what a funtastically fascinating country! crazy expensive for the balkans though, especially where i went, the red-roofed old city of dubrovnik. dubrovnik is the most successful and affluent city in croatia today (due to tourism), just as it was during the middle ages (due to maritime trade – it was a powerful city state that had a formidable navy and rivaled venice for supremacy in the adriatic). i had booked some place and thought it was a hostel, but nay, it was a room in a family’s house! that was cool, and they even let me use their washing machine. i went around the top of the city walls, which is the thing to do there, and went to a few tiny museums, and otherwise just wandered the narrow pedestrian-only streets of the old city. a highlight might have been this little war photo exhibition about when the city was under siege by the serbian army in 1991.
then took a bus to… bosnia!