Day 19 - Dubrovnik

I stayed in bed till 9 this morning. Nothing planned for the day. Wandered into the old town for breakfast. . . well, brunch. I had meat lasagne with mushrooms. The waiter repeated it back as "lasagne with meat mushrooms." On the whole, their English is excellent, but there's always little things that just ain't right. Here are three pictures taken from my seat during my meal.







More wanderings through the back streets, up many staircases which are the streets. The city was originally founded on an island, and it was called Ragusa after the rocks. Eventually, a city sprang up on the mainland, just across the channel, and it was called Dubrovnik after the trees. The channel was then filled in and paved over to become the main street in the city, and the city walls go up and around both hill towns. In the 1800's, the city was the independent Republic of Ragusa and was pretty much Venice's only trade competition in the eastern Mediterranean. But a combination of an earthquake, Ottomans, and other trade routes to the east finally brought the city under the rule of the Turks. But they didn't convert to Islam, like some of their neighbors further inland.

Hm... I wonder what I'll do this afternoon.