It’s raining, where shall we go today?

23.8.15

Woke up to black clouds and just so pleased it was nice for Dubrovnik Old Town yesterday.
It looked like it might brighten up and the original plan was a nice relaxing beach day for our last day.
After breakfast we walked along the headland turning left from our ‘hotel’
Saw the huge Palace hotel that even has an underground car park for the posh cars. We sat and admired the lovely view for a while watching clouds and decided to head back before it rained. There was nothing else beyond there.

Near the hotel is a travel shop, the assistant caught us and asked if we wanted to go to Mostar. I explained that we’ve been and it’s a shame there’s no other towns nearby.
She suggested Cavtat about 20 km away and explained how to get the 10 bus from the main bus station.

So we collected brollies and swimwear and set off. We had to get our number 4 bus to old town and another out again. we found out we can buy a 24 hour unlimited ticket. Perfect.
Jumped on the number 6 in the Old Town and ended up by the shops we found yesterday but on the wrong side of the harbour for the bus station.
Jumped off just in time to see a number 10 disappear around the corner, but at least we knew we didn’t have to go all the way back to the bus station.
Had a coffee as it was a 45 minute wait for the next bus.

The number 10 is a suburban route so we couldn’t use card but was only £2.50 anyway!
The road was narrow, bendy with sheer drops to the sea, just a tad scary!

Cavtat is one of Croatia’s prettiest towns apparently. It didn’t disappoint,a fabulous little town, mostly cafes and restaurants and surrounded by rocky beaches.
The rain stopped and the sun came out.

We followed the path around the bay and found a nice spot for me to chill with Jeffrey Archer while John went for a run.
He did around 7 km, and ended up going up as high as the bus road.
Sat enjoying the sun for a while when he got back, then had to move further round the bay to find more sun. Cavtat is a really relaxed pretty place to spend a few hours.

We decided to get the boat back which was really great.
Had a bit of banter with the boat ticket guys, they were a right pair of characters, they were keen to show off their Turkish when we said goodbye.

It was lovely to see the Old Town from the sea

It was fab to have a last stroll back through the Dubrovnik Old Town to get our bus back.
Turned out to be a lovely day and thanked the travel shop lady for the recommendation.

Dinner was so so tonight. Probably ate too much cake though.

Currently at our usual bar using the WiFi as if course it doesn’t work where we’re staying.
I might have mentioned this before.
Saw this and nearly choked this morning, not sure how I haven’t noticed it before….its pointing to our ‘hotel’!

Does it count when there’s no WiFi and a group of chain smoking blokes by the reception day and night with umpteen beer bottles on their table?
Have certainly never seen anyone serving anything there!

It’ll be a old day tomorrow, bus to Sarajevo, apparently 7 hours.
John has his travel sickness gum safely in his hand luggage!

Observations

We passionately hate where were staying, Booking.com have been as good as useless and will not admit they wrongly took over our booking for the Adriatic Hotel from alpha rooms and sent us a patronising email suggesting we should have read the reviews.
Yes, we did, which is why we didn’t book the Adriatica Rooms.
We booked Adriatic Hotel and they’ve messed up.
They said we could pay for just the nights we’ve been there and move somewhere else.
They’ve clearly never tried to find a room in Dubrovnik in August. And even if we could we would never be able to afford it at short notice. They’ve not heard the end of this.

Dubrovnik is absolutely stunning but doesn’t need more than a couple of days.

Our itinerary and time in each place has been perfect and worth all the time spent researching.

We’ve loved Croatia, it’s so beautiful but it lacks personality. Looking forward to getting back to the craziness and character of Fethiye, Turkey. Nowhere ever comes close, although Croatia is definitely ‘up there’
We’ve missed crazy dolmus buses, people watching the world go by, tea houses, chickens, goats, Turkish fruit and veg, our friends and our pets.