Dubrovnik really is a or even the pearl of the Adria. It was my first time in Croatia and during a small Europe trip we drove down the Croatian coast from the north and it felt like Dubrovnik is the cultural escalation of the Croatian coast. Already on the way to Dubrovnik every stony bay with the cliffs and the green- blue water and small towns with red roods and a white church tower gets more and more beautiful. But Dubrovnik really is the peak of the beauty.

The street way takes quite long if you start like us in Poveč in Istria in the morning. It took about 8 hours of pure driving to reach Dubrovnik. The 15 minute drive through Bosnia and Herzegovina is unproblematic. It's only a short check of the ID at both sides of the border.

Reaching Dubrovik one already gets excited by the huge, modern bridge that one crosses to reach the city. We stayed overnight on Solitudo camping ground in Babi Kuk on a península from where you can jump into the Sea within 10 minutes at the beach but also reach the oldtown of Dubrovnik within a 15 minute bus ride fot 15 Kuna (2 €).

First we went on the city walls once around the old town. This offers fantastic photo opportunities of the Sea of red roofs below one but also of the Island of Lokrum and the fortifications of the city. It took us 2,5 hours to walk around where one could do it in 30 minutes withconstant walking. But you simply have to enjoy the views and I also checked the for free guide with explainations on which buildings can be seen. Most of the interestint ones are the different fortifications and all the sacral builduings whichs density reminded me of Jerusalem. Also one already gets Game of Thrones (GOT) vibes when looking over the old town, however we didn't spot any dragons flying around. ;)

After the city walls we took a small bath next to the Kayak renting next to St Lawrence fort as it was super hot on the defensive walls in the midday sun. After the refreshment we set over to Lokrum to visit the real GOT Iron Throne. It was super costful as Lokrum is a nature reserve and it costs 150 Kuna p.P. to even enter the island. Anf then the Iron Throne was only a replica from HBO and not the real one as it is standing in Belfast. We were a bit bad informed and disappointed. However the island and the trip to it is nice and offers some more nice photo shots of the old town of Dubrovnik.

We also visited the monasteries of the Domenicans and Franciscans which make a calm and mediteranean impression before doing a free GOT walking tour with our guide Darko through the old town that not only showed us were the series has been filmed but also gave us some flavour of the histor of the old town including the sad bombardement of the WHS in 1991 by Serbian troops that today only can be hardly seen. Also we were lucky to be not part of a huge human stream through the small medieval ways in the old town as Corona limited the amount of visitors. In the past it must have been hard to breath according to our guide due to the amount of tourists.

A nice final view we got the next day when looking from the top of the hill next to Dubrovnik back down to the old town. The view together with the Sea and the island of Lokrum is fantastic.