After departing the ever-sketchy Albania, which is a country that also has blood fueds meaning people can murder someone else as long as they tell that persons family and that then in turn entitles them to murder a member of the murderer's family (messed), we made our way through the entire country of Montenegro in a day (tiny but beautiful country) to get to Dubrovnik for another mini vacation and three-day stop in Dubrovnik. MASSIVE fan of Croatia/Dubrovnik!! Totally recommend a visit here. And yes I will admit that the title of this blog post is true: I like Croatia better than I liked Greece. Although in all fairness to greece, I didn't get to visit santorini and experience the white houses on cliffs (aka everyone's typical vision of Greece). The scenery here is absolutely gorgeous and it was amazing to see the old town of dubrovnik. People still live inside the walls btw.
Yesterday started with a tour from a guide that had actually been a young girl in Dubrovnik when there was war going on here back in the early nineties. She actually got hostages in her own city and shared her stories with us which was pretty amazing. Everything has also been completely rebuilt so you can't even tell that anything had really even gone on there. Then we went on a boat tour between the croatian islands (water was a tad colder than I expected I admit) and stopped for some seafood along the way too. Body wasn't a fan of this driver's driving and totally got sea sick. Boo! Therefore I decided to take the night off.
Today was a late breakfast and total free day. Took my time and then made my way into town with Rebecca to walk the city walls (amazing but terrible idea to do at noon; I think parts of my face sweat off). Gt some gelato to cool off and then chilled by the water while waiting for our romantic sunset sea kayaking adventure. Best. Idea. Ever. Our tour guide kept stopping to tell us stories which was pretty cool. Seem that back in the day when Dubrovnik was a big port city used for trade, any new people coming into the town had to go into quarantine for forty days to make sure they wouldn't contaminate the town. Stopped for sandwiches and snorkeling in a sea cave and also got to try some sea urchin. Didn't taste like anything special. Also got to see a nudist beach that had one man on it who was bottomless. Like who chills out bottomless? I could even understand being completely nude, but no. Saw a fantab sunset and went home to pass out.
One more driving day in Croatia and then off to Budapest.
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