Photos: Dubrovnik, Croatia

Picture 1: Outside the old city's walls. The beautiful Adriatic on an absolutely fantastic day. The Sun was out, it was slightly cloudy, and everybody was about their business. Winter seemed to be a thing that never happened. You can see a fisherman in this pic. I'm not sure if he was looking for anything specific, but a few other people were out on these rocks fishing. We saw one guy catch a fish, unhook it and chuck it behind him into an alcove in the rocks. I felt bad for the fish and wondered why the guy didn't put him out of his misery, but I guess to each their own, culture-wise that is.

Picture 2: A view of the old city and a nearby island on our way up to the old fortress and museum at the top of the hill. It seems the first three places we were going to be at (Sarajevo, Dubrovnik and then Kotor) were going to have impressive hills that would provide awesome views. Can you make out the walls of the city?

Picture 3: The bay for the old city. Lots of little boats. This view is from up on the wall. You can actually take a tour of the city from the walls but it cost more than we wanted/had to spend so we were only able to be on a portion of the wall. Thankfully, it was one that gave a nice picture.

Picture 4: Outside the walls on the sea again. This time looking the other direction than the fisherman picture. Not much to say other than that there was really blue water below me.

Picture 5: The terrifying pigeons of a square in Dubrovnik's old city. It seems that everyday at noon, these pigeons will get fed a ton of feed. Starting about 1115 when the bells of the church ring every 15 minutes, every pigeon within earshot flaps its way to this square. This was the indication to me (thankfully) that they could not tell time. They came, they left. But then, it was noon and they came and so did a guy with a huge bucket who very ungracefully chucked it on the ground. The pigeons swarm to the very small area the feed is covering and I can only assume many are smooshed in the ensuing chaos. It is so chaotic that the feed is kicked up and moved around and so there is a wave of pigeons taking off and then landing and then taking off and landing and the whole group moves in one direction.