Dubrovnik Day 4

Hello from windy and rainy Dubrovnik!

I finally slept and it was *wonderful*. Oh yes, sleep rocks. I woke up at 7:30 feeling nice and rested. We ate breakfast at the apartment of some bread, ham, cheese and coffee/tea and took our time getting ready. We walked around a bit then met Alberto in the square by our apartment around 10 to meet up for coffee and to pay him.

It started to rain as we sat there. We got a couple of coffees and talked with him for a while. He was born here and grew up here. Such a nice guy! We really lucked out staying at his place. The apartment was a little more than many of the places we saw, but has a private deck and two bedrooms along with a full kitchen, which is nice.

We ran over to the Rector's Palace and museum for a tour of the art work there. http://www.dubrovnikcity.com/dubrovnik/attractions/rectors_palace.htm It's a beautiful building and had some impressive artwork that was very religious in nature-- not my thing, but an impressive collection.

We left and decided to do some shopping for people, then got lunch at a pizza place called Mea Culpa. It was pretty good, and we got a spicy pizza and a salad along with wine and beer (of course.) We walked along the Sradun and through many of the side streets. I think we've walked most of the streets in the city by now. We had thought about going to the island but since it was pouring much of the day, we decided not to.

Our ticket to the Rector's palace got us into two more museums, so when we saw the Maritime Museum, we decided to go in. It was interesting, and there were a lot of pictures and replicas of old boats from Dubrovnik, from sailboats to steamboats, as well as the tools found on board and paintings of the boats and people who were on them or financed them. We walked around the old Port for a while, and it stopped raining for a little bit. Saw cats sunning themselves on the benches around and did some people watching.

We decided to do a quick tour of the Cathedral which is near our apartment and a really large building with the bell that we here frequently. The bell rings at really odd times-- sometimes on the hour, sometimes on the half hour, and other times at seemingly random times. It's very strange though I'm sure there's some logic to it!

We made our way back to the apartment as I crashed and needed to lay down for a few. The store was now closed unfortunately, I guess it closes early on Sunday. I wanted to pick up the yummy cranberry tea in the apartment but no luck, and Michael is out of beer. Bummer. So we went back to the apartment. I woke up freezing and apparently the wind was blowing quite hard now and blew open the window to my room. Brrr!!!

Alberto told us he works at the Irish pub tonight and suggested we go down for a drink and to listen to some live music. Oh, ok! Why not, right?

There's not much more to see here, so we're enjoying some laziness. We fly to Amsterdam early tomorrow, on a 6:30 am flight. Ick. We get in late morning and will have most of the day for me to explore. Michael will work and we'll meet up later in the day for dinner.

We'll head out for dinner in a bit, but probably a light one. We found out that the mussels we had on the first night are fished from the river north of here, and we passed the fishing beds on the way to Mostar yesterday. They were really good so we may get some more of those. Yum!

We are up early and will be out tonight so signing off for the day. I'll try to write more tomorrow and will start my recommendations list in the meantime. :)

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