Dubrovnik, Croatia – Saturday September 22

We sailed down the coastline of Croatia from Split to Dubrovnik. We were told that the old city was only 3.5 km from our ship, but it didn’t really look all that easily walkable. We took the ship’s shuttle bus, which was a very smart move. The way wasn’t that well marked and there were lots of hills, narrow streets, cars, and buses that we would have had to deal with had we walked.

The old town was, well, another old city with big walls and lots of restaurants and souvenir shops inside the walls. We went to one end of the walled area where we found the Bell Tower. You can see that they were into Digital Time hundreds of years ago as they displayed the hour and 5-minute increments as well as the regular two-hand clock.

 

Lavender is a big commodity in Croatia, and since we already know of the benefits of lavender oil, we bought a small cache of lavender. We’ve patted on the pillows at night – nice!

We walked around the side streets, and found a little pizzeria – Darlene enjoyed her dark local beer, and I stuck with the light one. The scampi pizza was anything but exciting. The two whole shrimp on top weren’t inviting and the small ones were virtually tasteless. At least the beer was good.

As we worked our way back to the shuttle bus stop, we did stop to view the beautiful water and take more photos. Even with the items we bought in town, and with lunch, we still didn’t get any even-year dated coins – seems strange to me with all the transactions to have received only odd-year coins. I’m going to have to look into that!

Stuart