Because a lot of the homes in this part of the world are up steps and narrow streets, rubbish trucks don’t come to your gate so residents take their rubbish to the nearest neighbourhood bins. That has been the situation everywhere we’ve been except Milan. Not very pretty seeing them on the streets though. This is the one in front of our apartment building in Split.
New Years Eve, we had planned to go down to our local cocktail bar but as it was around 0 degrees we stayed in but we were pleasantly surprised to see a stunning fireworks display from our kitchen window looking out over the harbour. We have video but no pics
Oh, another back to the 80s thing, when I was at the DM Drogerie (a chain of retail stores in 12 European countries which sells cosmetics, healthcare items, household products and health food and drinks. The company was founded in 1973. I miss it now we’re in Montenegro) anyway I saw someone buying an Old Spice gift box. I remember wrapping those perfume gift boxes when I worked at the pharmacy back in the 80s. The teen boys bought Brut and then men, Old Spice.
Also, I saw a man driving with a small child on his lap and children in the back seat of the car without seatbelts on. We were doing that up until the 80s, right?
On 6 January We walked to the Konzum supermarket only to find it closed then learned that 6 Jan is Epiphany Day in Dubrovnik where they commemorate the 3 wise men visiting Baby Jesus and everything’s closed. And of course everything is closed Sundays but on the upside most shops are open until at least 8pm every other day.
The highlight of Dubrovnik and Croatia in general was walking the Walls of Dubrovnik which are a series of defensive stone walls surrounding the old city of Dubrovnik. Ramparts were built in the outlying areas of the city, including the mountain slopes as part of a set of statues from 1272. The existing city walls were constructed mainly during the 13th–17th centuries. The walls run an uninterrupted course of approximately 1,940 metres in length, encircling most of the old city, and reach a maximum height of about 25 metres. Of course we’d already visited Old Town a few times but Wow.This is definitely one of our favourite things we’ve done. So cool to see the town from above and the Adriatic Sea and we marvel that people live there. Amazing. Breathtaking. A little girl said to her Mum, “I’m going to see the princess” Awww I asked if I could see the princess too. She wasn’t sure haha. There were so many steps and just when you thought this must be the best viewpoint, you’d find even more steps and a better viewpoint.
After that we went to a restaurant and were seated next to Lindsay the cat.
And that ends our 90 days in the Schengen area. Next stop Trebinje for a week.
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