole bedrooms for 80 euro/night. I hadn't had a room to myself for nearly 2 weeks!)