Dubrovnik, Croatia
Mary Murphy
September 9, 2026
For years I’ve been wondering what the hype was about. Put off by stories of massive crowds and an over-touristed old town, it’s taken me
For years I’ve been wondering what the hype was about. Put off by stories of massive crowds and an over-touristed old town, it’s taken me
Some 27 km northwest of Dubrovnik lies the village of Slano. Home to fewer than 600 locals, its population swells in the summer months. Boats
I’ve never understood friends who go back to the same place on holiday year after year. We have so little time, and the world is
One of the many reasons I like a road trip is that our time is our own. We can stop whenever and wherever we please.
We’ve not been to Vis. Not yet. We’re going, though. Sometime. We want to visit the farthest inhabited island off the Croatian coast with a
We did something we wouldn’t normally do. We booked into a posh hotel. The second-oldest hotel on the Adriatic – the Scessionist-style Heritage Hotel Imperial.
I’ve a very long bucket list of places I want to see before I depart for the hereafter. High up on that list was the
Once the site of the first-century Roman town of Aquama, itself a marsh, a military post, and a legionnaire camp, the Croatian city of Čakovec
Zagreb hasn’t featured on my list of cities to return to. I remember being singularly unimpressed with it, the last time I was there ….
A mate of mine, on a short-term contract in Zagreb, visited us in the village last weekend. I’d checked the trains and the direct one
