Apartments Bacan Cavtat

bye bye Balkan<br><br>Statt den Airport Bus von Dubrovnik zu nehmen, habe ich ein Boot nach Cavtat genommen, um mir diese Stadt noch anzuschauen, ist allerdings eine recht ueberschaubare Stadt:-)<br><br>Von dort bin ich dann zu Fuss zum Flughafen, recht verschlafen, aber ein bisschen mehr los als in Wellington. Wifi ist ebenfalls frei (man muss sich aber einen Gutschein mit dem Passcode von der Information besorgen ...

... the blue waters of the bay. The views of both the islands and the town of Perast were amazing from the water. Once on the Lady of the Rock Island, we had about 30 minutes to tour the impressive church and museum there.<br><br>Legend has it that a long time ago, fisherman noticed a strange glow coming from this part of the bay. They later found a religious icon in the water, and the site became holy. To pay respects, locals would drop a rock ...

... the only flavour of "crisps" in Europe). It was our turn to cook so I quickly put on the water for the pasta and frozen mediterranean veggies which had a sauce with them too, so when we dumped them in we saved our broth for the noodles to get extra flavour. The leftover spaghetti from the night before burned quickly when heated and was promptly discarded! Haha, oh my details! Ok so basically David finished up while I showered and the meal was really good. We finished ...

... cyclist in town, so would have to survive future social situations without the novelty value! The Finnish guy was wearing a disturbingly tight all in one black lycra outfit, so before this awful sight permanently burned itself into my retina i headed off along the coast road into town. Dubrovnik didnt blow me away. It is simply another charming walled town (and I have seen lots of them this holiday!) but the locals were ...

We spent about ten days travelling through the Balkan countries of Bulgaria, Macedonia, Albania, Montenegro, Croatia and Slovenia. These countries are all in various stages of economic independance and waking up from Communist rule. Our first stop was Sophia, a city with alot of history. The Aleksander Nevski Church is a massive gold-domed Russian Orthodox church built in 1892. It's ceiling and walls boast ...

Getting to Montenegro seemed to be a problem. The Albanian transport system is, how shall we say, not really existant. Travelling to and from Albania mostly depends upon glorified vans called 'Furgons'. These are basically entrupenures who have taken it upon themselves to fill a massive void in the countries transport and over time have loosely formed a 'system'. The only real way to find out where the Furgons pick people up is to ask locals. To be ...

... us what the problem was. (Actually, he only speaks Russian, so all the conversations he had were with Jane, who understands Russian pretty well.) When we started to go through our litany of complaints, he felt obliged to reverse our negative opinion of all things Albanian and offered to drive us to Montenegro himself. He dropped us in Budvar, a town that, on the map, seemed like a nice coastal retreat. It is not. The time we realise this is around the same time ...

... at us like we were crazy. (Al told us the Croatians always try to look cool, and dancing wouldn't be "cool".) Al moved us on to another bar where we had a couple drinks. Charley and I stopped by the "lock-in" bar from last night, but it was locals only this time. Another late night. Said goodbye to Charley :( (hopefully I'll see her again in London) and later caught the ferry to Hvar with Cara, Brianne and Aya. The hostel rep was there waiting for us and showed us the way ...

... attention and led us to a house right in the middle of the most picturesque, tiny little town... we stayed for 4 nights at Teja and Tonci's lovely house... swimming, walking around to little beaches, hired a boat for a day zooming around the beautiful little islands nearby... stopping for beers and swims at any little place we could find.. Probably left it a little late to start heading back with the wind picking up and clouding ...

Wow, we have just spent five nights here in Budva, Montenegro. It is absolutely beautiful. We laid out in the sun and done pretty much nothing. Jamie decided to get a little daring one day and skimped on the sun-screen. This led to third degree burns on his stomach and a bizzare looking tan line that gives the impression that he ...