Life's about experiences. These are mine.
We’ve been to Dubrovnik once before, in 2015, and remember it as an attractive but busy place to visit. Like Split, it apparently has some connection to Game of Thrones which attracts visitors but, again, I still have no idea what that is. We risked incurring the wrath of the local taxi firms by once …
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The last time we did this cruise back in 2015 Zadar wasn’t on the menu and we went to Venice. Now, of course, Venice isn’t as welcoming to tourists and certainly not those arriving by cruise ship so our destination was Zadar in Croatia instead. Coastal Installations The only thing I knew about Zadar was …
The first stop on this cruise is Split, Croatia a pretty city that attracts Game of Thrones devotees for reasons I cannot explain having never seen it. Uber Wars The first challenge was getting from the ship to the town, a relatively short distance but too far for my parents to manage. No problem I …
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I know that it is not for everyone but we really like a trip on a cruise ship. I think that there are several reasons for that – firstly there is no opportunity to get bored as you visit somewhere different every day and secondly, it is all-inclusive – food, drinks, entertainment, bed the whole …
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Now that I am back home and have wifi that doesn’t run at a snails pace I have been able to upload a selection of photos from the trip for your viewing pleasure. Enjoy! [AFG_gallery id=’17’]
Our second day in Croatia was spent in Dubrovnik, somewhere we have been wanting to visit for many years. Today we were berthed some three miles away from the old town and we had three transport options: local bus, taxi or Shanks’s pony and we chose the former. Like sheep we followed everyone else off …
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Today we started to wind our way down back down the coast towards our final destination of Corfu with a stop at Split, Croatia. Unlike Venice yesterday, today the boat docked within walking distance of the old part of the city so we were able to have a leisurely start to the day. Like many …
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