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After yesterday's outing to Mostar we have now crossed the land border between Croatia and Bosnia Herzegovina 6 times, each time taking anywhere between 0 and 45 mins. On one occasion coming back into Croatia from Bosnia, a car raced pass us just as we were approaching the vehicle lanes at the check point. As it approached the first crossing from Bosnia, it drove straight through. As he reached he second checkpoint entering Croatia, he handed the policeman in the booth a plastic bag and drove through. When our driver asked the policeman what it was all about, it seems the guy was delivering ice creams to the border police. We can only speculate what else he had in the boot of the car.
Today we walked around the city walls, and with a reasonable cloud cover and a moderate wind, together with very few people, it was almost a pleasure climbing the stairs and walking the parapets. After a midday snooze, we ventured out again and were confronted with multiple tour groups from cruise ships filling the streets, so we decided to take a final turn around the city after dinner.
Dubrovnik is, as reported, ridiculously expensive. In Split, a meal of Sea Bass was around 120kn and here we saw it for 180kn. (Approx 4kn =$A1). Fridge magnets 35kn here and 15kn for the same item in Split. 20kn for a cappuccino. So we really appreciate having an apartment with a small kitchen and a well stocked supermarket with salads, fruit, cheese and prosciutto nearby and a bakery around the corner.
What better way to end the day than a gelato and a stroll around the town when all the tour groups have gone. We also bumped into three people that we sat next to while having dinner in Split and chatted to them for a while. So we will leave Dubrovnik well and truly satisfied that all the boxes have been ticked, save for the cable car ride up to the top of yet another mountain for an astronauts eye view of Dubrovnik, if not the entire peninsula. That apparently will be squeezed in between checking out in the morning and getting the local bus down to the port to find our bed for the next 7 nights.
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