Day 79 Beauty in sights!

Friday 08/06/2018 Rooms Monika 1 Ulica od Nuncijate, Gruz, Dubrovnik, 20000, Croatia

The plan for today was a drive around looking at the sights then this arvo go fir a sunset cruise....
A bit of a slow start again, great having a toaster first one all trip... no one has toasters, tongs, egg slides are rare and microwaves even rarer.....we occasionally get a little of each but I haven’t had all in one place, but this us the first toaster yeahhhhh.....however is didn’t use it this morning I used it after we returned, having cooked some porridge in a saucepan as no microwave here.....

Then off we headed.... first around the bay north of us, trying to find a spot to pull up at to take some shots of the massive tall ship on the outer side of the bridge, it was too tall to go under it... however there are no pull up stops and we couldn’t find a road down to the waters edge they just don’t seem to exist either... they must be there somewhere otherwise how do people get to their homes... maybe walking.... got us beat, so on we had to go, we could see a nice little cove around a bay in the distance so we headed for that after finding no roads to access off or from the right hand side of road..... there were accesses but you could not go down them from the our side a whole white line down the middle road, so no crossing... eventually we arrived at the cove and yes it had access and yes it looked amazing and yes it had restaurants, a store a post office, views to die for and a quiet tranquil atmosphere. Perfect... so we headed straight to the restaurant for a cuppa and cake which John wanted but instead had cheesecake... we sat for about an hour it was so lovely just being in the moment and looking at the most Beautiful coloured bay... a few Yachts, smaller boats, a couple of mini tall ships, but mostly only a few people and quietness abounding.....

After our sit and relax, John had spotted a walking track to a cave so off we went to find the cave... we found a cemetery and old chapel, lots of tall pins like in Italy, and the most beautiful bays that dotted the coast line here.... but never did find the cave.., what we did find was the prettiest little bay that just beckoned us to come and swim in, only thing was you had to climb down quite a steep path with lose stones, thank goodness we wore our boots. We managed to scramble down and yes even though the first hit of the water was very cold fir me it was magic to actually go in to this pristine spot where you know there is no sewage being pumped in.... looking at everyone in Montenegro’s main beach, and around the old city in Dubrovnik you know and can smell the stink of the sewage being pumped in and heaps of people swimming in it... they can keep those spots....

We tried one last time to find the cave but no luck, so back we go....it was lunch time by now so back to the quiet restaurant in the waters edge... funny while sitting there we watched a couple arrive with their dingy from their yacht and tie it up to the post on the edge of the restaurant..... looked a bit like trying up the horse to the post outside a pub... they settled in for their meal we had ours then sadly we had to have...

We headed back into main Dubrovnik and drove around the streets checking out sights, bays, the old city in areas we headed seen by foot... tried to find the lookouts up on the main road and somehow ended up back near our place. So we pulled up had a kip... a cuppa then off again to find sunset spots... we did manage to find out if the way roads above the old city, but by now it was very cloudy so the views over its bay were hindered by not a lot light. At the very back behind the islands you could see the sun setting but not where I needed the light...

It was a funny place we pulled up at to see the sun setting, it as a disused road looked like there were 2 of them not that far above the old city, it had buses parked near the top section of it, cars parked all along it, only a few houses and just past where the buses were and nothing else was except what a John said was an abandoned hotel. Not in use anymore. Looks like the road must have gone to this at one stage a great road with cemented sure walls the whole way along... below at the next road was bustling Dubrovnik with hotels, apartment and restaurants plus the crazy traffic, but this road and the one above dead no cars, no people except for a few you blokes parked at the end... and on ever section of these roads were cats..... mongrel things, they are everywhere in Dubrovnik, better than abandon digs like back in Montenegro.... same as Asia either digs, or cats abandoned al skinny scrawny things, diseased ridden the lot... as I was taking a pic over the Old city this mongrel car sat looking at me I was sure he was going to go for the throat, well that’s the look he had.... I couldn’t get close enough to the wall due to him being there... he sat for ages watching me, eventually he moved on but only a few feet where he met another cat they both looked like it was fight time...so time for us to go... Dubrovnik has too many stairs, too many cats, and the smell of raw sewage is very apparent, reminds me if Thailand. And like many Asian countries you aren’t meant to flush the loo paper their sewage systems just can cope with it... trouble is before I remembering have put it in the loo not the stinky basket that’s usually over flowing and knocks you out when it’s hot from the string urine odours.. the joys of travel.... but in all honesty it is these things that to me make travel so interesting seeing how other countries lifestyle is so very different from ours.... Some not everyone but some people think ours is the only way of life and to us it is... but to the rest of the world no it’s not so much of what we do is from our very proper English background, but fir many who come to Australia to live the cultural differences are huge and they have to adapt so much... we want them to do as we do, but when you have lived and been bought up with a completely different set of values, beliefs and cultural understanding it’s a very big ask to change in the blink of an eye.... I think that’s why I love travel it’s seeing life through other eyes and trying to understand why they do what they do....

As I said to John about Montenegro 🇲🇪 I loved it the careless attitude to life, but we saw so many I mean many young men that could so easily look like they come from Aust except for the lingo, their dress their modern hairstyles and carefree attitudes, but they seem lost like no direction, that when you have many cultures so close together is when unrest happens and civil wars happen... they need purpose and direction.... I know this is in every country but because we are isolated to other world influences that in real truth don’t touch us closely only at a distance, these other countries and cultures I can see how it occurs why it happens... like how Isis can get young guys to join them, when they are all lost fir direction they give it to them... we need to be praying more for our young men of the world for direction and purpose... can it happen yes it can, will it happen I tend to think not but let’s not turn blind eyes because ultimately it will touch our lives in different ways than here, but still will make an impact...

Ok my philosophical lecture is over onto our day, so we finished staring at cats and seeing the sun go behind the clouds , so headed home... meat and cheese platter today and yep I get to use the toaster again... we sat and watched the world go by in the very busy Hwy....

Another days activities successful and no we didn’t get to do the cruise and no we didn’t get to do the touristy tours here, but we did get to see around the Old City, we did get to walk the streets of other areas of Dubrovnik, we drove up, down, around inside and out of the Dubrovnik streets, bays and out of the way small areas most wouldn’t see unless you had a car..... it is an unreal spot, the views are unreal, and the colour of the water amazing...... so, so glad we came...Читать далее