that’s about it I think…

So… there’s loads of new reading in the posts below and that’s about it really for Croatia & Bosnia-Hercegovina. A brilliant little journey. I closed my loop just north of Ston from where it was just 60km back to Dubrovnik… a bloody hot 60km. The three of us met up that evening in the Old Town for end of trip/farewell drinks and dinner… we were such party animals.. worn out and brain dead by 11pm :-) Although that might have been down to the walnut and sour cherry liquers they brew locally….

My cycling gear made the journey home stuffed in plastic bag from a clothes shop in Dubrovnik called Bio-Hazard…  how very appropriate. There is totally a business opportunity for me in Dubrovnik I think… all those English tourists and not a curry house in the city. There was a restaurant there with an Indian name, Taj Mahal, but it served only Bosnian food… nothing Indian about it so it clearly  seems the way of it to have a restaurant name unrelated to the cuisine, i’ll call my place Vatican Surf n’Turf or something (to attract the american cruise ship crowd), it can be next to the Dominican Monastery in downtown Dubrovnik.

(this is the suspension bridge just west of Dubrovnik)

Bike made it home without a scratch on it. I flew British Airways for only £105 return and they did not charge for the bike… or even weigh it in either direction. Check out though what the sun did to the back of my once-black jersey. I took my one and only piece of Rapha gear ‘cos it looks OK off the bike, is nicely understated and the merino content means it doesn’t pong… I’ve sent it back to Rapha asking for a new one… remains to be seen if they take me seriously :-)

That is it I think, I suffered from only one fatal mistake on my journey home… the failure to make sure my wine rack was stocked before leaving home… the place was dry as a camel’s backside when I got home.. silly silly silly!

I’ll stick up a photo gallery with all the arty stuff in it dreckly….