deterministic non-periodic flow
aside from sounding cool, this phrase very much captures the essence of my travel so far... and i believe it may continue to do so. a big shout out to hugo back in sydney for providing me with the book that enlightened me as to this phrase's existence. indeed it seems that only having one or two planned dates on this adventure (one of those being my date of arrival) has proven to be the perfect method; at least so far
after a lovely day and an early night in dubrovnik in a cute little place up the hill in dubrovnik, liam, vien, lucy and myself stowed our bags to the dismay of the 'gardenrobe' attendent (who was somewhat averse to providing the service that his job description entails: namely storing baggage) and went into town to kill some hours walking around the city walls. this generated a large desire for a swim so we did so and threw the waterpolo ball around with some locals; they do that for fun around here, no wonder they are so damned good at the sport.
our 3:30 bus was almost a 4:30 bus when lucy remembered she left her wallet behind the bed so she ran up the hill and we tried our darndest to hold the bus. all that time on the airwalker at the gym paid of for her because she was back in record time and we were off to dreznik and from there planned to go to the island hvar and then planned to move on the next day to the island. as i sat on the bus reading some poetic things about chaos, we realised that the destination may not allow us to island hop as we had planned. so we continued on impromptue to the town of split, about 4hrs north of dubrovnik, and met a neatly dressed old woman as we walked off the bus. she proceeded to walk us 5min (more like 10) to a mansion of an appartment overlooking the older section of town for about 15euro. i must say travelling as a pack of 4 is much better for accomodation and, after a lovely evening of pizza, beer and gelato we jumped a ferry out to the island vis where we experienced a further example of this phenomenon.
we arrived into this quaint paradise of a town at lunch time, 2hrs of gin-rummy on the boat killed a fair bit of time, and was met by a lovely woman who's cute daughter walked us up the hill to a two bedroom studio appartment with a furnished kitchen with a porch that overlooks the gorgeous bay... and and we are managing this at about 11euro. the owner managed to tell us, in broken english and with many hand signals, that the italian group that stayed before us planned 2 nights (as we have) but stayed 10. i must say this could be a distinct possibility; at the very least we will most probably be spending at least 3 nights here.
a swim in the crystal water this afternoon after a lovely lunch cooked from fresh market produce has topped the day off. all to do now is to go to the local vina house and purchase some local wine (which they drink mixed with water in these parts) and then purchase some fresh fish to cook and eat on our balcony.
looking forward to some days of order amongst the haphazard progress of my travel. but who knows what we will find next
J
after a lovely day and an early night in dubrovnik in a cute little place up the hill in dubrovnik, liam, vien, lucy and myself stowed our bags to the dismay of the 'gardenrobe' attendent (who was somewhat averse to providing the service that his job description entails: namely storing baggage) and went into town to kill some hours walking around the city walls. this generated a large desire for a swim so we did so and threw the waterpolo ball around with some locals; they do that for fun around here, no wonder they are so damned good at the sport.
our 3:30 bus was almost a 4:30 bus when lucy remembered she left her wallet behind the bed so she ran up the hill and we tried our darndest to hold the bus. all that time on the airwalker at the gym paid of for her because she was back in record time and we were off to dreznik and from there planned to go to the island hvar and then planned to move on the next day to the island. as i sat on the bus reading some poetic things about chaos, we realised that the destination may not allow us to island hop as we had planned. so we continued on impromptue to the town of split, about 4hrs north of dubrovnik, and met a neatly dressed old woman as we walked off the bus. she proceeded to walk us 5min (more like 10) to a mansion of an appartment overlooking the older section of town for about 15euro. i must say travelling as a pack of 4 is much better for accomodation and, after a lovely evening of pizza, beer and gelato we jumped a ferry out to the island vis where we experienced a further example of this phenomenon.
we arrived into this quaint paradise of a town at lunch time, 2hrs of gin-rummy on the boat killed a fair bit of time, and was met by a lovely woman who's cute daughter walked us up the hill to a two bedroom studio appartment with a furnished kitchen with a porch that overlooks the gorgeous bay... and and we are managing this at about 11euro. the owner managed to tell us, in broken english and with many hand signals, that the italian group that stayed before us planned 2 nights (as we have) but stayed 10. i must say this could be a distinct possibility; at the very least we will most probably be spending at least 3 nights here.
a swim in the crystal water this afternoon after a lovely lunch cooked from fresh market produce has topped the day off. all to do now is to go to the local vina house and purchase some local wine (which they drink mixed with water in these parts) and then purchase some fresh fish to cook and eat on our balcony.
looking forward to some days of order amongst the haphazard progress of my travel. but who knows what we will find next
J
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