Croatian holiday - Saturday

On Saturday, I headed first to breakfast at a place recommended by RS in the cove I took so many pictures of the day before.  I took more. 

Food just tastes that much better when you are looking at that.  I read a bit, enjoyed the calm and the warmish weather while dining on walnut crepes.  It was quite good.

After that, what morning is not complete without some ice cream?  I headed into the old city, grabbed some ice cream and headed for a stroll.  I found the old port that I ate at the night before:

The main road in the old city is really cool - shops on both sides, pedestrian only:

The city has historically been protected by this saint:

That's St. Blaise - sculpture in the wall.

I also saw a map of where the bombs fell in the Dubrovnik siege:

Hard to see, but that's a lot of bombs and not very long ago.  I'm not knowledgeable at all on the former Yugoslav conflict, but having now traveled in Montenegro and Croatia, I could see where the different ethnic groups have no trust of each other.  Whether that was a result of the war or existed before is another question, but I heard and witnessed a lot of ethnic bashing.  More on that in the Sunday recap.

I also took some time to see the Pharmacy museum:

I also took a brief video:

Not worth the $5 to get in at all, but some pretty pictures, I guess.  $5 would have been better spent on 2 ice creams :)

I then did the Old Town Wall walk, which is one of 2 3 pyramid items in the RS books.  I entered at the Ploce gate and enjoyed the long trip around with pictures:

 View from above of the old port

 View of the old city

 More old city

 More old city

 Calmish hair

 Crazy hair

 Cross on the top of Mt. Srd

 Old city view

 Mountain view

 Croatian flag

 Old city - hair is becoming matted.

 Main street in old city

 Cove

 Waves on the rocks

 Hair stuck to head

 Cliffs

House leading into the sea.

 

Bar Buza from previous post

 

I was on the walls for about 4 hours when it started to sprinkle.  Considering the time and my need to eat about every 2 hours while on holiday, I jumped off the walls and headed to another RS recommended place for Bosnian food, which is essentially meat and more meat (and a side of potato):

 

Yum...

 

Dubrovnik is really bad for the rain though.  It started to gully washer after I finished eating, so I grabbed my umbrella and made it back to the hotel as quickly as I could.  Considering I had an early morning the next morning (daylight savings, plus a 8AM go time for Montenegro) I ended up drinking tea at the hotel and enjoying an early night to bed.  It rained all night, so that was definitely the right call.