We are in Dubrovnik, Croatia for a little vacation and visa refresher. You may recognize the old city as King's Landing in Game of Thrones. The show seems to have been a great boost to the city's tourism, as there are film location tours and souvenirs everywhere and I've already spotted Jon Snow and Tyrion Lannister wax sculptures in shops.
Dinner of Dalmatian smoked ham and risotto stained black with cuddlefish ink.
The photo below is from the very nationalist Homeland War museum atop the ridge that overlooks the city. Dubrovnik was under siege by Yugoslav National Army in 1991 and 1992 in what they also call the War of Independence or War of Serbian and Montenegrin Aggression. The museum, a fort built by Napoleon's marshall in 1806-1812 that then served as a stronghold in the 1991 defense of the city (not the bullet marks behind me), has room after room of weapons from the war of independence and photos of Croatian soldiers looking brave (a disturbing number of them with a weapon in one hand and a beer toasting the camera in the other) and old ladies looking sad and the city's buildings and boats burning.
When we first arrived the weather was a perfect 80 degrees sunny and we were looking forward to just baking on the beach, but yesterday was rainy and cool and today looks to be the same, so it will be more culture tourism and soggy hiking until the sun returns.
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