Day: June 7, 2024

Croatia, etc. Day #3 “The Boy Needs Some Sleep”

by reissmd, posted in Dubrovnik

This morning we awoke, sleep-deprived but ready for our first full day of the tour. 

Before stepping outside the hotel, we headed down for breakfast. As promised yesterday, here are some photos.  The buffet had a variety of offerings,

Scrambled eggs
Sauteed mushrooms.
Grilled tomatoes.
Choice of meats
Juices
Pork or Chicken Sausage
Lucious pastries

We were also given some menu item choices IN ADDITION TO THE BUFFET.

Patrice ordered an omlette with mushrooms and cheese (I had that yesterday).
I had the Eggs Benedict. They use toast instead of an English Muffin.

After breakfast we were on our way to discover Dubrovnik.  We toured the town with our local guide, Petra, and learned all sorts of interesting facts that promptly entered one of my ears and flew out the other side.  I did retain one fact, how to identify a Croatian woman. Here are the simple steps. 

  1. Beautiful 
  2. Wears sunglasses over the eyes or on top of their head. 
  3. They don’t smile 

With that in mind I spent the majority of the day deciding if the women we saw were Croatian or not. Patrice got annoyed that I was looking at all the women but I explained this was just scientific research. 

We took a cable car to the top of the local mountain to see a spectacular view of the town. 

View of the Old Town from the mountaintop cable car station.
At the mountaintop with Lokrum Island in the background

We then took a walking tour of the Old Town which we learned if you call it “Old Town” it’s because you are a tourist.  Locals merely refer to it as “The Town”.  It was very hot in Town  today and I still hadn’t adjusted to the time change so I was exhausted.  We then had some relief in the form of a boat ride up and down the coast. We saw some people sunbathing but it was hard to tell if the women were locals. (Patrice here:  Yes it was hard to tell if the women were smiling because he was too busy looking at their butts.  He will pay!)

Next we took the air conditioned bus to lunch. Food was great plus there was some traditional dance and music supplied as entertainment.  

Finally we took a ride to hear a woman talk about cultivating worms in order to make silk. I have to admit I don’t remember much of what she said because I kept dozing off. I did grab a couples of photos.

Globs of silk produced by the worms.
The little worms hard at work.

I only caught bits and pieces of the talk but the work sounded quite involved. She talked about feeding mulberry ever few hours and needing to change the sheets where they are housed every day. It sounded like having a newborn.

After the talk we headed back to the hotel where I needed a nap. I am writing now pre-nap. If I wake up in time I will send you some notes about dinner but I think it is more likely that that won’t happen until tomorrow.

Pleasant dreams.