Villa 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 ...

... say I'll miss the ship, the constant room service, catered meals, a sundeck, and the fact that I can have a completely aimless day and still feel accomplished towards the end of it. Dubrovnik is so packed with cruise ships that the first two days in port the ship had to drop anchor in the middle of the bay and use the lifeboats to drop all of us off on shore. It won't be until the final day that we get priority to dock on shore so that we don't ...

... last thing you want when its 30 C + outside. We told her the story of bad directions from the port and she wouldn't stop apologizing. She showed us the balcony and said see, look you can see the port from here. And every other landmark we told her apart she would say, you can also see that from here, everything is within 200 m! "Oh, I'm sorry", I'm so sorry." The place had a lot of character with a big display of wines, ornamental paintings, and the white embroidered ...

... in Europe. I was not happy when we were touring the monastary. --- We saw so many beautiful and interesting things. We had to buy postcards to have photos for the scrapbook! (Don't hold your breath about seeing that!) I did manage to take a photo from a window! This is the Rector's Palace we were to see later in the tour. These muscians were ...

... and the Adriatic Sea. The Old Town is a maze of narrow staircases and ally ways that lead to one amazing square or another. All the buildings are made of beige stone with rose colored tile rooftops. With the water surrounding the whole thing, it's really quite pretty. But after three straight days of rain, we decided today to cut our losses and we booked an overnight ferry to go to Bari, Italy ...

... the city. After parking our host walked us through the Ploce gate, down about 125 or so steps to the main plaza where our apartment was located, next to his Auntie Niki. Went out to a wonderful dinner of White Risoto with Shrimp, Pag cheese from the island of Pag, fish soup, and grilled squid. Then, like every where I had Gelato, chocolate this time. Then we went to an Irish pub for a pint before turning in.

... aside, Montenegro was beautiful, a scenic coastline drive with little islands scattered out in the ocean. We free camped right by the ocean... had a swim and chilled out. The next day it was in to Kotor, a cute village with cobbled lanes, lots of little churches, plenty of shops and all above a huge fjord... we shopped at a local market... nice fresh fruit and vege plus a cheap butcher which was ...

... stopped overnight at Plitvice National Park. Our hotel gave away our reservation when we didn't show up by 6 (a clause they did not inform me of when I made the reservation), but they were very helpful in finding us alternate accomodation next door. In the morning, we explored the park. Rick Steves recommended arriving early (which we did) and he was absolutely right. By ...

... SFO was especially pointed for us after we were forced to spend 5$ on a pen, a single pen, so that I might grade some papers during the flight. In Luton one could purchase several pens for that price. Truly a great airport. Now, onto Croatia. Due to our logistical genius we arrived in Split, Croatia last night at 5 45 pm. Which is a perfectly fine time to arrive, if you intend to spend the night in Split. However, as Katie had warned us that Split, "sucks", we ...

... both a guide book and by my cab driver, although it was great to be able to eat fresh seafood for the first time in weeks(other than fish from the Black Sea which reminded me of the three-eyed fish from the Simpsons' episode) and went to a jazz bar and an Irish bar. We met a couple of cool Norweigian guys, and the same Cal water polo players I met in Sarajevo. On Thursday night, we tried a random restaurant based purely on the fact that I saw ...