HaveBeen: Citytrip - Dubrovnik (Croatia)

The next destination of our Balkan Trip was Dubrovnik, in Croatia. To get from Mostar to Dubrovnik you can take a bus that will take about 4 hours and drives a beautiful route along the coast. During the route we passed the border three times and each time a police officer came into the bus to check our passports. Some passports were barely looked at while some were taken at random to be checked at his office. Turns out we were lucky to be able to stay seated, if the officer had had a bad day we all could have been asked to leave the bus and have our passports checked one by one, which of course lasts much longer.

 

 

 

 

 

 

We stayed in Dubrovnik for just one night so we booked a simple hostel (one which I would defininitely not reccomend) close to the city centre. After the nice appartments we had in Bosnia this was a dissapointment. I stayed in quite a lot of hostels all over Europe, and I know they really can be better (especially since this one was not even a very cheap hostel). Luckily it was just one night.
We left our things at the hostel and got ready for sightseeing again. As you can see on the pictures, the weather was already pretty bad by then (this was at the time Bosnia and Serbia were being flooded).

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dubrovnik has a lovely city cenre, full of cute norrow streets and small cobble stones (I bet it even looks better when there is sun). You could wander through these Streets for hours, just exploring the many small cafes, shops, old buildings and restaurants. There is definitely no lack of beautiful scenery and lovely views.  

 

 

 

 

The city is for a large part surrounded by the sea, which gives many amazing viewing points. The harbor of Dubrovnik is absolutely great with its many small boats and the view of hills full of white houses with red roofs. You can walk along the water and get some good fresh air or just sit on a bench and watch the waves (which were pretty wild in our case). It's a very peacefull place and I could imagine sitting here for hours, staring at the water or reading a book.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 At night we did not do much more than looking for a nice place to have dinner and drinking a cocktail afterwards. Plenty of opportunities for both. The food here is not as cheap as in Bosnia (and probably not as cheap as in Croatia some years ago), but prices are pretty okay considering that it's a very touristic city. After our cocktail we walked around some more. The city is also pretty lovely by night, it has a really nice athmosphere. It's that kind of athmosphere that sea cities often have, where the sky is very dark and clear, you can see all the stars and smell the sea. All in all, it was a lovely day.

 

 

 

 

 

 

The next morning we went out for breakfast. Bad bad choice in my case. I ate a tuna sandwhich that probably had tuna on it that had gone bad. I had an hour or so more to do some sight seeing before it kicked in and I managed to take some Duckioso photos before things started going dowhill.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I was unlucky to get sick just several hours before our flight to Zagreb. And I was still sick after we arrived there. That was not a great trip. The only good thing about it was that the flight just lasted 40 minutes. According to our taxi driver it happens a lot that tourists get food poisoning from the food in Zagreb. Especially the fish. So be warned. I will be avoiding tuna for a long long time.