Dubrovnik

The small old town within Dubrovnik's massive white stone walls is graced with the dramatic contrast of blue ocean, steep green hills, and deep red terra cotta tiled roofs.


What's not to like? Well actually the food if you must know, but we'd been eating more than our fair share in Bosnia, so we were due for a little famished beauty.

We stayed in an apartment on the old harbor, just opposite the old town. From there we could climb to the hill overlooking the city (where we're sitting in the first pic) to read and escape the crowds that came in for a few hours each morning from docking cruise ships.

Seriously, when a boat this size deposits its occupants on a city as small as Dubrovnik ... well it didn't take long for us to figure out the port-of-call itinerary and skedaddle out of the city center accordingly.

One particularly nice afternoon was spent walking along the top of the old town's wall.

In the off season there's not much in the way of nightlife, so one night we tried going to a movie. There's only one theater in town, and that theater had a single showing each day of a film called Max Payne. Worst movie ever. No joke. Even now I'm a little furious about it. But it's worth bringing up because this was our first experience outside the ArcLight with assigned seating at a cinema. Of course being self-entitled, freedom-seeking Americans, we completely ignored our tickets and sat in the middle of what passes for a movie theater in Croatia, but would look more like a middle school auditorium to anyone from the States. Oh the mayhem. Good thing we don't speak a word of Croatian or we might have felt compelled to move :0)

xoxo Jessie