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Dubrovnik - > Ston - > Cavtat
The evening before my 6am flight to Dubrovnik , it dawned on me that I had a 6am flight to Dubrovnik . Admittedly , I was distracted ( only a week before I ’ d learned that I ’ d soon be medivac ’ d to D . C .), but thanks to an all-nighter , I made it to the airport in time for my flight … and then a seven hour layover in Zagreb . * Note to future travelers , there ’ s a 10 hour Skopje bus to Dubrovnik . The silver lining of a layover longer than the actual flight was being able to take a coma-like nap on a very clean Zagreb airport bench .
After my 7 + hour , 400 mile out-of-the-way stopover , it was but a brief one hour flight to Dubrovnik and its cozy airport ( which happens to have a cave that you can visit ). Renting a car at the airport was a breeze . That ’ s right , I rented a car : a Citroen , with a manual transmission . For the first time in over a year I was driving . Whipping the small sedan along the twisting coastal highway made the entire trip worthwhile . It may be only 13 miles from the airport to Dubrovnik , but my inner Ricky Bobby took over and I raced along the coast for a few hours , until I finally considered all the expensive gas I was burning . Arriving in Dubrovnik I quickly realized that this was not a “ master planned ” community . Ancient and byzantine , its streets appear to have been laid out by a disoriented drunk . Following the exploration of numerous deadends and one-way streets , and learning to loathe the manual tranny on precariously hilly streets , I finally checked my man-card at a gas station and begged for directions . Thankfully , locals are accustomed to clueless tourists , and without hesitation , a quest was underway to get
me to my destination . Before long m me home , and shortly thereafter I le Anywhere . My car was tagged in le in an alley ).
Unfazed , I ventured out to explore t tage Site . Historic and picturesque traveling only to Dubrovnik , a car is magnet ). Of course there are a few tourist trap , as in it is crowded with is overpriced , but that ’ s to be expec around the Old City , the stone walk endless footfalls .
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36 – Pauza Magazine