Tag: Europe 2024
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Saturday 04 May 2024Highlights: Finnair Non-Schengen Business Class Lounge Today is the start of the long journey home. Six of us had organised to go to the airport together – Theresa, Ivan, Megan, Alexa, Darby and myself. We had breakfast together and order an Uber van. T he vehicle that showed up however was not…
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Friday 03 May 2024Highlights: Smooth Ferry Crossing, Exploring Diocletian’s Palace, Farewelling our group Early morning start as we needed to drop our bags off for transfer to the ferry at 6.30 am. With the breakfast buffet opening at 6.30 am and us needing to walk to the ferry at 7 am today was not the…
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Thursday 02 May 2024Highlights: Enjoying Palmizana Island Today was a day of leisure on Hvar with a morning visit to Palmizana Island. First up I was woken up early by a crying toddler 😦 But breakfast helped get the day back on track before our cruise to Pakleni Island.
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Wednesday 01 May 2024Highlights: Ferry to Hvar With a 2 pm departure from Dubrovnik Darby and me were keen to get back down to the Old Town and use the Cable Car for a different prespective of the area. Unfortunately just as we were about to buy our ticket they shut down the cable car…
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Tuesday 30 April 2024Highlights: Exploring three islands of the Elaphiti; Kolocep, Sipan, Lopud. Today was a free day to explore Dubrovnik and the surrounding area. I was struggling a bit with the crowds yesterday (I can’t imagine peak season crowds) so Darby and me decided to book an all day cruise trip to local island.
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Monday 29 April 2024Highlights: Exploring Dubrovnik Today was the ninth country of this G Adventure tour and the tenth of this trip as we near the end of this adventure. Today we re-enter the European Union and visit Croatia.
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Sunday 28 April 2024Highlights: Sea kayaking in Kotor Bay, Hiking up Kotor Fortress Wall Today was to be a strenuous day of activities, with an included sea kayaking in Kotor Bay and an optional hike up Kotor Fortress wall in the plan today.
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Saturday 27 April 2024Highlights: Mostar Old Bridge, The Bay of Kotor, Exploring Kotor Old Town. A later start was the plan for today to allow two new tour members to join us Susanna and Steve (after Dubai floods cause major delay) and Rich and Cynthia to catch up after staying in Sarajevo due to ill…
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Friday 26 April 2024Highlights: Exploring Tito’s Atomic Fallout Bunker, Experiencing stunning Mostar Our thoughtful CEO Nadya suggested that today we do a side excursion on our way to Mostar and visit Atomska Ratna Komanda, or more commonly referred to as Tito’s bunker. This bunker was constructed between 1953 and 1979 by the Yugoslavian Government protect…
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Thursday 25 April 2024.Highlights: Sarajevo Tunnel of Hope, Walking the 1984 Olympic Bobsled track, Viewing Sarajevo from Cable Car, Viewing the eternal flame. We commenced an included morning tour to learn about the Sarajevo Tunnel aka the Tunnel of Hope. The tunnel was constructed between March and June 1993 during the Siege of Sarajevo (1992…
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