After a day at sea, we arrived in Dubrovnik, Croatia and once again the sky is blue and the air very warm. We can’t get over how we have had an entire 21 days in Europe and had nothing but sunshine!! It has really made exploring around the towns very enjoyable!
We took the shuttle bus from the dock to what they call “Old Town”. Dubrovnik is a beautiful Mediterranean port that once rivaled Venice for dominance of the Adriatic Sea. The “Old Town” is one of the world’s finest and best preserved medieval cities and designated as a world heritage site. Defensive walls have protected the Old Town for a thousand years. The walls were never breached. They are 9 to 18 feet thick and up to 75 feet high with 5 forts, 16 towers and bastions and it surrounds the entire city. You can actually walk around it but we did not do that today, we just visited the old town and took some pictures.
This is a picture overlooking the Old Town and all the “red roofs” on the houses and buildings. It really is a breathtakingly beautiful city.
This is standing on part of the promenade walk along the wall and a picture of one of the forts
Walking along part of the wall
Brian is afraid of heights so this was his “safe” way of looking over the wall!!!
The water is just beautiful and clean. I took this by hanging over the cliff with Brian standing way back saying to me “How can you do that”!
This was inside the castle walls, a very quaint little shopping center.
This was the Clock Tower in this little shopping area and we see that there is actually going to be a Marathon run on the wall this coming Sunday!
A last look of the village before we went back to the ship.
Tonight we leave for Kotor, Montenegro and this will be the last city we visit. We then have another day at sea on Friday and arrive in Venice on Saturday morning but unfortunately we won’t see much of Venice other than what we see on our way to the airport to head home.
I have posted two posts today, so to read Naples, please see the post below this one.
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