Somewhere around six months ago, I was sitting in my apartment talking on the phone with my mom. From just outside my window I could hear Buddhist monks chanting at Ninnaji, an enormous wooden temple […]
KaZantip 2011: Black Sea Paradise
Warning: This post contains a few NSFW photos. View only in good company 🙂 The Republic of KaZantip, the legendary Eastern European Shangri La of parties, lasts for just one month a year in a […]
Ladies and gentlemen, I’m pleased to announce that this post officially marks the first time in almost two years that I’m actually writing about the country I’m in! Welcome, at long last, to Cambodia 😀
Warning This post contains some graphic images. If blood makes you queasy, you may want to skip it. I’ve mentioned a few times how, although I do travel mostly without plans, I also do so […]
Peder and I left our pousada in Trancoso and started out for our day’s 30 km walk at around 11am. The plan was to follow the coast all the way to Arraial d’Ajuda, a neighboring […]
At long last, I made it to Petra. Petra is a place that’s intrigued me since before I even knew its name – since I first saw Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade as a […]
The only problem – a relatively minor one – with leaving Dubrovnik a day earlier than planned was that after my previous day’s kayak trip, I’d just withdrawn a load of Croatian Kuna, a currency which was about to become useless.
Oops.
Hopefully I can find another traveler willing to make an exchange before I get too far away from the region.
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Because I only spent one brief day in one city of Croatia, I won’t do my usual “Observations” post. Instead, just a few short notes that didn’t make it into either of the preceding entries…
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Somewhere around 8am the following morning, Ivan, the owner of my little villa, came knocking at my door. He was in a panic.
Wait…let me first give you a small bit of history.
A few posts ago, I mentioned that I’d agreed to my Dubrovnik lodging perhaps a bit too hastily – hopping into Ivan’s car before examining the other options, costs, and locations as thoroughly as I should have. Yet there was one thing I was absolutely clear about: I must have unlimited, free, high-speed wifi in my room. “Yes yes, no problem OK” he confirmed several times.
I’m sure you can see where this is going.
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On my way out of the barbershop I happened to notice a sign for sea kayaking – one of the activities on my list for the Adriatic – so I wandered down to the waterfront to inquire about the price and schedule. Though a tad on the expensive side, the tour was leaving at that very moment, and as the weather seemed to be clearing up I figured the timing was about as perfect as it would get.
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The city of Dubrovnik is composed of two unique parts – the Old City, a relatively small and dense cluster of stone buildings surrounded completely by ancient city walls, and the “main” new city, which sprawls across one side of a steep mountain for several kilometers along the coast. Although the main reason everyone comes to Dubrovnik is for the Old City, personally I found the new city to be quite enjoyable as well.
Because of its perch on the face of such a steep mountain, the main vehicular roads through Dubrovnik run laterally, traversing their way slowly upwards. This works fine for cars, but would take ages by foot if you had to walk back and forth for miles just to access your home straight above you – so the roads are supplemented by countless little walking paths which allow pedestrians to climb directly to any point in the city, via thousands and thousands of stairs.
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