September 10, 2010
Dubrovnik, Croatia
What had originally drawn me to Dubrovnic was the ancient sea wall. I remember seeing scenes in the news of Serbian gunboats that that had sailed up the coast from Montenegro for the sole purpose if shelling the wall, not as a target of military significance, but as a cultural symbol.
Regarding walking the wall here, Rick Steves wrote that your choices are early, crowded, or hot. I seemed to achieve all three today. I was pretty disappointed at first. It did, however, reinforce how big the place is and showed a lot more residential areas. It also showed a not-so-clean-and-polished view of the back of some places.
Public Fountain. There was once an aqueduct system that brought water from 7km away. It started here in the city, then was piped through the rest of the town.
Then we came to the last side of the wall and the light was good, and the patterns and lines of tiles and walls intrigued, and the photographer’s eye (to the extend I have one) delighted. Well worth it.
So here, with no processing other than resizing for posting, are a few.
