Life's about experiences. These are mine.
Once more we were back in a place that we had visited previously – Kotor, Montenegro. This time, however, we didn’t feel we needed to get up at 06:30 to see the views as we sailed in – as beautiful as they are. We also didn’t feel the need to walk up to the fortress …
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We’ve been to Dubrovnik once before, in 2015, and remember it as an attractive but busy place to visit. Like Split, it apparently has some connection to Game of Thrones which attracts visitors but, again, I still have no idea what that is. We risked incurring the wrath of the local taxi firms by once …
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The last time we did this cruise back in 2015 Zadar wasn’t on the menu and we went to Venice. Now, of course, Venice isn’t as welcoming to tourists and certainly not those arriving by cruise ship so our destination was Zadar in Croatia instead. Coastal Installations The only thing I knew about Zadar was …
We’ve been to Koper before back in 2015 but last time we didn’t linger but got a bus down the coast to nearby Piran. This time we went into the town itself and found two things: firstly, it has a very attractive square with a church and fine fronted castle-y building and secondly, it is …
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The first stop on this cruise is Split, Croatia a pretty city that attracts Game of Thrones devotees for reasons I cannot explain having never seen it. Uber Wars The first challenge was getting from the ship to the town, a relatively short distance but too far for my parents to manage. No problem I …
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I know that it is not for everyone but we really like a trip on a cruise ship. I think that there are several reasons for that – firstly there is no opportunity to get bored as you visit somewhere different every day and secondly, it is all-inclusive – food, drinks, entertainment, bed the whole …
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