Flight to Dubrovnik

Wednesday, May 23 

Today was all about getting ourselves out of the rental flat, down to Easistore in Crawley to put our bag of English clothes in a storage locker, returning the rental car to the airport, and flying to Dubrovnik.

We flew Easy Jet from Gatwick. This budget airline was quite organized but we had about a 45 minute delay on the runway due to a baggage handler’s strike the day before at Gatwick. Nice enough plane and good leg space. About a 2 ½ hour journey. The exciting part for me was flying over the Alps. It was so different than flying over the Rockies! Many of the mountains seemed to have craters at the top filled with snow. It was quite amazing. I tried to get a picture, but its not very good.

We had arranged for a transfer from the airport to the hotel and as it was now quite dark, and it was now after 10:00 p.m. we were relieved to see a sign held up for “Elizabeth and Raymond Gillis!” Then it was a swift 20 minute drive from the airport to the Hostel Sol.

We are right on the water overlooking the Port of Dubrovnik. The hostel is amazing. Brand new, very clean, everything works, and it is all very modern.

We settled into our room, investigated the lounge area, and sipped our first Croatian beer. Wouldn’t you believe it that the first couple we spoke to were Canadians from Charlottetown, PEI, who were actually staying in Bosnia and Herzegovina, but had driven down for the day and an overnight!!