Gradac --> Dubrovnik
We arrived in Dubrovnik late in the afternoon, just enough time to unpack the car, have a quick beer and head off to the airport to pick up Ger. Our three days in Dubrovnik had been half planned for several weeks. By coincidence some of Yvonne's friends were going to be town for a wedding, and we'd also so we convinced Ger to come along, so it was bound to be a fun weekend. As a bonus Ger arranged all the accommodation (photo 1 is from our balcony), so all we had to do was turn up. Perfect.
All I'd really heard about Dubrovnik was that is was a walled city. Which sounded amazing to me, until I drove half way across Europe and realised that every second city is a walled city. Even so Dubrovnik was something special. For starters it was 'really' walled, I mean massive walls. We actually spent over an hour walking along the tops of the walls, pretty cool.Also, Dubrovnik had a nice beach. Well as far as Croatia goes, it was a nice beach. It was still very rocky, but the water was beautiful and sun was shining. Most evenings we started by drinking a lot of very cheap beer at home, before heading out for some dinner and quite a lot of not so cheap beer. Out first two nights were late ones, we met up with the wedding group and didn't make it home until after 3am both nights.
On the third day the weather turned bad and we took the chance for some recuperation. Ger flew out later that day and Yvonne and I had a quiet night in, getting ourselves ready for the following days ferry trip to Italy. Our time in Croatia had come to an end. When planning our trip, of all the European countries Croatia had certainly provoked the least of my curiosity. However, I can honestly say that our time on it's rocky coast line has provided some of our absolute highlights.
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