Today is our last day in Dubrovnik, and our first chance to sleep in, enjoying the luxury of sea view rooms in Hotel Argentina. A leisurely champagne buffet breakfast (we had somehow missed the champagne bottles the last two mornings) on the terrace over looking the old town, was followed by a stroll through the grounds. The gardens of this hotel are magnificent, and if anyone has seen the gardens in the Game of Thrones from the tropical countries, you will under...

Today we were picked up, not by a mini van as advised but by a car and young male driver. The trip was two and half hours to Dubrovnik, via the ferry from yesterday. It was a little like travelling in NZ with scenery changing throughout the trip, from steep rocky mountainous terrain, to hidden valleys of agriculture, and historic towns. the last part of the drive was like travelling through a series of fiords in NZ. The driver was very smooth and after an initial...