3 more sleeps. It’s getting close.
The last few days have been spent clearing out rooms of our house in time for the building Reno’s to start while we are away. Living in an old Tudor on reactive soils = cracks. Not too bad really, but they will detract from future sale so we need to get those repaired and then painted. Yesterday ordered carpet for the rooms and which will be installed when we get back so I don’t have to do the furniture shuffle twice. Bedroom a mess and an Monday the guys are coming in to cover all our gorgeous floorboards. And of course SA Power Networks have advised an all day power blackout for maintenance so all the business stuff will need to be done Sunday. And washing last minute in Tuesday. Lucky the flight leaves around 10.15pm.
But this morning I’m updating all the travel plans.
We’d been to Dubrovnik and Kotor on a large cruise ship and the scenery is simply stunning. We’d had friends, multiple friends, who had caught ferries from place to place along the coast. Extremely popular with young Aussies too. Not that this is necessarily a good thing coz they party, hard. And of course I’m a GoT tragic and seeing all these places shown in the series was fabulous. Winter is coming
So we, well, I started looking around for a similar option but one where we didn’t have to keep packing and unpacking. There are party boats that are great value, but we are not that crowd. We are too old. Like to sleep. Etc etc. So it seems the natural divide is by cost of the ‘cruise’. Lots of googling and we finally settled on MV President which is a vessel that has around 30 passengers, usually older, who like their comfort and sleep. It was easy to book via an Australian Croatian website and the booking was done. Clearly I didn’t research the detailed itinerary that well, just the backbone, and was surprised in a nice way, at how many included tours there are.
The concept of this vessel is the complete opposite to the large cruises in this area. (I’d originally looked at a Croatian cruise on a Celebrity ship but that was heavily booked months out and there was a weirdness in that booking so we ended up not going. This cruise sails out of Venice which we’ve already done but it’s such a fabulous experience so happy to do it again, however that didn’t come to pass.). So our booked cruise is docked overnight, you spend the evening on land and enjoying the local foods, come back to sleep and in the morning there might be another land activity or you start to motor towards the next place. Go for a swim off the aft. Have lunch onboard then in the afternoon, dock, venture out for dinner and so on.
Ironically the Celebrity ship is in Dubrovnik on the day our baby ship will be also.
Our schedule now is that we fly out of Milan via Zurich on Swiss Air to Dubrovnik. We’ve paid for an apartment that has a washing machine which will be great after several days travel. The next day we board the ship as follows:
Day 1 Dubrovnik
Embarkation is from 14.00hrs. After settling in to your cabin, meet your fellow passengers and cruise manager for a welcome drink, and then venture out to explore the walled, medieval city of Dubrovnik.
So Dinner in Dubrovnik (for 2 nights)
PixaBay has fantastic free downloadable images. I will have my own soon but reckon I can’t better these.
Any others I can find are either buses or 400+ euros.
