wwwmarge

Just booked Divina for Jan 31

Got 5% discount on top of the sale.

We are not cruising to Falmouth till next year. We are interested more in a sightseeing tour and have no desire to walk the Falls or swim or that. Just want to see some towns and history. Does anyone know of a tour like this?

I went to knowjamcica website from the suggestion above and they have a private tour for $35 pp if you have a party of 5 or more.

To WARMWWATERS or who ever can help.

http://www.caymanport.com/maps.htm

Could you help me locate the beaches that you have written about on your great post?

Marge

We were just in Dubrovnik and went up the cable car. Great views and a nice lunch in the cafe at the top.

The easiest way to get to the cable car station (providing you can climb a few steps) is to exit the old city at the Ploce gate. Walk up the hill keeping the city walls on your left. After a short distance you will see a carpark on the right hand side of the road. Walk across the carpark and by the pizzeria in the corner you will find a staircase which looks like it only leads to the outdoor tables but it will take you all the way to the base station.

 

Edited to add: the cost for adults is 73Kuna and they DO NOT accept Euros. They will take payment by credit card.

Are these the same directions just worded slightly different?

This is the best way to find the cable car entrance, also the easiest.

Walk to the far eastern entrance to the old town called the Ploce (plo-cha) gate.

Once you exit the last arch you will reach a road, there's a small cafe across called "Lara."

Make a sharp left and continue up the walkway with the city walls on your left. Cross over the road, away from the sea when you reach the very first road on the left.

Go up the road, past the fire station on your left.

At the intersection, turn right and the entrance is just a few feet in front of you. You can't miss it.

You mentioned the Rupe Museum so I googled it and found this site with absolutely stunning photos - of many places in the town! Whets the appetite, so to speak.

http://www.galenfrysinger.com/croatia_dubrovnik_museum.htm

What a great find. All of the pictures on that site are just awesome. Thanks!!!

Good Morning from Dubrovnik, this is a lovely way to watch sunrise. Hope you enjoy.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qn7zAHtFwR8

Very beautiful. Some of the other videos were very interesting. The one including shots of the 1991 war.

Marge, what a very good tip, the site of Dubrovnik, thank you so much!!!

Happy to pass it on. :cool:

Marge

I have corrected the names on the photos I was asking about.

Thanks .... just want I needed.

The cost for the cable car this year is 73 Kuna per person. It may be the same or a bit higher for next season, no one knows yet. Here is the site for the best tourist map of the old town and outlying area.

 

http://www.tzdubrovnik.hr/data/1198052158_49_mala_Plan%20Grada_2008.pdf

I hope I've attached two photos. Would you please verify the names of the buildings in them and the corresponding number from the above map.

Is there a picture of #33 Ft Lovrijena available?

Thanks,

Marge

Just wanted to let everyone know that we had lunch at Komarda restaurant, which is just outside the walls at the Ploce entrance. Read about this place on Trip Advisor in posts from our "local expert". We had a wonderful lunch of grilled squid. Afterward, we had planned on taking the ferry to Lokrum, but we saw people swimming just below the restaurant. We asked the waiter about it, and he said that we are welcome to swim there. So, some of us stayed at our table and drank some more :o while the others went swimming. It was such a wonderful place, with shaded tables, excellent food, reasonable prices, and a wonderful little swimming area. It was a great afternoon and one of our favorite days of our cruise!

Thank you what a great suggestion. Especially love the swimming part.

The best place to find accurate and up to date descriptions plus prices is our tourist bureau website. It is filled with valuable information for guests who wish to research Dubrovnik and outlying areas.

 

http://www.tzdubrovnik.hr/eng/index.php

Fellow CC posters be sure to go to the above sight, click HOME or just click this

Marge

Dubrovniktravelady - Thanks for cost of the cable car.

daryleann - Frommer's was a good help also.....I just hadn't had time to get to those kind of sites because this one has been so EZ. After going over the first map and then Frommer's and now the "new" one....... I pretty much know the old town. :confused:

So you don't really have to search anymore. I think I've got "it" until I get there and then we all know what happens then. :rolleyes: Help!!! Dubrovniktravelady where are you!

The best place to find accurate and up to date descriptions plus prices is our tourist bureau website. It is filled with valuable information for guests who wish to research Dubrovnik and outlying areas.

 

http://www.tzdubrovnik.hr/eng/index.php

Great map.....I was able to print it so I could read it. Thanks that was a BIG help.:)

"somewhere" I found a full list and description of attractions, with a cost (altho I don't know how recent) and saved the document. I will try to figure out which is which and # them... now if I could just figure out where I found it... with cut and paste, it is 4 pages, but almost as good as an audio guide.:cool:

 

Research over months makes this a real memory problem, which is why it gets spread out...:rolleyes:

Please pass it along when you locate it. I'm not in a hurry. As you can see below. I also have a lot of research on this port and haven't even started on the others for our July 9th cruise on RCL Voyager.

I do hope the CC cruisers come back and tell us..... who aren't going for 325 days (I think) ...how they enjoyed this port.

On one of the travel shows today had a small piece on Ravenna but not much info just on the one mosaic with Justinia and his wife.

When you get the map, center it on your monitor, then rt click on it and there is a selection for printing. I did it on draft, but it is still very dark. You then have to put some of the numbers in. It is a gif so it is constantly changing and depends on when it reads before it prints. (don't bother to zoom in, as you probably can't read Croatian any better than I can)

Hey, thanks a lot. I waited until all the numbers were showing and got lucky. Earlier I had printed just the list of numbers and now I got both.

CC folks come through again, and again.:)

Marge

Looking for info on Dubrovnik I came across this website www.audio-guide-dubrovnik.com offering audio guides to the wall and the town for 15 Euro. Has anyone used these guides? :confused:

I just took time to look at this link. WOW....it is a great help even if you don't rent the tapes. Go to the tours and it has a great map but you can't print it.

I've looked thru my notes and I don't see the cost of the Cable Car. What is the cost this year.

Thanks

Marge

Dubrovniktravelady - Good morning, yesterday I went to see this doctor for the first time and he is from Serbian. I mentioned that I will be in Croatia next year. He asked, what city? When I told him Dubrovnik he got a big smile on his face and said....."I spent my honeymoon there with this lovely lady (also a doctor). What a beautiful city." ;)

Sorry to hear about your knee. That makes me want to ask how is your city or country on medical care? As you probably know ours over here is in a big mess.

If someone from a cruise ship needed medical attention would they have any problems. This is always a worry as we get older. (71-79 years young)

Hope you recover with very little problems.

Hello Dubrovniktravellady!

You are certainly a wealth of information. I saw it asked in an earlier thread, but could not seem to find the answer, so I thought I would ask about Lokrum myself.

 

My husband and I want to walk the wall - I think we will be using that other entrance you recommended. Then we wanted to travel to Lokrum Island. We will be there on July 30th, on the Ruby Princess. Do you think we have enough time to do this? Also - are the beaches on Lokrum Island nice?

 

Thanks!!

Up in the right hand corner there is a box that reads SEARCH THIS THREAD. Put in what ever you are looking for..

There are no beaches as I understand on Lokrum. Stairs down to the rocky beach. Have fun and please let us know all about your ports of call.

http://www.lokrum.net/

http://www.panoramicearth.com/4796/Dubrovnik/Lokrum_Island_Fortress

marge

http://www.libertasdubrovnik.com/cabriobus.jpg

You may have heard the name of my town on TV or perhaps by somone who has visited here. The Croatian language is a soft sounding language, the alphabet is much like that of Italy, France and Spain. A B C is not pronounced hard such as the English version. Give this a try: Du-brov-nik

I got it.....thanks again.

http://www.travel-tidbits.com/tidbits/002636.shtml Great photo.

Sorry I don't have time to post the photo.

Maybe someone else could take the time.

marge

Hold the Mortar and Say Dubrovnik

Pero Carević (a Dubrovnik B&B owner) and Cameron Hewitt (co-author of my Croatia and Slovenia guidebook — just out in its first edition) met me at the Dubrovnik airport. Coming in from France, I suffered a little culture shock. Life here had the same energetic metabolism...but cheaper jeans, smaller cars, more broken concrete, and almost no fat people. Pale meat, pale pickles, and pale “juice drink” — all part of a tentative stability and affluence following their devastating civil war.

Within a few minutes' drive, we were parked at the towering base of Dubrovnik’s mammoth and floodlit walls. Pero walked me to his boutique guest house on a steep, tourist-free lane in Europe’s finest fortified port city.

Offering me some orakojvica (the local grappa-like firewater), Pero explained that he was wounded in the war but was bored and didn’t want to live on the tiny government pension — so he rebuilt his Old Town home as a guest house. Hoping to write tonight with a clear head, I tried to refuse the drink. But this is a Slavic land. Remembering times when I was force-fed vodka in Russia by new friends, I knew it was hopeless. Pero made it himself…with green walnuts. Giving me the glass, he said, “Walnut grappa — it recovers your energy.”

Pero described — holding the mangled tail of a mortar shell he pulled out from under the counter — how the gorgeous stone and knotty-wood building we were in suffered a direct hit in the 1991 siege of Dubrovnik. I didn’t enjoy touching it. The bedroom Pero grew up in was destroyed. His injury will be with him for the rest of his days. In spite of how those towering and mammoth walls were impotent against an aerial bombardment, life here was, once again, very good.

I took Pero’s photograph. He held the mortar…and smiled. I didn’t want him to hold the mortar and smile…but that’s what he did.