Hello from Dubrovnik! And it is lovely to again be blogging from the road less travelled (by me,I mean, plenty of people have been to Dubrovnik before, being as the city was founded way back in the 7th century). Christmas was a brilliant and bustling affair, filled with family and friends and wine and food and, yes, glory of all things glorious-we had a white Christmas! All our finger crossing and hoping paid off and we spent the day surrounded by plenty of the white, cold fluffy stuff. We tried valiantly to build a snow man on Christmas day but alas the snow was far too powdery and we ended up with a sort of eroding snow mound. Adam put snow down the back of my coat and this made him feel better, I was mildly unimpressed but it's Christmas- what can you do?? The 26th and 27th were spent eating leftover turkey and ham, planning the rest of our trip ( as we hadn't booked our transport out of croatia until two days ago- last minute much?) and we even squeezed a quick trip into oxford for a smidge of window shopping and we watched the new narnia film, the voyage of the dawn treader (loved it!). It was actually very fitting as we saw the movie at a cinema called the odean which is only a few hundred meters from the eagle and child pub where c.s.Lewis used to meet with j.r.r.tolkein and they used to talk, drink and create their works of genius- how fitting! And then on the 28th we headed to gatwick airport where we met up with Stacey (hurrah!) and boarded a plain bound for Croatia! We left the foggiest of chilly and snowy England mornings and only two and a half hours later descended over the blue Adriatic sea, touching down on the runway which was dazzling in the most glorious sunshine with not a single cloud in the sky (no joke- I looked really hard and couldn't find even one). We caught a bus from the airport to Dubrovnik itself and the bus ride took us along the cliffs winding towards the town and we had the most beautiful sunset and then got our first look at Dubrovnik itself. I'm going to make a super big claim here (warning!) and say that Dubrovnik might just be the most beautiful city in Europe. It is glorious. The walls around old town are so impressive and majestic, the marble streets are imperial and beautiful, the monastery and cathedral are works of art, and the coastline itself rivals any I've seen anywhere. Seriously love this place. We are staying in a tiny self serviced apartment right next to pile gate and from here we walked to the other side of 'new' town yesterday for a touch of grocery shopping and a look about, then cruised through the old town feeling glamorous and fabulous before watching the sun set. And today we are off to scale and walk the city walls- so without further ado I shall end here, have some Croatian corn flakes for breakfast and put on my hiking boots! Happy new years to all of you- may 2011 bring happiness, adventures and joy!
Love Lauren the lava flow and Adam the Adriatic
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