Thursday, 26 May, 2016 – Dubrovnik
Weather report: Excellent
Today we are just roaming around Dubrovnik. Andrew will not join us at all. Julie and I start out early and get a breakfast from one of the many nearby outdoor restaurants.
We did not go back to that place again. Andrew has booked us a guide to show us around town. We meet her, she is on the phone and was for a significant part of the tour. Eventually the rest of the troops come down and the tour begins at the market in the square that lasts until around noon.
We must not have been that excited about the tour as neither Julie and I have any photos from it. One thing that the guide did do was introduce us to a wine shop, run by an Aussie, whith whom we could organise wine tastings.
The wine shop, and a brewery across the way were in one of the many narrow lanes with a large array of steps going up to the top of the wall. We move along another couple of lanes and decide to stop at one of the cafes for a drink.
We walk back towards our apartments but stop by the Hotel in town where Jan & Hugh will stay on Saturday night. BTW: while we were at the Hotel the nice lady receptionist booked a restaurant for the four of us that night. We then go around the corner and select an indoor bar which turns out to be attached to their hotel to be.
We had not eaten since breakfast so ordered some snacks. I ordered pork crackling which was just pork fat with no crackling and the guys had a reasonable cheese platter. We then go back to the apartments except that Julie prances around Dubrovnik and here are some of her photos.
We learned later that 6 cruise-ships were in port which made the town quite crowded. Apparently in August there may be as many as 9 cruise ships and it is virtually impossible to move with all the passengers crowding the streets.
Later, the four of us reform below to go to the wine tasting. We arrive there and Boris and Viktorya arrive a little bit later. Inside there are a number of cute sayings:
The drinks menu had three different kinds of flights of wine for tasting among other standard orders. The three were all Reds, which Hugh and I selected, a white, rose and a red that Jan selected and all Whites as selected by Boris and Viktorya.
We are guided through the tastings by the Aussie owner. He seemed to know his stuff as he had a lot to say about each of the wines. We eventually decide to buy an additional bottle of Red #1 to share to finish the tasting. Hugh does go across the way to get himself one of the brews. We say good night to Boris & Viktorya, who have booked into Restaurant 360, and head to our restaurant for the night, Proto a fish restaurant.
The Hotel receptionist had booked us into the favoured upstairs patio. The weather is still good so heaters were not necessary.
Well, that’s it for the night. The end of a pretty good day where we did nothing!
Editor’s note: this and the previous Post were prepared after we returned to Australia. Even then jetlag had set in and there was another 5 days before I got back into the swing again. I should be able to finish up the rest of the days, still a few to go, relatively quickly.
For those readers who have been following along as each part is Posted, I have gone back and did significant updates to the Post “Friday the 13th” and also important updates to “Goodbye Hungary …” to reflect the relationship with an Anthony Bordain No Reservations menu. Please have a look.