Dubrovnik, Croatia

Monday, December 31, 2012

Dubrovnik, Croatia

Dubrovnik, Croatia

Dubrovnik was a port of call on our first Mediterranean cruise in June, 2011. At that time we chose a shore excursion that took us to this beautiful city for only 45 minutes of exploration on our own. Afterwards, we went into the countryside to visit a Croatian home and enjoy some local food and drink. At that time it was the best tour of our whole cruise, but I was always sorry that I didn't have more time to photograph the Old Town of Dubrovnik.

This time, we didn't book a tour and decided to explore the city on our own and I am glad we did. We had time to explore the narrow, sometimes quite steep, streets and see things we didn't have time to explore before.
I photographed the front of this statue before (Click http://kbrucelane.blogspot.ca/search?q=dubrovnik and scroll down a bit) and thought I would photograph the back as well. It is a beautiful sculpture, but I think they should clean it off, especially in a few places!

I really liked the vase and flowers and it's setting and when I saw the photo I liked the contrast between the colours of the flowers and the background.

If you remember when I started sharing photos of our trip to Europe that I said I photographed many small cafés on narrow roads. Well, one photo shows people eating and drinking while sitting on the steps, which is really the street in one part of Dubrovnik. Today, I have uploaded several images of the narrow "streets" that are steps that go up to the top level of the city. I bet delivery persons in this city are in great shape!!

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