Dubrovnik Old Town

Heeding Nobby's comment about tourists in Dubrovnik Old Town, my humans decided that I would not be backpacked into that melee. Instead I guarded the apartment and contemplated the view from one of our windows.

This is my postcard, delivered to me in person on their return.

Not so many tourists in October; better in that respect than Chania in Crete. There is probably loads on t'internet about Dubrovnik Old Town. F merely told me that in her limited travels and visits to British and European 'old stuff' she has never seen a place of that age so complete, maintained, kept in good repair, and so true to style. It looks consistently old everywhere. If you go there be prepared to climb steps......lots of them.

She was impressed by the counted thread needlework which she saw being done right there by the women selling it. No pattern to work from, just weaving the needle back and forth row after row and creating perfectly double sided patterns. That perfect double-sided-ness is a feature of Dubrovnik style they told her. Mr B told her to make a short video but she didn't like to without buying some of the craft.  (She has cupboards full of needleworked cloths made by her mother and grandmother.)

So you get a picture from a shop designed to torment Mr B instead:

People live in the Old Town but it isn't really a town; it's a tourist attraction. You could buy wine, artisan food, fashion clothes, jewellery, trinkets and postcards. You would struggle to find a shop selling microwave ovens, work boots, catfood, garden supplies, a plastic bucket and mop.... All that might be there, but if so it's well hidden.

My humans sat on a roof top cafe thing and consumed an overpriced (for what they got) repast before clambering onto a No 4 bus and coming back. At least the rooftop was above the scrum in the street below.

Croatia will become a Euro currency country on 1 January 2023. Kuna is the currency today.

Dubrovnik Old Town in the middle

In other news I have studied the large piebald feline and negotiated a truce

His house, I'm just visiting. His orange mate isn't nearly so Zen.  The houseowners enticed the orange one indoors for a little smakeral and closed the door. We won't be bothering each other.

F built me a fortress on the patio sofa.