Author Archives: tbeartravels

FRIDAY 9TH NOVEMBER 2012. Popped over to Venice for the day! I’m adamant to start the day with a negative comment but the breakfast waitress in the hotel dining room was a surly individual.  I asked for hot water for … Continue reading →

THURSDAY 8TH NOVEMBER 2012. TRIESTE   ITALY. Up early this morning as we had to be on the 6-00am bus for Trieste Italy.  Fortunately the bus station was just across the road from the hostel.  We said our goodbyes to the … Continue reading →

SUNDAY 4th NOVEMBER 2012. Last night we slept well and I think it was because we were appreciative of having a roof over our heads.  We were really getting desperate.  At one stage I thought it might have been a … Continue reading →

FRIDAY  2ND NOVEMBER 2012 MOSTAR TO SARAJEVO TO ZAGREB Farewelled Dada‘s family early and joined the bus for Sarajevo at 7-45 am.  Whilst waiting we had tea and a beggar sent her children to us for money.  Unfortunately  for them … Continue reading →

THURSDAY    1ST NOVEMBER 2012 First thing this morning we crossed the Mostar Bridge and poked about the east bank of the town. This archway was completely destroyed during the siege of Mostar. Note the sign indicating a war photo exhibition.  … Continue reading →

WEDNESDAY 31ST OCTOBER 2012. DUBROVNIK TO MOSTAR The owner of the ‘studio’ took us to the bus station this morning.  The car was a bomb and after many efforts to get it started I began wondering if we were going … Continue reading →

 MONDAY 29TH OCTOBER 2012. PERAST TO DUBROVNIK Some people think the Bay of Kotor is a fiord but in actual fact it is a ria.  A ria is a coastal inlet formed by the partial submergence of an unglaciated river … Continue reading →

SUNDAY 28TH OCTOBER 2012. PERAST. First thing today we went searching for the zimmer (room) we stayed in in 1972. Last night  I found a small b & w image  stuck to one of the 1972 maps tucked away in … Continue reading →

FRIDAY 26TH OCTOBER 2012. PERAST Today we decided to search for the location where the photographs shown in my 1972 diary were taken from.  I showed the photographs to Cico, thinking a fireman would know the building layout in the … Continue reading →

THURSDAY 25TH OCTOBER 2012. ULCINJ TO PERAST The Ulcinj apartment was about three kilometres from the bus station and up hill so we had no alternative but to take a taxi.  I suppose we could have walked but we would … Continue reading →