Croatia, cake and crochet

I'm going on a trip to Croatia and Italy with a couple of my friends soon and we're having fun (read not) organising all our hostels and working out a rough itinerary (let alone a detailed one). So far we have flights, a ferry from Split to Ancona, Italy rail passes and hostels in Split and Como. The rest of the hostels still need sorting but we've each taken a couple of places to research and can present our ideas to the other two when we meet next. Once we've got an idea of how much it's all going to be and whether we can pay by card we'll be able to get some money. Irritatingly Croatia still uses the Kuna (HRK) so we'll have to get two lots of money. On the other hand the Kuna is far far weaker than the Euro and Pound so it'll be a cheap place to be!
Yesterday I hung around in town with A, one of the people I'm going with, before we had our planning session. Apart from that I didn't do much...
Today I had a brief coffee with C as she's going on holiday tomorrow and I go away while she's away, then she goes back to university very soon after we're both back (same day, same airport, 10 hours apart!). Chances are I won't see her 'til Christmas now.
After that I went to Clarks Village in Street, a smallish kind of outlet mall, with my Mum and sister to buy her clothes for college (not what Americans would call college, she's 16) since she's always had to wear uniform up 'til now. I came away with a lovely pair of softish grey trousers from Fat Face (?11), a denim skirt also from Fat Face (?6.90), and a blue and white reversible bikini from Next (?4!!), it's spotty on one side and stripy on the other.
On the way home we went to Sainsbury's for food shopping and I got a can opener (I expect to be drinking a lot of soup at university...) and a little stainless steel saucepan. Two more things to strike off the list.

Right, I'm quite far behind on my Flickr uploads so these are from July sometime but they're still nice:


Recipe
Flickr page I found it via

I used the good old technique of searching Flickr for a recipe seeing as I hadn't made banana bread at home before. And I'm too lazy to leaf through loooads of recipe books :D
This turned out really nice! I used walnut oil and it had walnuts in anyway so it was quite nutty.
The only minor problem I had was that my loaf tin was a liiiittle too small and the banana bread developed an interesting bulge. Impressively it didn't actually overflow and came out of the tin in one piece!



This was an experiment with crochet. I was trying to make a flower and just about managed it. But then I filled in the space between the petals and it became a coaster.



Sainsbury's Caf? chocolate cake. It had loooads of layers. The bottom one was biscuity stuff like cheesecake base.
(for any Americans Sainsbury's is a supermarket)

Kate and I had lunch in the recently refurbished and upstairs caf? in the Sainsbury's near the M5 in Taunton. They've got sofas and coffee shop type drinks as well as OAP scampi & chips :D



And there's Catty literally lying in wait to finish it off! Happy Thursday!