Day 10

Day 10

Dubrovnik.
I can?t get used to this putting the clocks forward - now put them back again.
Still, it gave us an extra hour in bed which was probably needed after last nights deck party and a night of drinking doubles.

A lovely morning coming into Dubrovnik in Croatia.
And what an impressive bridge.

After going ashore and heading into the old town SWMBO and I started off by walking round the city wall.
After taking ages to climb up there (SWMBO can have problems with steps and there are a lot here) the views are spectacular - both into and out of the old town.
My problem is I do not like heights and the parapet for a lot of the way is between knee and hip height on me and the wall is very narrow.
But I managed without falling off.

It is very strange walking around and looking into peoples houses and the school etc and being totally ignored. Still - with the hundreds of thousands of people visiting every day they must be used to it.

I loved the roofs (yes - I know ?. I am weird) and took loads of pictures of them.

When the city was being shelled during the war in 1992 (yep - that short a time) the vast majority of the roofs were damaged or destroyed and the replacement tiles are a much redder colour than the yellow/burnt ocre of the originals because they are no longer made - and haven?t been for a long, long time (they were made to last and did ?.. About 200 years apparently).

Dubrovnik was one of the two places on this trip that I have always wanted to visit - and I wasn?t disappointed. It is the sort of place where you can sit at café tables in the cool of the narrow alleys and just ?people watch? all day ???? brilliant.