The time has come, and not a moment too soon... we can't keep up this 3 countries in the last 3 days routine for long (Montenegro, Croatia, Bosnia). We finished packing this morning, lounged about the apartment because the 10 am 'chuck-out' passed with no-one around and eventually took our last 63 kunas in the world down to the same cafe we ate at on Day 1 - Presa. Just the next street over from the apartment and slightly off the Old Town beaten track, we were ...

We're not sure how any of them afford it but it seems in Summer Dubrovnik is infested with tourists - and in Winter it's alive with cats. It's lucky we're cat-people - much more so than people-people to be honest. We are finding it hard to comprehend how this tiny jewelbox of a walled city can even begin to cope when 10,000 people descend off cruise ships in one day (and it happens day after day after day!) It's comfortably busy at the moment by our standards - t...

For us southern hemisphere types the lure of a wintry, sparkling Christmas time can be irresistable - and so, with a couple of weeks spare between Ireland and Italy we figured 'why not' - Croatia here we come! Zagreb is really rolling out the Christmas carpet having won the award for Best Christmas Markets in Europe 2 years running - they are very keen to win again this year and the effort they've put in is incredible. We read somewhere that if you can't get in...