It rained off and on for a few days, and was getting chilly, so we spent a couple of hours looking at weather forecasts and checking plane flights and ferry schedules. We decided to cut the Croatian section of the trip short by two days, and start the Greece section…
I guess I’ve gotten too comfortable with driving like a European. I’ve seen several speed traps along the way, but never seen anyone pulled over. They were waiting for the dumb American to get over-confident. I was going 72 in a 60 km zone. We got close to the Dubrovnik…
The “must-do” of Dubrovnik is to walk the walls. There are only 3 stairways up to the ramparts. The most obvious one is next to the main entrace at Pile Gate, and it rises to the ramparts very close to the highest point of the walls. The stairway is one…
Massive and Formidable. Massive and Elegant. Massive and Impregnable. Massive and Dainty. Massive and Loved to Death. Toss out your Disney, throw off your Hollywood, forget your storybooks. They simply can’t carry the weight of Dubrovnik, and I’m not only referring to the walls that are 20 feet of solid…
I know you’re tired of the superlatives by now. Charlie’s jaw dropped again. Big deal. He must be exaggerating. Sheesh, man, get over it. Split, Croatia almost never made the list. One of our early winnowing techniques during research was to look at the first few dozen photos of a…
I’m not sure I can take anymore. Every time I think, “Okay, Croatia has shown me everything it’s got. I’m going to get used to it now and the world around me will feel normal again,” the country upends my brain pan again. We entered the alternate universe called Plitvice…
