Day 13 Dubrovnik

We walked. Explored unexplored parts of the city. On the morning walk, we stopped at a travel agency and booked an all day tour tomorrow to Montenegro (a bordering country). Then, we went to lunch at Lady Pi Pi, named for the obscene statue in front. We were lucky to get a table without waiting. The food was slow but good and plentiful. Then we went to the harbor and took a boat ride to a nearby island of Lokrum. The boat ride is only 15 minutes, but it’s a nice escape from the city and the crowd. The island is a nature preserve with lots of small stony “beaches” and magnificent ruins of a 13th century monastery, which was later converted to a summer retreat for the Habsburgs and most recently used as a location for the Game of Thrones. There is an official Game of Thrones welcome center in the island, with multimedia displays from the sets and a replica of the throne. They’ve been filming this series all over Dubrovnik (and also in Split and Sibenik) and there are Game of Thrones tours of the city, which seem to be quite popular. We spent about 2 hours on the island and when we came back, we found a furry visitor on our little patio --- a cat was sleeping in one of the chairs. Cats are everywhere here, even inside restaurants or sleeping in the midst of the hordes of people on the main drag. They are totally unfazed, well fed and content. We’ve seen a lot of cute little kittens too.