To The Walls!

So the city of Dubrovnik is surrounded by some honkin walls.  It has been a seaside fortress since like the beginning of time.  We are staying inside the old city while we are here and although it is pretty touristy, it is also kind of unbelievable.  In our country, we just have no notion of what "old" really is.

In order to blog from here, I have to use a different platform than usual (which is why the pics may look a little funny?), and I'm not able to use photo captions.

This is the rooftop terrace where we have breakfast, and also where I mostly do my homework:

Here is a view of it from the city walls--not bad huh?!

The walls are high, thick, and generally enormous.  They are a feat of architecture any way you look at it.  Napoleon was so impressed by Dubrovnik that he built two fortresses here, just in this one little area.

We even saw some American celebrities!

As you can see, it's not very picturesque or anything.

In the early 1990's there was a war all up in some of these Slavic countries.  Basically, Croatia declared itself independent from communist Yugoslavia, and then Bosnia (which is just right over the hill, you can see it from here) bombed the hell out of it, including this old area of Dubrovnik.  Obviously, aside from the horror of war, it was a travesty that they repeatedly bombed this architectural jewel.  The people here hid in the wells, and inside the strong arches of the alley ways.  Many shop keepers we have talked with have told us similar stories.  It's hard to imagine...

I will pay you $1,000 if you'll write my next paper for me.

Until tomorrow, peeps!