Day 3, May 14, 2014
Last night, we had a thunderstorm and heavy rain, off and on
most of the night. I slept for 11 ½ hours and we both had a lazy morning waiting
for the rain to stop. It gave me time to go through all the pictures Jill and I
took – over 200! We made breakfast at home with soft boiled orange-yoke eggs on
fried bread (that Jill handily scrounged from the bread basket at our dinner
last night). These eggs are just called eggs, or as Jeannette calls them, happy
eggs.
The rain stopped by 11:30am
and we ventured out to take the cable car up to the top of Mount
Srd (412 metres). We wanted to visit the War
Museum on the summit to better
understand the homeland war of 1991-1995. The cable cars do not run when the
winds are too strong. Once we came out
of the museum, the wind was cold and strong.
When we opened the door to the main building there was a long lineup,
which meant the cable cars had stopped running and everyone was waiting for vans
to take us back down the mountain. It
was a hairy ride with single lane hairpin turns, an added adventure. Surprisingly it was not windy at the bottom.
We headed home to put on socks and warm up with some wine before venturing out
for some pasta.
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| On the way up |
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| The old city |
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| Looking south |
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| Looking south |
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| Windblown and cold Jill |
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| Joker |
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| The mountains south |
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| Mountains north east |
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| New town Dubrovnik looking north west |
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| Hallway in museum in Fort Imperial at the top of Mount Srd built by in 1806-1816 during the Napoleonic Wars. |
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| Destruction during the war of 1901-1905 |
The many stairs taking us back home
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