We checked out of our apartment in Split and lugged the suitcases through the old town to the Car rental agency. We hired a Peugeot 508 for our sixth road trip since leaving home in March. We squeezed as much of our luggage and the kids luggage into the boot as we could and then piled the rest of it on top of the kids in the back seat. We drove for an hour to the Split airport and offloaded the kids and their luggage. It was then time for another goodbye. The ...

We had booked tickets for a ferry from Korcula to Hvar and we opened the email sent to us by the ferry company and followed their directions to where the ferry was to leave. There were a few other people there, but no signs anywhere indicating where the ferry was to leave from. Eventually Lidia walked over to the other side of the old town to a different port and found the ferry waiting there with a thousand people in the queue. She rushed back to us and we dra...

Our transfer picked us up at 10:00 to take us to the island of Korcula. There is a ferry direct to Korcula from Dubrovnik, but it only runs at 7:00am or 4:30pm and neither of those times suited us. The only alternative was to book a van to take us 2 hours along the coast to a town called Orebic and then a 20 minute ferry to Korcula. The ferry had two flights of long, steep, steel steps up to the lounge area and I had to carry the suitcases up there, one in each ...

A short flight from Rome took us to the stunning medieval city of Dubrovnik in Croatia. We landed at the airport and jumped into a taxi. The taxi driver asked for the address and I gave him the address of our apartment as listed on AirBNB. Turns out it wasn't an address, but it was written in Croatian so I couldn't tell. I rang the hostess, Petra, and she was one of these people who talks constantly and doesn't give you time to ask her questions or respond. Sh...

After braving the suicidal traffic on the bridges out of Trogir (I advised Lidia to close her eyes and hope for the best, because that is what I was doing), we started down the coast to Dubrovnik. This is a slow drive, much of it along the winding coastal roads where drivers feel they must do less than 50 the whole way. Add to this the fact that there are 2 border crossings 2 kms apart, where Bosnia owns a 2 km stretch of land, and you have quite a long drive. ...