Gem of the Adriatic

Just a couple of photos of Dubrovnik, Croatia, where we spent two days. Again, it was broiling hot but nevertheless it was a wonderful city. We hadn't made hotel reservations prior to our arrival so we just drove around at first and we saw many people holding up signs advertising rooms to rent. We saw this one guy who looked just like our brother-in-law Garry and we stopped to talk to him. His name was Ivan and he assured us that the room he had was better than the Hilton. He was quite the salesman. All we cared about was that it had air conditioning and its own bathroom. He said it did and it turned out to be a room in a beautiful house only about a five minute walk to the old walled part of the city. And the air conditioning was excellent. So we took it for the whopping price of 100 euros for two nights. We found out later that the Hilton would have cost more than that for one night and I do believe that our room truly was better than the Hilton. Not only that, the Hilton charged 30 euros a day for parking. So it all worked out perfectly. We walked down into the old city and after awhile realized that we hadn't eaten anything all day so we went into a pub. Our waiter, who looked like he was all of 16, told us that Croatia was playing shortly in the World Cup so we were surprised that we almost had the place to ourselves with a big screen TV. Well, at exactly 5 minutes to 9:00 the place suddenly filled to standing room only and a rousing game against Australia commenced. People here in Europe are just rabid about football.
The next morning the heat was again doing us in but we tried to walk around the top of the wall around the old city. Half way around I just could not do it anymore. I was sweating more profusely than I ever had in my life. Honest! So we walked down into the city and found a wonderful little outdoor cafe called Aquarius where we had great fish and salad. There was a little breeze blowing through there so we recovered enough to go shopping and we took a boat trip out into the bay and around an island.