Just had the most fantastic time in Croatia. The conference went exceptionally well, with lots of great discussion. Met some really lovely people. Had dinner with a group of incredibly interesting and just plain nice GPs – a husband and wife from Slovenia and a couple of young docs from Japan. It seems ‘women rule’ in Slovenia (a quote from the delightful female GP who was about my age) and it was very clear who was the boss in their relationship. She told me in Slovenia, women are given huge respect and men ‘do what they are told with no complaint’ – sounds good to me. I think our lovely male Japanese dinner guests were a bit taken aback but I am sure that if I lived closer to Slovenia we would be great friends.
I hadn’t expected the food in Croatia to be very good but it was absolutely fantastic. I don’t think I have ever eaten such consistently great food anywhere that I have travelled.
On our last afternoon, I went into old Dubrovnik (quickly – straight before our flight) as there was a very large Dali exhibition in a small gallery. It was fantastic. I really enjoyed wandering around the gallery looking at the amazingly intricate (if sometimes confronting) Dali paintings. As I left the gallery, a cruise ship had come into port. OHHHH it was mental – thousands of people pouring out of buses. Made me very pleased that we stayed on the beautiful bay where we did, and had avoided the cruise ship crowds. Carol made me laugh when she said the cruise ships reminded her of live sheep export vehicles.
The flight from Dubrovnik to Roma was so easy and incredibly comfortable. I was slightly anxious beforehand as we were flying on a dash 8 – propellers and all, but it was fantastic – left exactly on time and arrived exactly on time and much better service than QANTAS et. al. No hesitation anytime about flying Croatian airlines
Sleeping under the stars 