Dubrovnik – (picture heavy)

We have been back from Dubrovnik for a few days now. All the washing etc associated with hol’s is now done and pictures are sorted so I am ready to share a few with you. I hope you enjoy

Oz having breakfast on our tiny, but pretty, balcony. Below was a tiny garden and then the city walls and the sea.
Views from our bedroom window the island on your right is Locrum Island.
Ozzies bedroom looked over the old town and out to the old town harbour.

and the views from the kitchen. It was hard to come home and look out of the window to just see other houses, after a week of these fantastic views.

VIEWS OF THE OLD TOWN taken on our tour of the old city walls.

the Maritime Museum and Aquarium just outside the city walls

looking down the main street of the old town inside the walls.(EDITED TO SAY) for some reason this picture shows blurred on my computer. I have tried removing and reloading but its still the same, however if you click to enlarge it then it will be perfectly clear again. Sorry about that.

Our tiny balcony view from the City Walls

Someone needed a rest
The old harbour. (There is a new harbour where the big cruise ships come in but it is further round the coast.)
You may now realise why we had such fantastic views, though there was a price to pay in the amount of steps we had to climb each night. I kept telling myself it was good exercise and I would lose weight. Exercise it may have been but I did not lose any weight in fact quite the opposite unfortunately – not that I would blame the best ice cream we have ever tasted it would have been sinful not to eat at least one everyday.

Breakfast in the old town

LOCRUM ISLAND

As we looked out over the beautiful Locrum Island every morning we had to take a ferry to see it at close range.  It is a lovely island with beautiful woodland walks and an old monestry.  Though I took lots of pictures most of them were too dark to see.  However I did manage a few of the lovely peacocks that roam everywhere.

Not always easy to spot when they are up in the trees
Many like this one seemed to be of a blue and white mix.

BOSNIA AND HERTZAGOVINA

We decided to have a day out and visit the historic city of Mostar, many people will remember this from the iconic bridge which featured so much on the news during the wars in the early 1990’s.

It was a wonderful day with stops at Ston and Han Positelj on the way to Mostar.

The Franjo Tudman Bridge near Port Gruz (where the cruise ships dock).

some pictures of our stop in Ston, the wall you can see in the background is 2nd only to the great wall of china and stretches for miles.

Han Positelj is just a tiny village but it was very pretty as most of the villages are in this region.

MOSTARr
The Iconic Mostar Bridge.

After the war the people of Mosta, wanted to replace there Iconic bridge, which had been blown up during the bombing. As they wanted to build in the way it had been done centuries earlier, they built this mini version first to practice the skills of times so long past.

Another thing this bridge is famous for is the divers and just in case you couldn’t spot this one (picture on the right) I blew up the relevant part for you on the left.

and one last picture of Us with our darling little!! grandson who will become a teenager later this month.

Thank you so much for taking the time to look at my pictures. I do hope you enjoyed them all.

Hugs