The next
morning (Monday 11th of June) I woke up at 6 am and left 6.15 to walk
towards the bus station and buy a ticket to 7 am bus to Dubrovnik. The ticket
cost me 128 kn and the bus left 20 minutes late at 7.20. At the border crossing
one woman and a boy were thrown out from the bus since they didn’t have visas. We
stopped in Neum for 20 minutes for toilet and snack break. The bus arrived on
time to Dubrovnik and from the main bus station it was around 2.5-3 km to the
Old town, so I took a local bus towards the Old town for 12 kn (bought from the
kiosk). I got off one stop before the main gate of Old Town, at the University
stop and my hostel was literally on the other side of the street.
The room
was a 4-bed room (no bunkbeds) and the owner was a bit untidy looking man that
explained stuff to me in a fast forward mode. I left out for a walk, it took me
around 5 minutes to reach the main gate and oh it was packed with tourists. I
walked through the city walls to the old port and went to find this coffee /
bar called Buza that I had seen pictures of. It was basically build outside of
those walls in the ocean side.. There were some young British lads jumps of
from rocks to the ocean which was a nice entertainment for the people there.
The view from the place was pretty nice!
After I was starving so I went to eat
at this place within the walls. I had a little bit of a headache, but I still
wanted to start climbing to the hill where you could get also with this Cable
car thing. THAT WAS A CRAZY DECICION! I started making my way up and there were
so many stairs.. I thought I was already heading there nicely until I noticed
that the path leading there hadn’t even started yet.. It took me maybe 20
minutes (with picture taking breaks) to reach to the starting point of the
path. And then the hell started. No steps but this path heading up little by
little. I started recording videos but towards the end my humour stopped,
and I was struggling in the heat. My water run out and I was exhausted, and it
never seemed to end. I did make it tho! All in all the whole climb took me
maybe just bit over an hour. I was red as a tomato when I entered the
restaurant up top. People calling me madam there and I looked like shit in that
fancy place.. The view was pretty ok 😉 I drank a 5-6€ small Coke there and
decided that my legs were way too shaky to walk back down. I took the cable car
back down and it cost me somewhere between 84-86 kn one way.
The place
where the cable car landed was still some walk away from the main gate. I was
so so sweaty I decided that what ever it takes (except for climbing) I wanna
find a beach to go for a swim. I walked towards my hostel and from the Sesame
restaurant I took a left and just walked towards to ocean in between the narrow
streets. I ended up in a cemetery. Eventually I found the rocky place were
there were mostly locals and good places to dip in! Perfect! It was so
refreshing!! After I tried to dry a little and enjoy the view and the crystal
clear water I walked a bit back towards the old town and found a place to eat
since I was starving! Shower and then headed back to wander in the old town.
Quickly I realized I was hungry once again and went to eat again :D While
waiting for my food I bought a ticket to Kotor, Montenegro paying 112 kn.
The
website I had used to whole trip was called getbybus.com the only minus was
that if you bought it online you needed to print the ticket somewhere.. I went
to bed rather early around eleven o’clock and didn’t even wake up when my
roommates from Chile came in.
On 12th
of June I woke up feeling rather fresh and good. Packed my stuff and left my bag
back under this on table and gave my key back. I wandered towards the Old town
and I place I had asked to print my ticket. It cost me 10 kn to print two sheets
of paper. Then it was omelet time and then to the same “beach” place. I
couldn’t decide whether or not to stay another night in Dubrovnik so I had solved
it by leaving in the afternoon so I had the whole morning time to chill by the
water. Finally, after all them cloudy days (still warm tho!) they had promised
a clear blue sky and sun! Well. Cloudy it was of course but I still went to
swim and enjoyed just chilling and laying. After my patience ran out of staying
still I once more decided to go to the Old town and I had spotted a restaurant
with gluten free options, so I headed there for a Spagetti. (I tried to eat
accordingly while travelling but I wasn’t that strict if I wanted to drink one
beer for example since my stomach didn’t come that sick after).
Then around
two o’clock I walked back to the hostel, rang the bell, took my bag and walked
15 seconds to the nearest bus stop. It took maybe 10-15 minutes to reach the
main bus station and I was there 14.35 (early as always..). So I went for ice
coffee in this coffee place (their ice coffees always comes with one scoop of
ice cream and cream). I headed to bus station at 15.05 and for once the bus
came early. I was the first one to put my stuff and first one to choose the
seat. I wanted it of course from the right side of the bus with a sea view all
the way. Here you always need to pay extra if you put your bag “under the bus”.
Same way as the air companies nowadays charge you extra. I only had 7kn or a
big 100kn note, so the guy took my 7 kn instead of 10kn..
The bus
left on time and the drive went smoothly but oh god them border checking’s.
Yes, checking’s. If you zoom the map you can see that there are two borders in
between there is someone’s land there. At the first border we were 60 minutes
and the next one maybe 20-30 minutes. One by one they took all the people out
from the bus and walk to the passport control then walk over the border to wait
for the bus to pick us up. Ridiculous and so slow! I did get a stamp to my
passport tho! 😊The bus took this ferry boat thing
to cross over and eventyally we arrived in Kotor (via Tivat first.) an hour
late at 19.00.
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