Arrival at our boat. Gulet Andi.
We were not scheduled to arrive at our boat until 3pm, so we had all morning to sight-see in Dubrovnik one last time. Here is one thing that can be said about old town on a weekend, it’s crowded…really crowded. The cruise ships pull on in the morning, and tour busses drop tourists off from anywhere within a few hour’s drive, and the streets were packed with tourist (including us). If you come to this town on the weekend, do everything you can to get get out and about between 8am and 10am, or after 7pm. Of course, everything is relative, it’s probably no worse (or better) than Venice, or Paris, or Times Square, but it was a big change from the relatively calm streets from the day before.
And finally the pearl In the oyster of our Croation getaway, our boat! Our boat is a 22 meter Gulet boat with 6 cabins.
It is a wooden ship with two masts, and loads of space for lounging up top. The stern has a table large enough to comfortably seat eight and two lounging beds able to fit two people each, one I each corner. The bow has a deck with lots of room for lounging in the sun, or if the afternoon is too hot a shade can be unrolled from the boom to create some shade. There are five guest cabins down below (cramped quarters, not unlike camping), and one cabin for the skipper, the other two crew members sleep in a hatch on the bow that they share with some of the boat’s equipment. This is no luxury cruise, but it right up our alley, and the small size and only three crew members means we really get to know everybody really well. Here is a run down of who we will be Sharing our boat with for the next 7days:
