Garni Hotel Bokeska Noc Herceg-Novi

Dubrovnik photos here:<br>http://www.facebook.com/album. php?aid=159757&amp;id=613699523&amp;l=a 6a18d129e<br><br><br>Monday got up early to catch 8am bus from Split to Dubrovnik. Some great views out the right side of the bus across the Adriatic sea as we wound around the mountains.<br>Met Mark from Glasgow on the bus to the Old Town and he was staying at the same place as Nonie and me so we walked ...

... The cities main source of income is tourism as it is so steep and rocky there doesn't appear to be any crops or livestock. There are a few fish or shell fish farms in the inner penninsula area. Fun day, all aboard by 1.30pm and set off back to Venice just as the weather closed in, cloudy and misty again. Picture postcard lovely to visit but dont think I'd want to live here. Deb

... hurry. Darko's friend, a German man living in Serbia for years and an important military employee of the Serbian government in a grayish older large SUV vehicle with what seemed a special license plate was impatiently waiting at the front gate of the airport for us. Darko's friend did not speak fluent English but he did speak fluent German and Serbian. Darko told him to help lift my luggage into the trunk in Serbian and he did. Darko always liked to brag and as usual he introduced ...

... write home about especially after passing the fantastic looking Kotor an hour ago. We got attacked but the manditry 'old housewife' but we fended her off to buy a bus ticket.....and thats were it went wrong as there is not direct bus to Mostar as the LP stated and we would have to change in Dubrovnik....which we can get to from Kotor....so the whole 2 hours excursion was for nothing....for the love of travel!!!! Once back in Kotor this time two 'old ...

... everywhere in the mountains - so much baron wasteland! We did stop &amp; get Winnie washed though by one of the many families trying to earn a living - very nice children who were very excited by the 5 Euro they got, as well as some sweets we gave them! You can definitely see the presence of Italians in Albania - every second car is Italian - obviously investing here it seemed, buying land &amp; building on it! Quite funny story - we were behind a ...

... streets snd explore the tiny city. Within the city of 20,000 people there must be at least 10-15 churches dating from the 12 century onwards. Instead of visiting most of them I decided to buy 3 liters of water and get my heart pumping by climbing up the mountain to the Fortress to get a better view of the city from above. This got a lot of "thumbs up" reaction when I got back to the house since Mihala and her parents had never made the hour long trek up the mountain.

... favourite for us to invest in. There's been the first wave of entrepreneurial investment and a fair few people have made a lot of money over the past 2 years, but the place looks highly likely to take off in a much much bigger way (very soon). The inlet is just ideal for boat cruising, weather (in summer) is just perfect, and there's plenty of 'other stuff' to do. So we're thinking about what we need to do to if we want to get the most out of it. Hmmmm......

... very excited to see foreigners who spoke half way decent broken English. We asked them about the hotel on the hill and they responded excitedly by pointing up this hill with the path that went through a small forest. So, I asked the young girls to stay with Tammy in this nice little residential neighborhood and I started briskly walking up the hill. The brisk walk turned into a brisk hike As I was headed up the hillside, going ...

... you have to worry if it's acceptable to others, it becomes more stressful. Long story short, they followed us up to a place we didn't choose because of its poor location and distance from the old town (like 1,000 stairs away), and they hopped the first cab to their hotel. I was relieved, and ten minutes later, we found our Dubrovnik mom. She told the truth when she claimed to have it all; she was five minutes walking distance to the old town, yet, high enough on the ...

... to how the other half live. And for $5-7 Euro you can actually go in and see how they live, although I was unamused when I work out afterwards that I was actually paying to visit a hotel. Still, the charge probably keeps the tourist masses out. Seeing some of the swanky bungalows and expansive views you realise why. There are a number of other ...