We left early from Ston along the awesome coastal road to Dubrovnik, Admiring it from above as we passed it to stay at camping Kate, where we bagged a pitch and got ready to go to town.
We caught the water taxi from Mlini pier- an interesting experience, surprisingly there are still derelict buildings along the bays south of Dubrovnik, remains of the homelands war yet to be renovated despite the cities popularity.
The city walls loomed above us as we entered the harbor- you can see why game of thrones chose it for Kings landing! We ate our picnic lunch under the walls then headed off into the city to explore.
First job: find the entrance to the city walls. Not as easy as you would think. But it was worth the search, and the 250kn (about £30ish) per adult admission fee as they are super impressive, you can do a complete circuit of the old town with towers offering views of the clay-tiled roofs and little ‘Eddie houses’, or watch stations to most people, keeping the little man entertained along with obviously all the steps.
We grabbed ourselves a beer and and ice cream on the walls, Eddie finishing the latter with plenty of time for running around terrorising pigeons and tourists alike as we admired the view and pretended he wasn’t ours.
We headed back down to town in time for a pizza dinner before getting the bus back to the campsite.
We bussed it in again the next day to hit the cable cars that Eddie had been shouting loudly about from the walls all day yesterday. We grabbed ourselves some pastries and cold beers at a bakery opposite the cable car queue then had lunch admiring the view from the top of Mount Srd.
We wandered around the outside of the old fortress now war museum to the peak proper then got the cable car back to the city. There we had a pleasant mooch through the narrow marble-paved streets of the old town (Eddie’s fave new way to travel in Croatia is sliding- holding onto a hand each of mummy and daddy’s and basically being pushed along the shiny pavements).
On our wanderings we found a bar under the sea walls with a rather cliffy beach which we grown ups made the most of but what with the waves and the wakes Eddie declined to partake, instead ‘looking after’ Sammy and the beers in a shady cliff nook while us parents took turns to jump in for a swim.
Parenting Responsibly 