Dubrovnik
"The Pearl of the Adriatic"
 Panorama from our room at Villa Ragusa, old town Dubrovnik |
 View from our room at Villa Ragusa |
 Looking down the street - lots of steps here |
 Robert in front of Villa Ragusa |
 Our room on the top floor...thank you, Rick Steves and Pero Carević |
 St Blaise (Sv Vlaha) - the symbol of Dubrovnik, always depicted holding the old city in his hand |
 Liza enjoying her plavac (cut with water) |
 ...while Robert has a beer |
 View of the harbor and fortified wall from just outside the Ploče gate |
 Robert at the Ploče gate |
 Another harbor view |
 How you tell what was damaged in the war - old vs. new roof tiles |
 Atop the city wall, a nice stroll around old town |
 Together! |
 Mount Srđ - high land outside the city that the locals were able to hold during the siege of Dubrovnik 1991 |
 More city view from the wall |
 And we're still together! |
 Roof tiles and narrow streets |
 The views just kept getting better |
 Robert on the wall at the Minčeta Tower |
 View from the tower |
 More steps! |
 The Croatian flag |
 Continuing along the wall... |
 The Fort of St Lawrence (Tvrđava Lovrijenac) |
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 There's a restaurant down there! |
 Serious cannonballs |
 On the wall looking at Lokrum Island |
 Robert on the Stradun, the "main drag" of old town |
 Walking in old town - banner for Marco Polo...although he sailed for the Venetians he was from another island, Korčula |
 Yum...pršut (Croatian prosciutto), cheeses, roasted vegetables... |
 Narrow streets and steps |
 Outside the Buža gate |
 Inside Sv Vlaha...oops not a good exposure, couldn't use the flash! |
 Robert checks out the menu at our morning cafe, Dubrava Bistro, just down a few flights of steps from Villa Ragusa, on the Stradun at Luža Square |
 I'll be darned...geraniums! Just like San Pedro CA! |
 Bell tower - from our room |
 On Lokrum Island, just off shore and with a nice botanic garden |
 Lokrum also had, um, nude beaches, but we didn't partake |
 Peacock |
 Robert surveying the shoreline |
 At the botanic garden on Lokrum |
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 Lokrum's rocky shore |
 Liza standing on the little pier waiting for the boat back over to Dubrovnik |
 Views from the boat...Dubrovnik in the distance... |
 ...one of the big cruise ships...glad we weren't on one actually |
 ...an overpriced, fancy hotel (stay in Old Town, much nicer!) |
 Approaching Dubrovnik |
 Getting closer - beautiful walls from the water! |
 Can you imagine what someone would have thought arriving here in the 15th, 16th, 17th centuries? |
 Dubrovnik's marina |
 Marina |
 Back on the Stradun - a little busier now |
 Sv Vlaha's church |
 Bell Tower and Orlando's Column, Luža Square |
 In the Franciscan monastery near the Pile gate |
 Franciscan monastery |