Aparthotel Villa Nova Neum

... min stroll through the forest you are greeted with a spectacular lake, wow what a sight. Another few mins exploring brought to us another much larger lake. Adjoining the two lakes was a bridge that created a rapid like canal. You start in one lake and the rapids pull you through to the other lake. The trick was to try to go against the current to get back to the first lake. From here we caught a little ...

... the hardest rain of all began to fall as we waited for a bus to appear. After waiting for 20 minutes in the drenching downpour we hopped on a bus for another cruise ship since they were heading back to the same pier. When we reached their ship and asked the bus driver if he could drop us at our pier he threw us off the bus. Not nice! That meant Dwain and I had to make a trek of about a mile in our ...

... blue color and all the mountains look so rugged & then just drop into the sea. We had a bit of a drive around the town of Dubrovnik while trying to find the hotel. It's definately the nicest hotel so far on the trip. Dinner was lovely - smorgasboard! A bunch of the group headed out into town - they were itching to as nobody had been quite ga,e the night before in Albania..... One of the guy's on tour brought his laptop along, so ...

... to go for a walk to try and find some 'normal' shops (the shops in the old town are mostly designer clothes, jewellery, gifts and that kind of thing). I said I thought I knew the way and we started walking. It was dark by this time (about 5pm) and the walk started with a long climb on an ever narrowing path. After about 40 minutes of walking there was no sign of shops so my credibility for knowing stuff was taking a battering. We turned around and decided to wait for ...

... in one of the many Mosques. One of the memorable parts of our tour of Mostar was our guide raving about Bosnian cuisine and recommending all the delicious things we absolutely had to try. What they call Bosnian fast food is a sort of sandwich called "chivapi,"(that's how you pronounce it, not how it's spelled) which is potato bread filled with delicious sausages. They say they still don't have McDonalds because of the popularity and prevalence of the chivapis.

How do you determine if you can count being to a state or a country? Here's what we decided. 1. You have to actually be outside in the place. Therefore, driving through a place in a car, train or bus does not count. Neither do airports. 2. You have to contribute to the local economy. Thus, you have to buy something from somebody in the state or country. Further, Rule Two is subject to Rule One- In other words, duty free airport ...

We took an early bus to Vis to give us a chance to look around, but there's not really much to look at other than a Roman ruin that's not that impressive and was locked anyway. Some people were heading to the beaches, but it was far too hot for me already, at 9am. Perhaps the weather was getting more like Tirana! I wandered around the old cemetery there, and noticed a nice tradition of putting photos of the deceased on their graves. It seems like a good idea to me, to help people ...

... well off. Everyone looks loaded. At the bus station i needed to use the bathroom. Back to squat toilets in public places. Not that i have ever used one properly! I didnt have small change so this tiny old guy who had this face like a pug walked off while i did my thing. I walked out and he was gone. I thought ive been scammed. IDIOT! I think his wife was still sitting there though But after 5 minutes he came back with a big smile on his face ...

... put behind them. The bridge and Old Town are the key points of interest. The Old Bridge has a long history and was famous prior to the war. There is an annual diving competition where guys come from all over the country to dive off the 21m bridge. The years when there was no bridge I understand they jumped off the sides anyway. Today there is still a Diving Club on the bridge and they do dive off periodically after they gather ...

... motivation to go to Eastern Europe early. Thank you to Karim for giving me his favourite sunglasses, and thank you to Poly for talking him into it. Thank you for Wilko, Matt, Banksie and Baz for being absoloute legends. The biggest thank you of all, and I'm sure I speak for Mike on this, when we say a really big thank you for everything to...... me and Mike.... no, no, our Mums and Dads. Thank you all. Nearly done, just a few remarks on me and Mike. Firstly I'd like to stand ...