Cina Apartments & Rooms Cavtat

... our own room and bathroom and be able to sleep in peace!
We arrived in Dubrovnik, Croatia early the next morning. We decided not to join all of those rushing to get off the ship and instead played some minigolf and had some lunch before disembarking. We took a shuttle into the city and walked all around the old city, which is surrounded by thick walls. All of the buildings are the same colour and look very similar. We headed down ...

... I got to catch the opening ceremonies of the Olympic games in Beijing (how much money did China spend on these?!?), the booze was cheaper than in Dubrovnik, and I got to know a new friend quite a bit better. We had an entertaining night around Split and found a cheap hostel to crash in before giving up and returning to Dubrovnik the following morning due to the ferry situation. I'm two weeks away from coming back home and though I'm half excited, I ...

We spent a week in beautiful Cavtat, a little town in the South of Croatia. We had been invited to celebrate Daniel's 30th B-Day at his family House and it just so happened that Nate's birthday was the same week. It was great spending time with good friends, barbecuing Calamares and Cevapcici and exploring the wild nightlife of Dubrovnik (just kidding). Most of all the ocean was amazing, crystal clear best jumped into from the many rocks.

When we first started planning this trip I wasn't too keen about going to Croatia. All I could remember about Croatia and Dubrovnik were war stories, and not too long ago either. But, what the heck, we were there so I scheduled an excursion for the day. We needed to take a Tender to the town as we were anchored offshore. As we looked around what do I ...

... we'd booked. The walk turned out to be rather long, and uphill for a good part - not so fun with huge packs. Amusingly and old man who had offerred us accomodaiton at his guesthouse ended up giving us directions and then droive past us again a bit later tooting and waving. We later found out that he had done this to others at the YHA - to the extent he was parked outside the hostel when one lady arrived, having declined him at the station ...

Did you know that the fountain pen was invented by a Croatian? And the first parachute? Did you know that the country pegs its currency to the Euro, but at different rates in summer and winter so it costs more to visit in summer and the government can stockpile hard currency? I still can't afford this place in winter. Lucky I didn't show up in July. I have traveled from Prcanj, Crna Gore (Montenegro) to Hrvatska (Croatia). I knew when I started this trip in Estonia, I would ...

... time to get our affairs in order in Kotor before we had to board a bus back down the coast to catch our late night ferry. We sat in the town of Bar and fended off Gypsie kids who tried to take our Fanta drinks till we could board. The ferry turned out to be more crazy fun! Our crazy expensive tickets only got us deck seats, but fortunatly most people filled up the cabins so there were only a few other backpackers in the non lit room full of ...

... I was expecting here. White stucco buildings and red tile roofs. Not many modern buildings, just a few ugly apartment highrises, most of the houses are 1-3 stories. Only one building had veident blast marks from the Balkan war of 1991-95. About 75% of the houses have brand new red tile roofs and you can tell the tourist boom is helping. We talked to a guy today that was 13 years old when the they were ...

... of human hair that was found in bags to be shipped to Germany and made into fabric, luggage of the victims, glasses, cookware and every imaginable personal effect from someone who had no idea these things were unnecessary where they were going. The Germans reused everything and most of this had already been shipped back to the fatherland or destroyed as the Russians approached. For some reason the most moving display was a glass enclosed room full of shoes. Every shoe you could imagine ...

... routes being opened to the east, saw Dubrovnik fall into a languid decline. Napoleon finished the job in 1806 when he took the reins. The most recent tale of woe to befall Dubrovnik was its largely pointless bombardment by the Yugoslav army (primarily Serbs and Montenegrins) in 1991. That sort of surprised me actually - I ...