Hotel Aura Red Coral Apartments Cavtat

... the Old Town to find Fresh Sheets hostel together.<br>Fresh sheets seems like a nice little hostel and Karmen that runs it was a really good host giving us shots of pear and walnut rajkia.<br>Walked around Old Town and had a really nice lunch at Lokanda down by the water. Mussels and fried squid were both amazing and super yumm!<br>Walked around the city walls which are way cool. Amazing how thick the ...

... of wine and head to the fortress in town, a secluded section of Dubrovnik with an amazing viewpoint of the Old City. We shot the **** for three hours, concluded that in our lifetimes we'll definitely be going on SAS again, and caught up with the entire experience. Anyway, it was a blast to take in Dubrovnik before returning to my old journaling spot, and then rushing for a taxi back to the ship to avoid dock time. On ship time was 7pm and I was ...

... Casio camera wasn't in my sling bag! I went back to the apartment and unloaded everything from the bag for fear it would fall out and ensured I didn't lose anything ( I didn't for once!). I also left behind the compact camera here in the process. Rejoined Team EAT aka NEEAT and learned we had to walk back the total opposite way to the bus terminal. We bought our tickets to split which were 115 Kuna discounted from 143 since it was a 7 AM departure (so early...sighs ...

... to the legend, grateful citizens erected a monument to Roland who protected Dubrovnik from the raids of the Saracen pirates. Roland was a knight in the army of Charlemagne. He was killed in the battle with the Arabs on the Pyrenees in 778. The beginning of Dubrovnik's golden age coincided with the hoisting of the Republic's flag on Roland's ...

... meal and some crepees for dessert. Party animals that we are we were in bed by 7pm. We caught the first bus out the next moring at 7am and after a ridiculous number of passport checks (out of Bosnia, into Croatia, then into anbd out of Bosnia along the coast, and finially into Croatia again). I'm certainly collecting lots of stamps! We arrived in Dubrovnik to several pushy people offering us accomodaiton, but we declined and walked to the YHA ...

... in price to the rest of the meal so....... Day 2 started with the hotel breakfast, nothing unique to anything we had previously had. Then we were off to see the wizard... I mean the city. We thought we would try to not do the obvious so we skirted the outside perimeter of the city. And we were glad we did. We ended up around the other side and really enjoyed our day wandering ...

... so nice, beautiful scenery... they just don't take care of it! We found a beach anyhow... and had lamb on a spit for dinner! The next day was challenging... the roads got really bad, almost one lane, with a sheer cliff drop on one side and a bank on the other... combined with crazy Albanian drivers it wasn't much fun! And to think this is state highway 1!! I have never driven on anything like it ...

... was nice to ditch our shoes, see the ocean, and be away from the large cities we had been marching through on our vigorous tourist schedule. A sense of calmness continued to grow as we sat on the veranda, not a bad calmness like a long boring lecture but a good calmness like a margarita or a long sauna. I realized that I enjoyed the milder warmer climates more than the colder ones.3 Not the most profound statement because who doesn't. The town itself was a ...

... es una habitacion doble, en fin... la ciudad es una pasada, el casco antiguo rodeado por la famosa muralla es una pasada, todas las casas estan construidas de piedra blanca y con el mar de fondo es una vision increible, la comida aqui es muuuy buena y a precios asequibles, la geografia popular... en fin... es extranio, cuesta aqui arrancar una sonrisa a la gente (aunque yo con mi mal ingles lo tengo mas facil ...

... for those portions. After the movie was over, we headed to dinner at a restaurant within the palace walls called Tifani. The atmosphere was fantastic, and the bathrooms were of high-end American restaurant caliber. The food was good, but not great, and our first duck of the trip was tough and disappointing. Overall, though, the meal was enjoyable, and neither of us could recall the last time we had a "dinner and a movie" date. On Saturday (June 3), we arose quite early (for ...