Day 28 (Tuesday)
I checked the Dubrovnik port authority website this morning
and noticed that there were 3 cruise ships in today so it might be a bit
crowded. As we needed to buy tickets for
the next leg of our trip to Bari we thought we’d go to Gruz port and pass all
the ‘cruisers’ coming the other way.
We went for a walk along the port to take some photos of
Cunard’s Queen Victoria cruise ship. It
was huge and I had to go a long way back in order to get the whole ship in the
camera frame.
Once we’d bought the tickets we had a look around the fruit
and veg market. Tracey was walking in
front of me and she noticed and woman moving a large sun shade around in an ungainly fashion and
thought that she’d better be careful before she did someone some damage. Unfortunately that someone was me as she
brought it crashing down on my head.
Tracey was oblivious to this (or so she said) and carried on walking.
I managed to stagger to a chair clutching my head. Someone gave me water and another lady gave
me a bottle of what looked like coke. I
was just about to take a swig when she snatched it off of me and poured some
over my head and a load more over my hands (and shorts), it turned out to be vinegar. I had started to gather quite a crowd by this
time (still no sign of my loving wife) and someone else handed me some water, I
took a large gulp to discover it was actually some strong alcoholic substance
(plum brandy?) so I took another gulp which brought things back into
focus. I convinced the crowd of
onlookers that I would live and stumbled off to find Tracey. Tracey’s opening words were “Where on earth
have you been and why do you smell of vinegar?”
When I had related the whole sorry tale to her I expected some sympathy
but my story was received with tears of laughter!
Tomorrow is our last day in Croatia. We catch the overnight ferry (Wednesday at
22:00) to Bari (Italy) in order to criss-cross the Adriatic to get to the Greek Ionian islands.
Don't worry about my head, I've nevvur bean betttur.
Cunard's Queen Victoria Cruise Ship
Queen Victoria and two other lesser ships
The top left cabin belongs to Bill and Sheila ;-)
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