I headed back into Croatia on Wednesday morning, leaving Mostar behind for the sunny Dalmatian town of Dubrovnik. Once again, the bus ride there offered some simply stunning views of the coastline - the Dalmatian coast is exremely dramatic (unlike me!) and is dotted with hundreds of islands out to sea. There are no hostles in Dubrovnik, and so as in Mostar your only option is to find some private accommodation - not difficult in one sense seen as hordes of old ...

What an brilliant first few days it has been!!! I was hoping that I could just make some passing reference to the trip out here on Wednesday, but is was so tiringly fantastic that I just gotta give it a mention! The flight from Stansted to Graz was delayed a bit, meaning that when I arrived in Austria I was to late for one of the airport busses, and then the next one didn't even bother showing up! The time spent hanging around was put to good use though as I g...