Saturday, May 24, 2008

Day 16 - Julee, get up! Time for Dubrovnik...

Every night we left the window open so we could breathe in the cool air from the Cappadocia mountains or the Dalmatian coast. To catch the bus at 5:45 for Dubrovnik, we were informed by the ticket lady to show up at the bus station at 5. I set the alarm clock last night for 3:50 to get ready and finish last bit of packing. It was a Friday night and we did not know that Trogir, a tiny town would party all night. We did notice that the population in Trogir were very young. Most people we saw on the streets were under 35 years old. We thought the majority of the town were just young men in their teens and early twenties. A car alarm broke out honking every five minutes from 12 to 1. All night long scooters went zooming by on the cobbled street below our window with loud screams. The disco music was romping in the next door bar, possibly the only one in town and in the neighboring towns since we saw the local bus number 37 carrying drunk young men out of Trogir bus station at 5 AM. At 3:30, I gave up my attempt to fall asleep since I was going to get up at 3:50 anyways.

When I stared at the alarm clock next time, it was 4:20. I woke Julee. Twenty minutes later we were at the Trogir bus station. Time passed slowly and it got chilly. I kept asking Julee the time and we were counting down the minute when the bus should show up. At 5:45, the bus still did not show up. We got very concerned and of course based on our previous situation of being stranded on islands, we blamed it on the Croatian bus system which seemed to be a little fickle. Julee went inside the bus ticketing center and I went to check other waiting buses. A moment later Julee came out and said "The clock in the bus station says it is 4:55 right now and my watch says 4:55. Did you set the clock back an hour?" "No. I just took it out and used it. You were the one that set it in Turkey." I answered knowing she's going to kill me now. "The Croatian time is one hour back!!! You made me get up at 3:20 to catch the 5:45 bus." I ran away from her.

I am now officially no longer the clock keeper. Hey the good news was the bus came on time. We got on and arrived on time in Dubrovnik.

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