Do Dubrovnik by Quillian

My family and I visited Dubrovnik and Kotor. I will tell you about Dubrovnik. On the plane leaving Sri Lanka, my mom realized that our tickets transferring us from Paris to Dubrovnik were for May… but at the time it was early April. So, we had to quickly rebook new tickets while waiting for our luggage in the Paris airport. Luckily, it was much easer booking new tickets in France than it would have been in Vietnam.  If any of you guys want to fly from Paris to Dubrovnik this May, we have 4 free tickets available. 

When we landed in Dubrovnik, we took a taxi to the gate of old town.  It felt like a very posh car after spending so much time in the small, broken down tuk tuks of Sri Lanka.  We didn’t drive into Old Town with the car because no motor vehicles are allowed in Old Town Dubrovnik.  This was great and felt very calm after the busy streets of Sri Lanka. When we parked, we were right in front of a gelato shop and it was torture to walk past.  As we walked through the gates it was so pretty and castley.  I kept picturing a bunch of princesses walking through the streets. Everything from the streets to the walls were made of beautiful white and pink tinted marble. There was a large fountain you can still drink from today. This is where people from Dubrovnik got all their water before modern plumbing was recently installed.  It was awesome.  Even through they had recently gone through a war, there was not a lot of construction going on.  

The next day, we woke up and got gelato! I got lemon flavored and it was awesome! Then we left the walled city and hiked up a big hill of stairs to a different castle-looking building called a Keep.  It’s a place where knights can look out over the ocean and shoot arrows and help to defend the city. It was old and cool and had canons on top. There were also piles of stone bowling balls that were used for catapults.

After that, we returned to the walled city of old town and climbed up and walked around the top of the wall. The walls protect the city. If someone shoots at the city it will hopefully just hit the wall. Soldiers can move along the wall and shoot from above.  There are also small benches for soldiers to kneel on and shoot very long distances. Despite being built for war, this was all very beautiful and you can see for miles around! We walked all the way around the city performing a loop.

I kept hoping for a dungeon, and finally found one.  It was near the very end of our loop. It was one big room with many locked side rooms. The big room, I bet, held dragons😉. 

In addition to all the amazing stonework, within the walls  there are pretty restaurants and places to get drinks all over the place. We ate at several of these places. My favorite was the gelato shop near the front gate.  There are also many beautiful churches throughout the city. Some were huge but others were pretty small. There were also a surprising number of fruit trees including sour oranges, lemons, figs, grapes, and cumquats. 

In conclusion, it was all beautiful, fun and I think you too should do Dubrovnik.

Oh the nice streaks of Dubrovnik old town, so much calmer than Sri Lanka’s streets

Me getting my head chopped off 🤣 

The walls, beautiful sightseeing

The beautiful wall

The wall overlooking the cold cold ocean