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Rt Bačela

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    • Day 49

      King's Landing (Dubrovnik & Lokram Islan

      August 15, 2023 in Croatia ⋅ ⛅ 27 °C

      Today we explored Dubrovnik old town which served as the set location for Kings Landing in Game of Thrones. I think this would have excited me more if I'd seen GoT properly but it was pretty cool with it without dragons. The morning was incredibly hot but we explored the old town and climbed up to a fort to look back over the whole city! It had big Split energy but it was built right on the edge of the cliffs (and wasn't as Roman 😔).

      In the afternoon we got a boat across a short channel to Lokram Island, a forested nature reserve just off the coast. The island promised a Dead Sea and we were hoping that Alfred might finally experience floating but it was not to be. There was a pretty cool cave though (stay tuned for Bailey's underwater camera pics). We had to leave after one of the Peacocks that inhabits the island yoinked Alfred's burek lunch 😠 so we instead set up on some stunning rocks on the edge of the island. It soon became apparent that we were right next to the jumping rocks so we did a couple of big leaps and went for a swim around the cliffs. We then hiked up to the highest point on the island (because Alfred is allergic to staying <100m above sea level for too long) and got the boat back just before the rain hit!

      We said goodbye to Bailey with a pub feed dinner and got our bags ready for our 9am flight to Greece tomorrow !!
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    • 5. den: GoT (Dubrovnik)

      October 13, 2021 in Croatia ⋅ ⛅ 17 °C

      Po vcerajsej prehliadke slnkom zaliatych mestskych hradieb zacal dnesny den zakupenim siltovky pre moju spalenu hlavu. Zopar dobrot v blizkej pekare a boli sme pripraveni a nabudeni na Game of Thrones prehliadku so sprievodcom. Nakoniec sa ukazalo, ze na dany cas sme si zakupili listky iba my, a tak sme mali sukromnu prehliadku :) Bolo to fantasticke. Zacali sme v Pilskom starom pristave, pokracovali pevnostou Lovrijenac, Starym mestom so schodami hanby a cele sme to ukoncili na ostrove Lokrum so zeleznym tronom. Spoznali sme kopec filmovacich miest, konkretnych zaberov, porovnavali filmove sceny s realnymi miestami. Boli to uzasne 3 hodiny s nasou sprievodkynou, ukoncene usadenim sa do repliky slavneho zelezneho tronu. Po GoT prehliadke sme este zotrvali na ostrove Lokrum, kde som si uzil oktobrove plavanie v Jadrane … pritom na celom severnom Slovensku dnes snezilo ;) Na ostrove su nadherne miesta na plavanie, vratane mrtveho mora … ja som si vsak uzil otvoreny Jadran pri cool skalnatom pobrezi. Plavanie sme ukoncili obcerstvenim v plazovom bare Lake Coctails Bar pri mrtvom mori (vyborny toast s prsutom a miesane drinky) a potom sup lodkou nazad na pevninu. Po zasluzenej sieste na izbe spojenej s ochutnavkou vyborneho ruzoveho vina Rusula z vinarstva Rizman, z plne rucneho zberu najznamejsej Dalmacijskej odrody Plavac Mali (zakupene cestou do Dubrovnika - vid. zapisky z 3. dna) sme dnes netradicne zvolili “inu” veceru, a to v Oyster & Sushi Bar Bota - podnik s jedinecnym konceptom fuzie Japonskej a Dalmacinskej kuchyne s vlastnou ustricovou farmou. Dali sme si sviezu kamenicu (ustrice), tuniakovy tartar, gambori (tygrie krevety) u tempuri, spring rolls “bota” (tuniakove filety plnene zmesou syra, oliv, zaudenej sunky, jarnej cibulky, pecenej v panko strunanke s wasabi majonezou) a agemaki fantaziu. Nasledne sme este prelozili tiger, rainbow a spicy tuniakovymi rolkami. Zapili sme vinom (pani M) a pivom (ja) a miesanym gin drinkom (ja). Potom uz len vecerna rozluckova prechadzka uchvatnymi ulickami Stareho mesta a pivko v miestnom Irish Pub the Gaffe. Zajtra nas caka rozlucka s milovanym Dubrovnikom a presun do Opatije.Read more

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