Jewel to jewel: Bus from Kotor to Dubrovnik, Croatia

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I woke up with a high BG today — 222 — but otherwise it was much better all day, despite a late low (but who cares about those!).

It was also an unexpected travel day. Our time in Montenegro was up, and Masayo and I had been discussing what to do. We need to finish this trip and fly to the United States to visit my family before returning to Osaka, Japan.

But we first decided it would be a shame not to see Dubrovnik, Croatia’s famous Jewel of the Adriatic. We had to skip it during our two weeks in Croatia before, but it’s really close to Kotor, Montenegro. So we elected to spend a few days in Dubrovnik.

Our breakfast was thanks entirely to Nada this time — at 9 am, as she promised, she brought us two big pieces of homemade burek and yogurt. Masayo and I each had half a burek plus the yogurt.

Our bus, according to the internet, was leaving around 3 pm. Nada told us no problem, we could wait as long as we needed, and she would drive us to the station. She is amazing.

We paid her (and went down and paid the fish place for dinner last night), and then worked on our computers all morning. I walked down myself to the bus station (it’s about a twenty minute walk from the room) to buy the tickets since the internet was sketchy about details. The bus was at 2:45 pm, and the tickets to Dubrovnik were €20 each.

Back in the room I checked and was 139. Not bad! The time to leave came, and Nada drove us to the station. We said our thankful goodbyes, and when the bus came (a little late) we got on and left Kotor.

The road north from Kotor winds around the entire bay, and we got to see the places we were unable to visit. Unfortunately the bus windows were really dirty, and the sun was in our eyes, so it was hard to really see things properly.

We got to the Croatia border after an hour or so, and things went smoothly for us. Not for a woman sitting in front of us though; they made her get off while the bus continued on. Must have been a problem with her ID or something; she seemed like a nice grandmother type.

I took a Humalog shot on the bus and ate the other half of the burek from breakfast. It was still delicious.

We got to Dubrovnik and found a city bus to a place near Old Town called Pile Gate (pronounced “pee leh” gate); our room was actually in Old Town. It was easy to find, located up some steep stairs in a side alley.

We didn’t walk around Old Town much, but what small section we’d seen on the way to the room seemed pretty nice — old white stones everywhere, and everything really clean and friendly looking.

As dark fell later, we went out to find dinner. On the main street in Old Town I checked my BG — 114. Amazing.

We wanted something simple and easy, but couldn’t find a pizza place, even after leaving the more touristy Old Town. We did find a Konzum supermarket though, and we got some stuff for dinner — a package of pasta and cheese mix.

We walked back to the room, through the ancient but well-lit and empty streets of Old Town. Masayo made the pasta stuff, and added pepperoni pieces to it to make it more interesting. After the two bottles of wine in three days in Kotor, I had only lots of water.

After dinner I had no energy, and watched YouTube clips until I actually started to doze off a little. Why so sleepy? Eventually I checked my BG — a ha! A mere 58. No wonder.

I had a banana plus some cookies, and a mug of hot chocolate mix we bought at the Kozum. That ought to do it.

So, although I started out high in the morning, I wasn’t high the rest of the day — in fact I was excellent, even if I did dip a little low after dinner. No problem.

I contacted a Croatian friend of mine who lives in Japan on Facebook, and she happens to be in Dubrovnik right now so we made plans to meet up with her tomorrow morning. That will be fun. I can’t wait to see more of this world-famous, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Dubrovnik!

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