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On my last day in Bosnia, I went on an early morning visit to the Tvrdoš Monastery, just over the river from the apartment I was staying in:



and then caught a taxi in to Trebinje, and had an early lunch in the nice square...

 

...the ferry left Dubrovnik Port at 10 pm, and I had to check in by 8 pm, so I felt I had time to do the two taxi thing that they all wanted to do (i.e. Trebinje taxi to the border on one side, then walk across the border and get a Dubrovnik Port taxi on the other side) if I set off by 1 pm, which I did...arriving at the Bosnian Ivanica border crossing by 2 pm.


I walked the mile or so down the road to the Croatia border crossing.  However...
...it turned out that it was not that simple!! The border crossing into Croatia, at Brgat Gorni, had a ban on taking animals across it.  I had brought Scamp out of Croatia at the same border, walking across, only 3 days earlier, but going back into Croatia, for no reason I could ascertain (but probably linked to the Bosnia war, when the Croats had shelled Tvrdos from Dubrovnic) animals were not allowed!!
The next crossings, which I was assured would allow Scamp across were 100 km in either direction...and there I was on foot, with my bags and a dog!!
I schlepped back up the hill to the Bosnian crossing (it took a bit of chat to get them to allow me back in!!) and took refuge in a little bar.



It was lucky that I had got the number of the taxi driver who had picked me up three days earlier: a really nice chap who had chatted with me about his honey and distilled mead business.  He could not help me himself (with the long journey from Ivanica up to Neum, where we had crossed on out way from Medjugorje) as he was in Serbia (about 300 km away) but he managed to find someone who would drive me the 200km round trip for 180 Euros - and since it was by then too late to get a refund on my ferry ticket, this was a "good" deal!!

The drive took about 5 hours, and we just managed to get to Dubrovnik Port for 8 pm for me to check in.




The sleeping seat on the boat, and the charging point, looking aft: bound for Italy!