Dubrovnik; Saturday, 10 May, 2008

Six AM on a Saturday morning is not a time I normally like to be familiar with, and originally I wouldn't of had to be, but BA had moved the flight forward by two hours from the time I originally booked, and so bleary eyed I set off for Gatwick Airport.

A couple of uneventful hours later the plane landed at Dubrovnik airport and I got my first stamp in my new passport (all the more impressive given that I have had this passport for over three years!) Through the airport fast and onto the shuttle bus into the city.

Being lazy I grabbed a cab in the city centre for the short journey up the hill to the hotel. After checking in changing into shorts, and applying a healthy slathering of sun block, I headed back down the hill into the heart of the medieval old town.

I had a long wander through the ancient streets of the walled old town, stopping to visit the Rectors Palace museum and then pausing for a late afternoon drink in the sun in a bar opposite. After my refreshment break, I continued to have a wander around the old town and the harbour.

By the time I next looked at my watch it was rapidly approaching 8PM and time for some dinner, which I had in a small restaurant in a side street off of the main street in the old town.

With a very nice dinner inside me I had a little bit more of a wander, stopping for a very nice ice-cream, before finally finding myself at the bus stop for the bus back up the hill to the hotel, and the welcoming thought of a comfy bed.