21 hours to get here..well worth the journey!

So I left SFO at 4:50pm on British Airways..surprisingly my flight was on time and not delayed! I arrived in Heathrow at 11am then had three hours to transfer airports over to Gatwick to catch my 2:15pm flight to Split, Croatia AND then from there catch a flight to Dubrovnik. No, they don´t make it easy to get down to the Dalmation Coast. I finally landed at the Dubrovnik airport where a Croatia Airlines bus took me to the Old Town of Dubrovnik for 35 kunas (6 kunas=$1). In Dubrovnik awaits a homey room with private bath in the home of Lidija or at least that´s what she said in her email to me. With my 25 pound backpack..I wander the streets of the Old Town looking for her place..found the street..looked up..STAIRS..steep steep stairs and lots of them! It was 10pm and the last thing I wanted to do was climb those stairs but heck..I rang the doorbell and Lidija answered with her dog Kitty (boy)..Kitty´s nose was stuck to my jeans..I think she smelled Red. Anyway..Lidija was right..she had a very nice welcoming room waiting for me and not bad for 125 kunas a night.

I spent the next day at one of Dubrovnik´s beaches..the water was nice and very clear- definitely beats Aquatic Park water! It was sunny enough to stay there but too windy to do any type of serious sun tanning..I fell asleep for 3 hours on the pebbles of the beach..listening tot he waves and wind of the Adriatic Coast..can´t get much better than this right? I spent the afternoon walking the Wall of Dubrovnik and its amazing to see what parts of the Old Town the war in 1992 damaged.

Dubrovnik a gem!

Dubrovnik is definitely a place to visit..its small and you can walk from one end of the town to the other in about 10 minutes but the scenery and culture there is unforgettable!