This adventure entails daily new experiences that better enable us to handle future events or situations. Two particular scenarios occurred to us during our two night stay on the nothing happening island that is Korcula.

We arrived late evening to Korcula port from Hvar and got a free shuttle bus inland to Dragon’s Den Hostel. It was here the first new experience commenced. Those who know of the ‘Dragons Den’ know that the owner creeps on all the women. To Eddie and I, we admired the reactions of the girls being creeped on. The owner’s name was, and I kid you not, Dragon Tupac. It’s his legal name and is written on his birth certificate. As unbelievable as that is, it’s not what I was referring to with a new experience. Neither of us have ever slept in a dungeon, let alone a dungeon of some dude called Dragon Tupac with twenty dodgy beds stacked in threes. Climbed over other travelers’ bags to get to the spare two beds down the back of the dungeon. It was these beds that we would be calling ‘home’. There was zero ventilation down there as well making night’s close to unbearable to sleep.
It’s amazing how your tolerance levels for different things change the more new experiences you partake. Eddie nor I had stayed in a room with that many people before let alone a dungeon although it wasn’t that bad.

The second new experience we entailed started in Zadar; a flight booking experience. As stated several times already, we are on budget. This means that flights we need to buy over here have to be cheap as chips. In Zadar, we booked a flight from Vienna to Istanbul. Sent through credit card details and instantaneously received a confirmation text and emails. Questions arose a few days later when I still hadn’t been charged for the flights. It was at this point a situation occurred neither of us have had to handle before. I didn’t do anything about it giving the benefit of the doubt that everything would be sweet. That and hoping that the situation would just disappear and fix itself. From past experiences on our trip so far, the Battlers have already discovered that nothing fixes itself. Not even the cuts on your feet.
It was the morning after our first night in the death dungeon that I had a a massive gut feeling and realisation that some Neo style bullet dodging had to be done. Googled ‘I booked a flight online with Pegasus and didn’t get charged’, the first result being ‘From Dreams to Scams’. Instantly I knew we’d been scammed because the website we booked the flights through was edreams.com. It was an article about how edreams just scams innocent folk like the Battlers and exploits them the best way they can, by taking their monies and heading to the hills. Luckily I managed to lock my card before I could get charged. A pain in the ass but thankfully edreams had too many other people to scam before they managed to get us.

I’ve even exposed to scams before but have never fallen for them. Never thought I’d be one of those people who fell for those things. Guess everyone let’s their guard down and with our guard consistently up with everything else, we became too trusting.

Anyway, those were our two new experiences we encountered on our trip and in our lives. Lucky for us they didn’t turn to shit like they definitely could have.

Other than that, like we’ve already mentioned, Korcula is a hit of a nothing happening place but is nice to relax. We gathered some Aussie girls staying in our hostel who we met in Hvar, and Dragon drove us to go cliff jumping. The only reason he would take us is if there were girls that went and if there was at least one girl for him as he specifically requested a proper even ratio of males to females. His last condition was that all the girls went skinny dipping when we got to the water. This of course did not eventuate. The cliff jump was only about eight metres high into a cove. Water was warm, another sunny hot day and enjoying a relatively hassle free lifestyle.

At the conclusion of the Zadar post, I wrote that hopefully for you, something unfortunate occurs to us. Well something did happen which hopefully gave added value to the definition of ‘battler’.

Moving into Dubrovnik next, an apparently awesome city so we’ll see how that goes.

Peace out x