Any place given that title by none other than Lord Byron himself has to be worth a visit!  I’d heard mixed reviews about Dubrovnik – beautiful, incredibly touristy, overrated – but I just had to see for myself.  And anyway, it’s yet another World Heritage Site to tick off my list!  🙂 I teamed, Read More

Instead of heading straight from Hvar to Dubrovnik, I caught another ferry to the island of Korcula, halfway between the two.  It had been recommended by a few different people I’d met and I wasn’t yet ready to leave the coast, sun and sea behind just yet. I was greeted at the boat by, Read More

With the northern part of my Eastern Europe trip behind me, it was time to hit the Balkans.  After so many stinking hot days in all the cities I was desperate to find a beach to lie on and a sea to swim in and so I made a bee-line straight for the island, Read More