President Dubrovnik

... island and go for a swim. We could have swum on this side but we had been told the beach on the other side was particularly nice and only a short walk. <br><br>Short walk it was, but a fair chunk of it was all uphill! It was becoming a common theme in Dubrovnik! This one was particularly steep, not as steep as our mountain goat hill in Zermatt, but steep enough that I needed to pause a couple of times. <br><br>At the top of the hill you turn a corner and start heading down again and ...

Dubrovnik was to be the beginning of my solo backpacking trip around Europe. My philosophy on this trip was to travel as basic as possible. Meaning; local transport, cheap hostels and a fair amount of walking. Taxi's, hotels and organised tours were to be avoided as much as possible. This was all about experiencing the best and worst of a country and not just the tourist trail. <br><br>I chose to start in Dubrovnik as ...

... and were trundling away from the old town with a Croatian grandmother clucking contentedly in the front. Our room was within walking distance of the old town (just), on the Lapad peninsula, as always it was very clean and comfortable and it had a large balcony looking down onto greenery below. In the excessive heat we were glad of the fact that the windows were missing out to the balcony, allowing the breeze in. <br><br><br ...

Okay, I am back and have a ton of work to do, and have no idea how to sum up my trips into a blog entry.  But I am going to try, so bear with me.  We left on Thursday the 9th after I had Ethics class in the morning (blahhh!).  We got on the bus and drove to Cologne Bonn Airport, where we flew out of.  We got on the plane after checking in and security and all that, and began the flight to Split, Croatia.  I sat next to a German couple on holiday, and they were very ...

... day together. No early morning buses to catch. No Internet and emails to check. No errands to run and, most importantly, no work of any kind to be done- Except for mine. But instead of work I want to stay up late and sleep in. And neither of us really wants to spend our days inside a museum- that just sounds like work. So instead of an agenda we opt to freelance our way through Zagreb, which essentially means ...

... than yesterday. I wondered if I was seeing any of the same fish and if they would think, oh that's the guy from yesterday. :-) It felt much hotter today and I just wilted on the hot rocks. I finished Coben's Back Spin before heading back to town. I did some window shopping and grabbed dinner before turning in. 8/17 I woke up feeling very lethargic and decided I would skip swimming around the island today. I still went over to the island, passing Royal Caribbean's Legend of the ...

... Davor actually lived at the hostel.... they both travel all the time. Have been to the states several time. Did you know that the marble that was used to build the White House came from Croatia... interesting I thought. I always feel a little strange when people we meet traveling know those interesting facts about our country that we don't know... We ended us have lunch at a great pizzeria next to the huge produce market in the middle of the square... only $6 of an ...

... coastline of Lukrum Island, with then warm waters of the Mediterranean licking at my heels. The sun had managed to find an opening in the dense sky cover, shining through; it rather rapidly dried the puddles and scared away the rain clouds to turn the afternoon into a most glorious day. "The sun is out, the sky is blue, it's beautiful and so are you dear Prudence...won't you come out to play?"

... the Placa is at the lowest point. The Placa used to be a marshy strip separating a small island from the mainland. The further out from this main street, the more intimate the city is, because the lanes are very steep and narrow, with laundry hanging over them and people living close by. Up one of the lanes not too far from the Ploce gate, on the inland side, is a little French bakery which sells fantastic quiche. I highly recommend ...