Zadar, Croatia and summer plans

March 30th to April 2nd a few friends and I will be in Zadar, Croatia.  I don't know much about Croatia other than it used to be a pretty war torn place and used to be part of Yugoslavia.  We will probably just hang out in the city and hopefully do some swimming in the mediterranean as our hostel will be right near the water.  It will be kind of nice to just chill out and not catch trains all over europe like we have previously done.  Everything there is very affordable and there are some very scenic national parks around which we might try and check out.  Croatia is an up and coming tourist location so hopefully it lives up to its expectations.

Zadar

Today I reserved my room for the summer.  I still am unsure with what I am doing this summer but since the rent is free over June and July I figured I would reserve it.  Most of the jobs for exchange students pay very little but you can get 2 meals a shift which in Sweden is big money.  The snow is continuing to melt slowly but surely.  Grass is visible in a few places but a solid foot of snow still needs to be melted.  

When my family comes in May we were planing on going to Copenhagen, Denmark for a couple days.  After I checked out some RyanAir flights I found out that it would be much cheaper to go to the other side of Europe to an island in Greece.  We are going to the island of Rhodes for 3 days and 2 nights.  None of us have been there and we have some Greek in our blood so it only made sense.  I think the cheapest way to travel europe is just to get to Ireland or England and then book RyanAir or EasyJet flights for a fraction of what they would be on any other airline.  

Right now I have a take home exam for my geography course.  It is surprisingly difficult as we have to type 1,500 words for each question and there are 4 questions in 48 hours.  The clocks ticking I need to get back to work.