I woke up and realised I was still on our ferry to Dubrovnik. So we went down to have breakfast. What I find weird is that you needed breakfast tickets to have breakfast. Even though the breakfast wasn't very good. I had a piece of toast, some ham, an egg, some orange juice and a bowl of bad cereal. As we walked off the boat I had no what adventures I was about to have…
OFF THE BOAT
When we got off the boat mum hired a TAXI to the fire station, why you ask, because next to the fire station on the fifty-sixth steep upward steps was the seventh room of our apartment which is where we were staying in Dubrovnik.
Whoa that took the breath out of me, not only that last sentence but also climbing the fifty-six stairs. When we did get there we had to wait a long time for Gloria (the apartment owner) to come and give us the key. When she finally got here she showed us around the house. While we were outside I spotted a cute little wooden tortoise, but wait, it wasn't wooden as it stretched out its head I felt a strange bond to it.
Wallace eats some apple
We made it a house. It was made out of a plank of wood, two dustpans, a terracotta roof tile, some flowers, some tiles, some cement, two jars of paint and a glass bowl. The plank of wood was the roof. The dustpans leaned on the terracotta roof tile to keep the tortoise from escaping out the back. The terracotta roof tile was the back wall. The flowers were her bed. The tiles were cemented down as the floor. The cement was used to stick things - we made it out of water and dirt rocks. The two jars of paint were holding the wooden plank.
Later we walked down to the old city. All in all I think Dubrovnik is :
Calm, classy, bright, clean, relaxed, zippy, exotic.
Anyway after the old city we had a lovely stir-fry for dinner and went to bed.
THE NEXT DAY
The next day I woke up and realised I had to get my new souvenir today seeing as I was leaving tomorrow. So we went down to the old market to see if I could find one, but firstly Me and Zoe headed to the garden to feed Molly the tortoise.
Gloria the apartment owner had given us lettuce the day before so we could feed Molly. When we went down to feed her we couldn't find her anywhere. Finally we found her far away in the corner of the garden far from where she normally hangs out hiding underneath the lavender bush.
Zoe told us that she only knew the tortoise was a girl because it didn't have a tail. Maybe she knew this from one of the many fact books she has read? After the markets I decided to check on that and I did find a tail so Molly Mavis the tortoise became Wallace the Tortoise.
At the old city market, Zoe and I found a T-shirt shop called "Manu-Factura". Inside the shop a lady came to greet us. I never found out her name. She told us we could choose whatever design we liked from a book and put it on any colour T-shirt we liked or we could take one of the already designed T-shirts.
One of the already designed T-Shirts I likes was white and had nine boxes on it (green ink) in a square and each box had the personality of someone and a funny quote. It was all about a glass of water and was very funny. In the first box on the top left it said "Optimist" and the quote was "Glass is half full". Next to it, it said "Pessimist" and the quote said "Glass half empty". Next to that it said "Realist" and the quote was "The Glass Is". In the end I decided that I didn't want to spend so much money on a T-shirt (they were 10 Euro).
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| The shirt didnt look like this but these were the words |
Eventually we found a souvenir stall that had what I was looking for. It was a small little, wooden boat with billowing sails and a Croatian flag. Dad and I remember the flag because we play logoflags quiz a lot. The flag of Croatia has red and white squared shield with 5 house type things on the top shield including a Ram and a Fountain.
Later that afternoon we took the cable car to Fort Imperial. The ride up was fine but coming down was a bit rocky. When we got to the top there were beautiful views of the mountains and sunset falling over them. Mum took a nice picture of me that we put in coloursplash and only left my hair colour and the colour of the flower I was touching.
When mum and I went down the road a little bit, we sat on some rocks and watched the drifting sunset glide down over the islands. It made me think that this is one of the reasons that people must travel to Croatia, it was beautiful and delicate and I felt lucky to see it.
THE NEXT, NEXT DAY
Today I jumped off a cliff.
I know it seems scary but I did. Although it was a bit of a challenge. First we had to book tickets for sea kayaking which is lucky because mum booked yesterday. We walked down to the harbour to get instructions. First we had to ask an information man wearing a bright orange t-shirt for directions. He said that we had to go down the path for about three meters and you would come to some steps, then walk down the steps, under the bridge and around the hedge. As we walked down to the rocky beach I knew I was going to have a great day.
When we were paddling along in our sea kayaks we were getting really tired from paddling so hard. So when we finally got to a beach I was relieved. Now I'll explain a few things while we are getting ready. So, the differences between a kayak and a sea kayak are:
- A sea kayak is made of plastic.
- A sea kayak is wider.
- A sea kayak is open.
Afterwards I got an ice cream. I got two flavours. The first was cookies and the second was hazelnut.
After all that Zoe and I had a great day off. Dad, Zoe and I went to dinner at a place called Kizmot. We had a great meal there. We had to on a ferry to Bari so we catch a train to Venice. Now, as I think back on Croatia I find it amazing the people there had such perfect English. It was almost as if I was speaking to someone in Australia.
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