Monday, May 25, 2009

Dubrovnik

Our last stop was Dubrovnik which is a gorgeous town. There is a city wall around the old town so that is the first stop for most tourists. There was 3 massive cruise ships in at the time so Nathanael and I along with several thousand other people decided to head to the old town and do the walk around the wall. Here's a pic from the wall.

After all that hard work we caught up with some of our new mates from the boat and decided to get a 3 litre beer that Nate had seen a sign for earlier. So here's Nate and Greg with the beer thingo. Pretty cool.

After that we went to meet up with the rest of the crew at Buza which is this bar on the side of the cliff. You can have a drink or go for a swim down the bottom. It's pretty awesome and would totally never happen in Australia. Booze and swimming would just mean trouble. Anyway the place is hard to explain and also hard to take photos of so hope you can tell from this picture below. This was as one of the cruise ships passed by.

And here's one i took from the bottom of the cliff as some guys were jumping from the top. I couldn't watch the first guy do it but after he didn't die I figured it was probably ok to take a photo of the next one.

That night we had dinner and went and drank at some bar in town. I'd tell you more but i can't remember! All I know is I ate a hot dog so I must have been drunk. Anyway, apparently it was a good night. On the way back to the boat though we stopped for one last drink near the harbour and got trapped in a lock in. We had no idea what was going on but they basically turned off the lights and locked the door! We weren't keen to stay and they were not impressed that we wanted to leave. She didn't even care that we didn't pay. It was very weird.

So they next day we said goodbye to everyone from the boat and went to find our accommodation which proved fairly impossible. We eventually made it after I asked some Croatian dude in a shop to call them for me. It's difficult because it was a room at someone's house (which is very common in Croatia and a few other places) and it was down some street that wasn't actually a street it was just some stairs that ran between two streets. Crazy!

Anyway, when we got there it had this shower so we were happy again. I think Nate had 3 showers in 24 hours. haha

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