View from our hotel window at the Hilton.  Great location, just a short walk to Pile Gate. We were in the new building and loved our room, large, quiet and the buffet breakfast was super!

We arrived in Dubrovnik for a 5 day holiday over the bank holiday.  This was my third visit to Dubrovnik - first time post communism.  In 20 years, other than a huge amount of tourist shops, it didn’t seem much different.  The Pearl of the Adriatic is still a gem.         

Around the harbour and outside the walled city.

              

The walk along the cliffs to the port, about 30 mins from Dubrovnik. We caught a ferry to the diminutive island of Kolocep - very serene island. Had glimpses of a few large homes in the hills, saw 2 hotels and not much else!

On the island of Kolocep and at the one taverna that was open for 10 mins after we arrived and then promptly closed.   Waiting for the ferry back to Dubrovnik, the skies turned dark and rain threatened, but we never saw it.

 

Day trip to Montenegro (Herceg Novi and Bay of Kotor)

On the 3rd day we decided to rent a car and cross the border into Montenegro…little did we know that they were celebrating their one year anniversary of being a “new country”..  It was back to euros and a cyrillic alphabet. We both agreed it has the most gorgeous natural beauty  - with fjords, and mountain vistas and the requisite walled city.

         

Port town of Herceg Novi..

    

Bay of Kotor and walled city of Kotor

                      

                   

Monastery on the bay that one can visit.

We took the mountain route home, got silly lost and had a rather hairy ride in the dark on the moutain roads (or lack thereof) while having an uninvited game of chicken with a car full of not so nice locals.  We survived..nothing like a little fear/adrenaline rush!