Heidi & Richard Bendel's travels

12 August 2006

We woke up early and set off for Sibenik. This is a fairly big town if one compares it to the other villages around and it is very pretty. The town developed with steep stone alleyways leading down towards the 'beach'. The Cathedral is amazing all built from stone. It really is a quaint town but we did spend about 2 hours trying to sort out our ferry trip from Dubrovnik to Bari (Italy). They are so disorganized and nobody can give you the correct information. It is also very busy so the ferries are overbooked and the traffic is crazy. We had a quick lunch and then we started walking towards the travel agency to find out if I am allowed to cross a 15km Border into Bosnia in order to get to Dubrovnik. Everyone seems to think that you just have to wave your passport but with my luck they will see SA and not let us through. They have all said it should be fine but we just don't know- I guess we will have to wait and see! We got caught in a sudden downpour- got drenched and had to wait in a shop for it to subside. Luckily it was only a 10 minute shower and then we had to take our shoes off to get to the car through the puddles. We then left and moved on to Trogir. This is an island that is so pretty. The whole town is very old and there are no modern buildings YET. Lots of restaurants and old fortresses, old walls and cathedrals. We had dinner at a family hotel which we were so lucky to find accommodation at and it had wireless LAN too. Walking around in the evening is impossible without having an ice-cream to end off the day!