Day 52: South Dubrovnik, Croatia

Stats... 74km in 4hrs 20mins. We set the alarm early and managed to ignore it for an hour! Had coffee on the terrace and were on the road about 8am. We rode uphill to the border crossing back into Croatia. After 20km we found a market that was air conditioned! A combination of no dinner and no breakfast, immense heat and tiredness meant that I was feeling pretty dizzy. We had to keep stopping to get ourselves back on track. We rested under a tree on the waters edge for an hour then cracked on to Dubrovnik. The city is described as the pearl of the adriatic... what they failed to mention is that it is built on the side of a mountain and is not touring bike friendly! We grabbed a pizza but no drink as they were extortionately priced, and then found an air conditioned internet. I had a quick nose around the old town which was surrounded by high city walls with the streets again being made from white marble. We managed to book our flights home so now we have a deadline to work to. We sweated up 1km of extremely steep hill to get out of the city and made our way 10km up the road to a small family run campsite. It was code red on the mossie alert as we lit 5 mossie coils to keep the blighters away! It worked.