Sunday night – Day in Dubrovnik

Wonderful day with my family in Dubrovnik.. THe place is crowded and beutiful. We spent our time finding places where the crowds werent.. no small trick

 

Before all the pics from today. a few from last night. Gabe, max and I went and walked around the city until abotu 2am.. Max and gabe went back out until about 4AM.. it was so great seeing theplace without so many people !

Here’s the castle behind us… It was used as ‘Kings landing’ in Game of thrones’   which was partially filmed here.

 

 

 

look how shiney the main street (Placa) is from so many hundereds of years of visitors.

\these stairs were used as ‘The Walk of Shame’ in Game of Thrones.’ 

 

so great being out with my boys late at night !

 

went back home and I slept till 9 AM !  latest I’ve slept in recent memory.. the boys.. both jetlagged.. slept well past 11

by the time we ate.. it was noon.. a busy time to enter the old city

 

 

eeeeek !

 

first scene was a mass of bees on a stone wall.. how wierd.. are they Wall-o-bees ?

 

then a tour of the museum of pharmecy.. most memorable there.. here’s a shell impact from the 1991 war

 

the chrch next door

 

then the old synagoge.. moving display of the lead up tot eh holocost

 

my phones attempt to translate the order that Jews must wear armbands..

 

then a late lunch or early dinner.. yum !

 

squid ink rissoto!

 

lunch involved several tour groups.

 

then more walking

a wedding !

 

we started the walk aroudn the wall at 5..   first.. a nap!

 

there are still damaged buildings from the 1991 war.

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another Game of THrones Scene identified  .. “the house of the undying’

 

 

Befo

 

 

 

the main street from the wall

 

the map of all the buildings damaged in teh 1991 war.. 70% had damaged roofs !

 

another game of thrones scene sight

 

heading out.. we came across a beekeeper who was moing the bee swarm we saw earlier.. Very cool closure to the day

 

 

wow.. so many pictures.. hope no one minds.. what an amazing place to visit.

more tomorrow !
nite all, nite sam

-me

Saturday night – Split personality

Dobro večer from Dubrovnic, Croatia. Diane and I jsut got back from picking up Max at the airort.. so the four of us are all together in this very interesting part of the world.

we got to Split last night with Andrej and Peter.. We were all so tired we all went to our hotels and went to bed. Diane and I woke up aroudn 8 and went for a short run. we couldn’t beleive how big and busy Split was !

 

the Place has been turned in to a huge mall full of trinket stores and snack shops.. it’s really too bad.. it would have been so much more beutiful without all the commercial stuff.  even so.. the old buildings were pretty cool  Too many folks for me to hang out for long there, though

 

wegot ot the ocean.. and again. it was a zoo !. huge ships, tons of people. good for a few minutes of sightseeing.. but i had all I needed in 10 minutes

 

we found a little bit quieter path back to the house through town which was nice..

 

there were some great markets already opened in the early morning

 

we foudn a little bit of green too !

 

here’s our really wonderful hote. Apartman Fonte.. and very ice Varto who runs it. THe place was his grandparents ad is more than 150 years old.

we got a taxi down the coast a bit to pick up our rental car. Jelena from LastMinte rental was just so much fun !

 

we then took off for the 3.5 hour drive towards Dubrovnik

 

that involved a short drive in and out of Bosnia.. We put a smastone there at a small market. 

 

the market provided good driving food .. like ketchup flavored peanuts !

 

we got to dubrovnick airport just in time to meet gabe’s pane 

 

we got to our Airbnb.. such a beutiful spot. First act was a toast !

 

here are the views from our apartmet

 

here’s the back of our place

 

 

right behind us is a castle which is ‘Kings Landing’ in Game of thrones !

 

the view from up there was insane !



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some sort of party goign on !



ok.. Now going to go exploring the old city with Max and Gabe !

nite all, nite sam

-me

Friday afternoon – Green dragons

Nice rainy day in Ljubiana.. such a beutiful city.. I had  a big meetign this AM at IBM..  Freind Tanya picked my up at 7:15

but was ‘home’ by 10. We packed up and moved out of our Airbnb at Mistri Trg 6… great place.. We pent the rest of the day wanderign around in the rain..

 

First stop

 

we wandered round the veggi market in vodonik trg

 

at noon we met up with my old friend Ana from ‘Take a bite out of sceince’ the scien show on SLO TV> We met several years ago at an IBM event.

Diane and I really enjoyed talkign to her about her show.. and the challenges of making sceince  fun ..

 

she took us to see her work

we peaked inside soem of the other studios

crazy thing is Ana’s cousin is a good freind of my brother Billys in Houston. Tiny world !

 

We stopped by a small museam about a race.. and enjoyed seeign google mistranslate the posters..

(Note.. no slovenian support)

 

ok. Andrej’s here.. we’re off to croatia !. more from the road !

nite all, nite sam

-me

Thursday night – all over slovenia

I had a very busy day for soemthign that was supposed to be a vacation day. Started with a client meeting about 80k away, then a visit to a high scho. then luch at a catle, thena meetign at IBM.. then a meeting with a group of young professionsals. 12 hours long.. and I’m beat.

I did get sto see a bunch of this beutiful contry and its wonderful folks

 

here are soem quick pics of the day

here’s the high school i visited

super tired..

more tomorrow from the road

nite  all, nite sam

-me