Friday, June 22, 2007
Dubrovnik
We found a campsite in Dubrovnik and met another British couple on site called Janet and Martin who have done the same as us and given up their jobs and sold their house to fund the trip. They gave us much advice and reading material on Slovenia and Croatia and it was so good to find other like-minded people risking it all for a great adventure.
We visited Dubrovnik in the afternoon when it was hot and humid. We did the touristy thing and traversed the walls. The views were great and the now repaired city, after the damage from the recent war, looks beautiful with its terracotta roofs and stone walls. If you look closely you can still see some damage left by the recent conflict, we passed one house still marked with bullet holes and there are a few houses that have not been repaired.
A few days later we drove along the Peljesac peninsula and visited Ston which boasts the largest fortified walls stretching 5.5km, second only to the Great China Wall. A large section of the wall goes up a near vertical mountainside.
