Dubrovnik
Travel Blogs from Dubrovnik, Croatia
Clear water
... our ferry tickets to Split. Our evening meal was an extravagant affair by the standards we have been setting here in Dubrovnik. The price almost equaled Swiss prices, however, the meal was enjoyable and the setting was very good. We ...
Croatia
I was unsure of what to expect in Croatia. Seeing it from the ship it was very beautiful. White houses with terracotta orange roofs. The city was very clean and the people very ...
Yesterday Kotor,Today Dubrovnik...
I'm writing this in an internet cafe in Dubrovnik, an ancient walled city, every block of which goes straight uphill, with wonderful vistas of old stone steps and billowing laundry from the walk along the top of the high stone walls. If ...
sail Croatia - Day # 3 (& independently)
We arrived at Dubrovnik in the middle of our cruise tour and everything we've seen so far, pales in comparision. We're here for two half days which is enough time to see the city, but definitely not enough to absorb the atmosphere. Our boat docked in ...
Spent a few days RnR in Dubrovnik
We sailed down the most of the coastline, stopping at towns & islands along the way until we arrived in Dubrovnik. It's a great city with the entire old town enclosed within a huge wall & dedicated a World Heritage Site. I walked all around the ...
Mmm! Food!
... the equation and summed it with a bit of research in the local library and wah-la, the answer I came up with was ... Croatia! This was the first time I'd ventured somewhere on my own to a country where I didn't speak the language. OK, so I ...
Dubrovnik
We went to the old walled city of Dubrovnik today. What a fascinating and neat place if you ever get a chance to visit! It's full of twisting, narrow streets, and surrounded by a wall that varies between 6 and 30 feet thick. I went up on ...
Another new country - Croatia
10/31- Dubrovnik, Croatia - High above the chimney tops..that's where you'll find me. Ahhh, from Greece, next we sailed along the coast of Eastern Europe and stopped to explore another new country...Croatia. She sits across the Mediterranean Sea ...
Dubrovnik
We sailed into Dubrovnik in the morning light. It's a spectacular City in an imposing setting surrounded on one side by looming mountains and the other side by the island-dotted calm Adriatic. Cruise ships and ferries lined Gruz harbour. I'd booked a ...
Pearl of the Adriatic
After leaving Kotor, Montenegro, we jumped on an early bus which brought us to Dubrovnik, Croatia. This is southern part of the Dalmatian coastline with over 1000 islands in this region, it's a big tourist spot and we were there at the highest tourist ...
Croatia
i got to check out croatia after quitting my yacht job that had me sailing around the med during the summer of 2005. i didnt know much about the place, except that it was close to where i happened to jump ship in northeast italy. i was very pleasantly ...
Orange roofs, oranges, and an old walled city
Flat Stanley here in the old city of Dubrovnik, Croatia. Today I went out with my friends Trish, Rodin, and Homa to the old walled city and walked all the way around. It was really cool being up high above the city. I looked down at all the ...
Dubrovnik - Day 2
... ; huge stoned walls that normally towered above us. As tourists scuttled in lane ways below we watched the old local Dubrovnik women hung washing from ropes at their windows & watered colourful pots of flowers on their little terraced gardens. ...
Beautiful, despite the artillery wounds
... a disco in the 1980s before reverting to its original military purpose in 1991, when it was successfully held by Dubrovnik's defenders. Unfortunately a lot of the displays and photos have not been translated into English so we couldn't gethte fully story ...
Fun, scenic walk on the wall
A must-do that takes about 2 hours to go all the way around, with many steps up and down with great views in all ...
Old Town Tour Dubrovnik
... water going from grave to grave. We met our guide -Maksamillion Millosovich - and he filled us in on the history of Dubrovnik and Croatia. It is amazing to listen to. Our country's total history is 250 years. They had conflict with just the Turks ...
Robin Hood and Tarzan Walking thru the Forest
... comfort when the occasional high wave hits. Such was the nature of the scampering about that Ian and I partook during our 3 days in Dubrovnik. Ian is an incoming Junior at UC Santa Cruz whom I met waiting for the ferry from Bari, in possession of a ...
Day Two Dubrovnik Tour of Countryside
... town and all along the coast. Fort Imperial was built in 1810 during Napoleon's occupation. It was also strategic to the defense of Dubrovnik during the recent conflict. There is a war museum inside of it now. It was sobering to see. Dub had been telling ...
Best stop
Dubrovnik is really nice. Did the walk along the wall though heat was a killer. Had the best night out here, drank far too much though and paid the ...
Dubrovnik
... them under the Split, Hvar, and Korcula entries. I hope you enjoy. I arrived in Dubrovnik yesterday. Dubrovnik is pretty awesome. It is my favorite city in Croatia. The old town is ringed by a fortress and you can walk the entire perimeter of the ...
A European Jewel
A city state until the early 20th century, Dubrovnik is an incredibly beautiful old world city on the southern tip of Croatia. Mols and I jumped in the Lada and made our way down to view the city's famous walls, which are massive! We stayed a night ...
Hello...Is it me you're looking for???
... wine at 7 am. When I was hungry, you gave me saschertortes of many splendors, and prosciutto to my heart's content. Oh Dubrovnik, in following your speed limits, we do not give kickbacks to corrupt policija. Rather, we spend freely on pasta and ...
Dubrovnik
... through Old Town, with souvenir shops, banks, cafes on both sides. Lokrum is one of the favorite excursion destinations in Dubrovnik. It takes only 10 minutes to get there from the city harbor. Lokrum special attraction is a small lake, Mrtvo More ...
Beautiful Dubrovnik
Well today I am heading to Zagreb. Dubrovnik has been amazing. Such a beautiful city with it's walled old town. So many photos taken of beautiful buildings and quaint little streets. Yesterday we went up and walked around the walls before the heat of the ...
I heart Dubrovnik!
... gelato). For dinner this day, we ate near our hostel at a sea side restaurant which was also amazing. Pretty much everything in Dubrovnik was amazing! Infact I don't think there's much else to say but I'm sure the pictures will tell more of the story. ...
the city of fine people
... renting private rooms. i coul make a good deal for 100 kuna (13 euros) for a single room, because it was quite late. Dubrovnik, the city, is amazing beautiful but also very fine.. In the evening it looks like everybody goes to a ball.. As a backpacker, ...
Banishment and the walls
... "would you do this in your country!? I pay for this water! NEVER COME HERE AGAIN!" so the tale of our banishment from Dubrovnik has been a joke for a few days now... We thought it had clouded over a little and decided to walk to city walls, though the ...
Dubrovnik
... Split. You have to drive past all the different islands along the way down. We were staying at a camp site past Dubrovnik, once you drive past Dubrovnik and look back there are wonderful views of the old centerer and the historic port. ...

