Rixos Libertas Dubrovnik Hotel

... sunshine, history, sights, and activities. <br><br>We stayed in the best soba yet while we were here. It&#8217;s a &#8220;boarding house&#8221; a couple owns and runs. They have about 5 apartments all in a row, next to their house. We stayed in a studio apartment, complete with a bathroom, a kitchen (with a microwave!), and a TV. Every morning we would wake up, prepare our breakfast and eat outside at one of the shared patio tables, which are below fruit trees ...

... highly recommend anyone going to Dubrovnik to do the city wall walk and if you can, plan it for just before sunset.<br><br>Once we got back down onto the ground and into the town, we wandered around the streets for a bit longer. At around 9pm we started off on the trek back home and decided to count the steps in took to get there. Exactly 400! We were shocked by the fact that each day that we'd been there, we'd been walking UP at least 800 stairs a day, let alone that ...

And still the weather holds fine, albeit overcast. Anonther big cruise ship in town. We decide to do the early glass-bottom boat tour. No commentary, apart from Japanese tourists, but a nice tour around the walls of Dubrovnik and Lokrum. Chill out for afternoon. Again we try to catch the sunset at Bar Buza II. Again the champagne gets the ...

... jump.  So I ate lunch at a cliff bar...and that actually counted as a day of school.  At 2:30, we continued our lessons by going on a tour of the Rector's Palace.  I am getting pretty good at reading buildings and classifying what style they are in.  Rob let us out for the day at 4, so I went swimming again, knowing that it would probably be the last time!  It was gorgeous and I soaked up every second of it.  After, we went shopping for some souvenirs, and me ...

... up. We haven't heard or seen many antipodeans during our whole trip and then next thing you know there are thousands of them. It was amusing seeing the way people had spruced up their vans for the tour, poor old Clive looked a little under dressed in comparison. We drove out to the Island of Korcula after leaving the camp site, along another beautiful stretch of coast line. A few days on an island, well why not! Mile so Far: 12707

... The level of English in Bosnia is very different from that of Croatia. I guess it was ignorant of me to think I can get by all of Eastern Europe and Western Balkans with English coupled with charades. Now I was going to be stuck in Trebinje. And though it was supposed to be the second most beautiful Bosnian city with a bridge equal to Mostar's, I did not want to spend the night for another Stari Most. After another round ...

... it's nearly already full and there's no chance of me getting extra leg room. However... 5 minutes later, the bus driver comes on and shouts (from what I can gather) that there are so many people there are now 2 buses, one to Dubrovnik and one to Split. So half of us uproot again, get our bags, transfer them over, and I end up being the last one on the bus. As I get on, its clear there are too many people for the remaining seats, so I say a quick prayer and sure enough the man on the ...

We've finally made our way to a new country, Bosnia-Hercegovina and its quite an interesting location... A lot of funding has poured into the country, in an effort to rebuild the country that suffered so much during the war, and so the rebuilt bits have more or less returned to their old glory... The parts that have maintained the same are a stark reminder of what happened...half demolished buildings, laden with bullet holes, are certainly an eye-opener to a spoiled girl from ...

... back from whence we had come to Sucuraj, heading for the ferry off this god-forsaken isle. On the narrow roads on the way back, our driver's side mirror clipped the mirror of an on-rushing 4WD. The Italian driver stopped his car and got out gesticulating angrily. Andrew hopped out of the van and the look on his face must have told the Italian that today was not the day to be yelling at us, and he jumped back in his 4WD and sped off. As we got to the ferry, we managed to sneak on to ...

... to what we'd seen along the coast. It was all Alpine scenery, pine trees everywhere. By the time we got to Zlabjak we were exhausted. We were a little taken back by how small the town was but luckily we were the only ones with backpacks on the bus and there was one lady there offering rooms. Sold! It was the most basic house we've stayed in so far but was also the best. It was little chalet style house. The window pains had been nailed into the windows.. that kind of thing but ...