Blogs from Dalmatia, Croatia, Europe - page 69

On Tuesday I took the bus from Budva to Dubrovnik, where I stayed for one night. Once again I stayed in a hostel located within the walls of the Old Town, which was really convenient for making the most of my short stay. Dubrovnik's Old Town is a lot bigger than those in Kotor or Budva: while both those Old Towns are so small that a visitor quickly becomes familiar with the whole layout, Dubrovnik's is just big enough that one can wander through charming, unfrequented back alleys. However, Dubrovnik is visibly a lot more commercialized and touristic than either of the Montenegrin towns I visited: its main boulevards are perpetually packed with tourists from all over the world (British, American, German, Canadian, Japanese, Korean, French, Russian...) and the streets are lined with classy restaurants and ... read more

We set off early as we were not really sure how long it would take us. Once again we avoided the toll roads and went up the coast road to Trieste. What a lovely trip. Northern Italy is packed with industry and farms. Not an inch of land is left uncultivated. Once more you could see our all the little family farms had gone to be taken over by industry or larger farming operations. The place is littered with abandoned farm buildings. The Italian farmers no longer keep animals. In fact apart from one small housed diary farmed I didn't see a single animal anywhere. And for that matter no cats. The Italian, like that French are mad on their dogs. I think dogs come before children. That has been one of the hardest things to ... read more

Dear travel frıends, thıs ıs my fırst blog wıth photos.Maybe not the best but ı hope ı slowly learn to workıng wıth the blogs and photos and after wıll be more ınteressand :) Lıttle about my trıp to Croatıa.I very much lıke sun and for thıs ı was search for a country wıt a lot of sun. I was found a country not so far from my destınatıon and ı was happy.I was stay ın the country cca 6 months and ı was learn about the people and the culture. I was just ın a holıday destınatıon but ok :) I was helppıng one of my frıend wıth the work there,ıt was about a campıng.It was very nıce and ı was enjoy the tıme. I have met a lot of new frıends,some of them good frıends ... read more

Excited anticipation for my upcoming trip. In 2008 my sister and I took our Mom on a cruise in the Mediterranean taking off from Venice, Italy and going down the coast visiting Greece and Croatia. One day during our cruise we had over four hours visiting the Old Town of Dubrovnik, Croatia. I fell in love with the town and with the well kept buildings that had their red tiled roofs repaired after their recent war in 1991. The people I met were all so happy that we had come to visit them and went out of their way to make us feel at home. My sister and I walked around the old wall which encompassed the entire Old Town of Dubrovnik and is approximately 2kms in distance. The day was sunny and warm with the ... read more

Saturday (28/8/2010) Our host dropped us down to the Port and pointed us in the direction of the passenger ferry, (as it turned out it was quicker and cheaper than the car ferry). We joined the growing queue happy not to be one of the late ones turned away and got a couple one way tickets to the Island of Mljet (as recommended by KB and Sas). We arrived at Mljet a couple hours later and took one of the local touts offers of a cheap apartment just 500m from the port. We got lunch supplies whilst the prepared our apartment and enjoyed our salad rolls in the sun of our balcony. Afterward's we hired some bikes and set off into the National Park to Mljet's famous lakes. After a steep climb and a couple consultations ... read more