Hotel Petka Dubrovnik

... are now happily esconced in Dubrovnik. The sobe this time around is at the time of many steps. Many, many, many steps. we counted them on the way down and found other tourists counting them on the way up. Our host's mom greeted us with juice, chips and creamfilled rolls, we are happy, it was a 3 hour drive.

Mon night......

Today Dubrovnik history, and then we hopped a bus and went exploring a Renaissance garden about a half hour ...

... amazing crew everything is so great! everyone is either Austalian or New Zealander bar myself and 2 SOuth African girls! I am the first Canadian!!! There are about 10 other boats with way more people on but I am happy we have a smaller group!

ALSO I have my OWN room!!! haha suckers everyone else has to share!!!! AND my bed is BIG long enough for me I can even point my toes and not touch anything!!!

So we started in SPlit ...

... Dubrovnik is a very beautiful (and not just the women) city, with some interesting and violent history. Worth another visit someday!Tomorrow morning we will be arriving in Venice, Italy at around 12:00pm, this should be beautiful, full details, tomorrow!Goodbye for now! Chat Soon!Carnival Freedom

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... visiting the beautiful small hill town of Motovun. Truffles are plentiful here so we had a delicious lunch of pasta in truffle sauce before making our way further south.  Along the way we also found a great honey co-op and stopped for sampling. One interesting thing about Slovenia and Croatia is that the big hotels are mostly cold communist era architecture in need of major upgrades. Smaller pensions and B&Bs are just starting ...

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... built in 1878, which prompted Marnie to ask a number of questions including 'and it's not going to sink, is it?'. She was only joking but we received a very lengthy answer from the rep detailing the number of passengers she's taken, the certificates of seaworthiness she has etc etc. We boarded at the commercial port near where we were staying and cruised round to Dubrovnik to pick up the rest of the passengers. First stop was a tiny island about 30 mins away with nothing much ...

... the harbour and it was shelling the town, and I have always wanted to go, then the bus arrived and we were once again mobbed by the people offering us a room. We met a nice man, price was good, so we took it, but the room was pretty **** though. Changed, and then decided to hit Dubrovnik. Some people say that you should go on first appearances, while others say that you should always give things a second chance. We walked up to the walls, and words can not describe them. They are ...