We only spent 4 days in Croatia, 5 if you count travel, but it was such an enjoyable time and the souvenir I brought back was pictures, so sit back and enjoy a three part blog post about out trip to Croatia!
We took a car ferry from Bari, Italy ( a 2.5 hr drive from home) The ferry left at 10pm and arrived in Dubrovnik Croatia at 8 am. so we slept on the ferry which was interesting because wile we purchased seats for our journey, (there were no cabins left) there were plenty of people who just booked passage and they chose to put air mattresses on the deck, or bring a blanket and snuggle up on top of the life jacket boxes. As you can see the chairs were not the most comfortable way of traveling and Seth and Paige gave them up for the floor.
It was a fun trip to walk the deck and see the stars and the lights of Italy getting farther away and sailing off into pitch blackness towards a country most of us had never seen before. (Dan has been stationed in Bosnia which is a very close neighboring country. which we passed through for a short while on our trip)
This is the port of Dubrovnik. It was a beautiful sight to wake up to as we pulled into port and docked the ship ready for our adventure!
We both started and finished our trip in Dubrovnik. After we got off the boat we drove nearly 5 hours north to start our vacation, and then the next day down to split and then after that back down to Dubrovnik and that is when we took these pictures.
Dubrovnik is a small town, but it has a giant walkable wall that surrounds it. It was build as a fortress in the early 7th century and was never breached. In 1979 it was made a UNESCO world heritage sight. Some of the homes inside of the fortress suffered some damage during the Balcan war.
This what the inside of the city looks like. I am sure at a time this was a very safe place to live and people were very grateful for the tight community. Now I wonder how they do it. With all the stairs and houses right on top of each other. It is full of restaurants and has its own church and plenty of houses!
Croatian food is pretty much meat and potatoes and we enjoyed many forms of it while we were visiting. They also eat a lot of fish as the entire country is a sliver of land that runs the coast line.
We got up early and walked the wall before all of the tourists were awake and the morning was just beautiful and it took about 2 hours to circle the whole city on its wall. It has beautiful views and a very interesting peak into an old world way of life.
Awesome!
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