9/24/19-9/26/19 Dubrovnik Croatia

After our quick overnighter in Plitvice Lakes National Park we headed to Dubrovnik Croatia. Google says five to seven and a half hour drive. It’s going to be interesting🧐

The drive through the National Park is interesting. We started out in heavy fog going through heavy timber, then, we left the fog behind and transitioned into a rocky landscape with scrub trees. Again, no agriculture, nor farm animals. However, everywhere are stands in front of homes advertising honey and cheese. Doesn’t cheese come from cows or goats😳

Ok, up the hill we go, really rocky, windswept area. Lots of old machine gun nests (remember they fought a civil war here 1991-1995), then down the hill we go. All toll highways by the way. Lovey lake we passed.

Then, just like that we dropped down to the sea, lovely Mediterranean feel here. Lemon trees, grapes and olives and humid as heck. Our lunch spot and some views.

People selling fresh limes, lemons and farm fresh veggies roadside.

Driving down the road (it’s two lanes now), we see beautiful beaches, lovely villas and condos, quite the tourist spot.

We enter Dubrovnik, it’s not a huge city but very old and the GPS takes us to our Airbnb. We have a little issue finding our exact street (the Polish map guys must have built Dubrovnik) but get checked in. Only street parking here 😳

Cute little Airbnb, small but functional, with a great balcony😎👍

Afternoon walking tour of the city, we are right on the water.

Ok, two days to explore Dubrovnik, really the old city of Dubrovnik is the sight everyone comes here to see. The Game of Thrones had some scenes from a show filmed here and the tour buses and cruise ship crowds are huge! The first day we slept in so we arrived at Old Town around 10:00 AM, big mistake! Huge crowds, tours everywhere and literally thousands of people in a small area. We do our best to regroup and see what we can🧐 Beautifully restored city, it was destroyed in an earthquake in 1667, rebuilt, then was shelled in 1994 during the civil war, destroying 50% of the Old City. It’s beautiful now, just full of people.

Pile Gate, world famous!

The Old City and harbor.

Ok, today we get back on the Mike and Cindy plan, up early and at the city by 7:30. We pay for the walking tour that lets us walk the entire Old Town walls, awesome.

It was approximately two km around the loop with thousands of stairs and slopes😳

Beautiful city, lovely sights, just lots and lots of people😎 We did take an afternoon and enjoyed the beach and then sat on our deck and watched the ship traffic. It was substantial from the tours and ferries to the extensive group of islands. Tour director Cindy was nice to me here, we only walked 18 miles with thousands and thousands of steps.

Off tomorrow to Split in the middle of the Croatian coast line. Should be a beautiful drive.

Ciao, Ciao!