Card Player Cruises Mediterranean Cruise
Dubrovnik, Croatia, is considered the pearl of the Adriatic. Although
I am not sure what that means, it sounds nice and since I thought
that the city was nice, what the heck? After our whirlwind trip
through Europe, enjoying blue and sunny skies daily, the rains finally
caught up with us here, and we endured the biggest monsoon we ever
had seen. Our Card Player Cruises family couldn't complain, though.
Since the weather had been perfect up until this point, as well
as the following day at our final port of Venice, it provided some
good fun as we all got totally drenched. Famous 18-foot thick walls
and towers surround this city. These are impressive forts and lookouts
and remain one of the best surviving examples of a walled medieval
city. Centuries of war and natural disasters have hampered Croatia
(formerly Yugoslavia) yet she has endured and is almost a secret
to the outside world in her beauty, charm, and mysticism. Settled
in the 7th century, Dubrovnik is a port we would like to return
to and explore much further. |
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