Hotel Ivka Dubrovnik

... on us so we got the guy behind the bar at one of the places to look after our bag and we went in for a swim. The water was so clear and beautiful! We couldn&#8217;t wait to jump in! <br><br>We waded in and it was absolutely freezing!! So cold, SO cold!! It was a gorgeous sunny day but apparently no one had told the sea. We took it very slowly until we got out up to the tops of our legs and then we decided it was time to just bite the bullet and get in the water properly. <br><br ...

... But it would allow me to travel at whatever pace I wanted, and be flexible in what places I went to. Just the freedom to travel and experience. <br><br>That was the plan anyway.<br><br>Dubrovnik was to be a great start. The morning after I arrived from London, I climbed the hill (Syd) above the town. From here you could see the whole city and a fair way up the coast. Amazing. On the hill there was also an old fortress ...

... of lightning out over the sea on the way home but were both awoken around 1.30am by what can only be described as explosions in the sky overhead, those missing windows not so clever all of a sudden. Lying there feeling like we were quite exposed the house shook, lightning lit the room as clear as day and the explosions continued until about 4am.<br><br><br>We staggered to the old port the next morning to join our boat for a ...

... right outside Trogir, which took about an hour.  Then we got to our hotel and got our rooming assignments.  After getting settled in the hotel, a bunch of us went out to get dinner and explore our small town a bit.  We wound up at this little Italian restaurant with most of Emerson.  We were all starving, and enjoyed dinner a lot.  After dinner, we walked along the water for a long while just seeing what was around and admiring the beautiful scenery.   At around 10 ...

... on top of the wall. We come back to Dubrovnik after the cruise for another 3 days so we'll take on that challenge when we have more time and energy. After an audio tour visiting all the major sights of the city, we stopped for a pizza at one of the many pizzerias in an alleyway off the Stradun. It felt early to be having dinner, the sun doesn't set until around 8.30pm. Time to make our way back to the boat.

... beer and conversation. This time, instead of cobblestone city squares, we spend our day in the midst of Split's sprawling Roman Palace and its romantic setting of marble tiles glazed with rain, moss-carpeted columns and, most importantly, the opportunity to relax inside history. "Dubrovnik," I think as I finish off a homemade walnut brandy. "I shall write about Dubrovnik." In Dubrovnik, the sun finally breaks ...

... is always perfectly clean and residents obviously take great pride in their community. That pride was never more apparent than in 1991-2 when the Serbs and Montenegrans attacked Dubrovnik from the ridge above town in a siege that killed thousands and caused extensive damage. Having visited Dubrovnik last summer with Lee and Ruben, there were a lot of attractions that I will not do this time since we did them last year. I'll put some of the photos from last year in the photo ...

... the streets...we got about five stopped into the walking tour and found a Hertz. I wonder how much it would cost to rent a car and drive to the coast.... we inquired. 2400 kuna was the first quote... then 10 percent off... he told us he has a Golf and really needed it to get to the coast (probably not the best thing to tell us... now we have more negotiating power...) he said... well... we told him we would come back if once we figured out exactly how much we could ...

... brekky before we were busted. We found a gorgeous pebbly beach about 2 kms down the road with a carpark that would have been perfect for freecamping, situated about 400m off the main road down a dirt track. There were 2 other campers already there when we arrived. It was so lovely we spent the morning there on the beach doing some brown. We are getting quite sensible now and trying to stay out of the sun between 11 and 2.30. So about 11 we headed further south to a beautiful little ...

... entire government period, in order to make him work. We visited this Palace which has a museum with many odd objects and clothes and old trunks with very elaborate locks, but it didn't explain the history of the city very well. It didn't even attempt to explain the recent events in the early 1990's when Dubrovnik was under siege and heavily shelled from the hill above it by Federal Yugoslav forces. It has been almost completely rebuilt ...