Dubrovnik

October 20, 2009 - Dubrovnik, Croatia - on the other side of the Adriatic we spent the day. This city and country is spectacular. All the stone buildings with orange terra cotta roofs. It is the cleanest place we’ve been. This village was bombed back in 1991-1992 by the Serbians. They have cleaned up, rebuilt and it is the first really friendly place we’ve been. Everyone was nice to us and helped us, even teaching us a few words. It is also very clean. There is a wall around the city. This is a very old port city which has been active since the 1500s probably longer than that. We visited the maritme museum and several old churches and cathedrals. The city is built completely in the hills so everything is a maze of step up and back down into the center of the “Old town” - very cool. We definitely got our exercise this day. Such a wonderful place, this is one country we would definitely like to come back to and visit for a longer period of time. The scenic views are breathtaking and relaxing.



We did have a funny story here too - The public restrooms in Italy charge a fee of 1 or 1 1/2 Eurose which is equal to 2 dollars or so just to use the facilities. amazingly they are clean, but the idea of paying and using a turnstile is pretty funny. In one of the small towns - Amalfi - there was a little old lady collecting the money ane this is an old town, so the accomodations were not modern, but still okay -- you just didn't know where the money was going for sure. But the funny part was she was handing our the paper towels and you could only get one piece. Then we go to Croatia - there is a public restroom near wher the buses leave you. Only the rooms are very small - there are 5 stalls - 4 of them literally have only a hole in the ground with a vent and handles on the walls. I lucked out with the one stall that had a real toilet but I could hear all the women talking and laughing. It was the funniest thing. Needless to say, I really did not drink much in Dubrovnik all day. Ha! Ha! Ha!

Tomorrow we are at sea! Till our next story
Lots of love to everyone!
Jeanne and Marty