Mediterranean – Adriatic Sea – Slovenia, Croatia, Montenegro and Albania all lie on the Eastern side of the Adriatic Sea. Cruises in this part of the world can leave the UK but it is more likely the ships are home-ported at Malta, Naples, Majorca or Venice using their airports. This is a very special area and digs into the history, religion, and mythology, not least the Game of Thrones.
Film of an evening cruise out of Venice.
The euro replaced the Slovenian tolar as Slovenia’s official currency in 2007.
Castles, caves, old village, lakes and wine.
Wonderful old villages full of tradition, caves and castles featured on the coastline, and ruins and lakes inland
You will need to use local currency, Croatian kuna, in government places, like the entrance to walk the walls in Dubrovnik. The Euro is accepted in most places and English is widely spoken.
Cres is on the Croatian coast and has a 16th-century Venetian Tower and Arsan Palace
Everything comes second to Game of Thrones. We have our own Game of Thrones film on the filming, as well as walking the walls and the old city.
Romance and sunshine, that is what brought the producers of Mamma Mia! to this area as well as Greece.
A big yellow taxi catamaran! Or a history tour, or a winery…
Museum of Lošinj, in the 19th-century Fritzi Palace can be found on this Croatian island.
Cruise ships anchor at Sobra, the port town and guests tender. A great place to cycle around.
A promenade walk and exotic flowers add to the sun, sea and sand.
Pula has an incredible colosseum.
This ancient walled city has 4 bell towers. Including the Romanesque tower at the Cathedral Svete Marije (St. Mary) and the tower at the ruins of Sveti Ivan Church (St. John the Evangelist). The 16th-century Monastery St. Justine (Crkva Svete Justine) is a museum.
Game of Thrones was here – for a bit. But the Romans were here for longer.
Close to Split, the area has a wealth of medieval and Roman history
For all the ruins, the modern wind pipes designed in the concrete promenade might be the thing you remember.
The Euro is the official currency even though Montenegro isn’t in the EU.
Montenegrin is the Balkan state’s official language. However, Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian and Albanian all remain languages in official use.
Podgorica is 41km from Bar, 58 minutes on a train for around €3.
An interesting port because it is along a river canyon, the Gulf of Kotor, which has made it easy to protect throughout its long history.
Albanian lek but Euro is accepted in most places like hotels and restaurants. ATM machines will give you local money.
Durres has a huge Roman amphitheatre, a 9th-century church with mosaic-covered walls and much more.
A popular holiday resort at the mouth of the Adriatic, it is opposite Corfu which is a ferry ride away.
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As we change servers and expand space and memory once again, to cope with the increased menus and content, we will be making more changes during the summer. Doris Visits somehow grew from an innocent beginning … Doris, Doris, who the heck is Doris? … into this huge site with an ambition to look at over 1000 cruise ports and over 450 ocean, expedition, and river cruise ships. We are not and do not intend to become travel agents. We do not sell cruises and only link to the cruise operator’s own websites. Cruise operators, like others, do run adverts on our website as is the norm, but we have discovered how to reduce the mass of adverts that had found us.
We are not associated with any cruise line; not here and not on the many cruise chat sites we run… see the menu. However, we do work with their press departments and use partnership or affiliation links. As they can see our traffic, we get the use of their media and news. However, we are not a news site, we remain entertainment creators. Our main objectives are to make video port guides and create cruise crime thrillers; we have 6 novels in our series and hope to make the first, CRUISE SHIP HEIST, into a movie soon.
I am pleased to announce that our new YouTube series – A CRUISE BOOK @ BEDTIME begins on YouTube at the end of July 2022 and will run a calendar year with a serialised story, running ten minutes every night. No pressure … hopefully after being attached to Emmerdale for 26 years as an adviser I will manage to do ten minutes a night!
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