Made it to Croatia, tried an Aperol Spritz in the airport, which was about £10 worth of foul and can remain firmly in its bottle in the airport, bitter and awful. Unlike myself. First time here, we’re in a place called Cavtat on top of a hill, well, half way up to Tommy’s supermarket a 1/3 mile hike up a vertical hill practically, literally, well no, not literally. TheCalves of Steepness will be busting out of my holiday pop socks before we’re done. Its just our little nuclear family for once, our friends L,B,A and R are over in Crete, hello to you guys, missing you a little bit.

We’re a short hop skip and jump from the airport at Dubrovnik and seem to be directly in the flight path, but it doesnt detract from the beauty of the place. Crystal blue sea, which myself and AJT (my son) paddle boarded in this morning, i fell off more but am much better than him, who like some sort of child pirate seems to have sea legs, less shaky and supposedly more secure. The craggy mountains behind us are dotted with orange roofs and those tall conifers, needle like, stretching upwards, are they cypress trees? Not sure but they feature in the scene in Gladiator when the Romans burn Maximus’ house and family, pretty but deathly connotations, the path down to his farm stead is lined with these tall conifers, someone will put me right, possibly Dr S…

I decided against bringing my Drone, due to the proximity of the airport and unknown Croatian CAA rules, it would have been a top spot, but when I’m a rich and sought after drone pilot I’ll come back and fly the fuck out of it. Consequently the Drone Business “DronelogicUK” will have to wait until I’m home before it receives my full attention, ands subsequently World Domination, watch out Worcester estate agents I’m coming for you…