Blogs from Dubrovnik, Dalmatia, Croatia, Europe - page 45

I LOVE LOVE LURVE Croatia. The people are so nice and speak English. The food is great. The town is beatiful and the weather for the first time ever is sunny and I am for the first day jacket free. I've been walking around with a huge grin on my face all day today. Last night was very rainy but tolerable as the weather wasn't very cold. We took our 3rd attempt at a Jazz bar and struck gold. I drank red wine and smiled and sang as the band played jazz and some pop music. At the end of the night I asked them to play Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars and they happily obliged. I was their favorite spectator of the evening as I was singing and clapping along with them. The funniest 3 ... read more

As my nephew Dylan would say, I'm at the place of "my people". We landed in Dubrovnik around 2pm. I was busy trying to catch up on my journal writing so I missed the landing but Alistair said it was the most amazing landing he'd ever seen. I should catch up on Vienna first though... Yesterday was FREEZING cold in Vienna. When the heavy wind would kick in (which was often) it was hard to walk and was quite horrible. In the morning I told the guys my only definate must do was to go to the house of Mozart. It was pretty cool. The audioplayer was in English and each room's message would play for so long that we'd end up sitting on a bench to finish listening to it. It started on the 4th ... read more

Hi. My camera suddenly stopped working on Mljet today. So the pride of 1999 (my camera is "old") will soon be laid to rest, but worry not as a backup has presented itself! At least for the near future. So another addition with no pictures, at least for now. If you thought the last entry was sloppy and writting quickly, you haven't seen nothing yet. Quick travel update: I'm sitting in Dubrovnik on what will be my final night here, after a daytrip to the national park and island of Mljet (just TRY to pronounce that!). I have met two French Canadians that I've adventured with these days and we just rented a car for a week so we'll set out north tomorrow! Around Plitvice National Park, we will part and they will go back to ... read more

Today is our last day in Dubrovnik, so sad we have to leave Danka and Marija so soon, wish i could stay here forever. As we are taking the afternoon flight, we decided to just laze around in the house, and pack our stuff. We need to reserve energy for the amazing race this afternoon, you see. The travelling schedule for today is pretty tight. We had booked our airtickets (Croatia Airline) a month ago, as the morning tickets were already fully booked, that leaves us with only the 4.20pm flight from Dubrovnik to Zagreb. By the way, the air ticket was really cheap, it cost less than 30 Euro per person for a one hour flight. Its definitely better than taking a 12 hour bus from Dubrovnik to Zagreb. The shuttle bus from where Danka´s ... read more

We booked a full-day guided excursion to neighbouring Montenegro for Friday (12 May). We had wanted to go To Mostar (Bosnia & Hecegovina) but had missed the excursion 3 times in Split, Korcula island and now Dubrovnik (talk about being suay, we are really very unlucky to have missed Mostar 3 times in a row). So the next best option for us to experience some other place than Croatia is, Montenegro. The excursion cost a whopping 53 Euro each, not including lunch, but as we wont visit Montenegro on its own, this is the best opportunity to go and visit it. Well, the coach was full of silver-haired european pensioners/retirees and we are the only Asians. The excursion set off from Dubrovnik and drove up the mountain, we drove through 25 hairpins (1 hairpin is 1 ... read more