Hello Dubrovnik!

Arrived here at 5pm on Tuesday 18/9 after 3 planes from Vancouver and a bus to the Old City, wonderful vistas along the coast road but many steps inside the Pile Gate and along the Stradun to the apartment thru the main market square and up by e Spanish steps. Enjoyed a classical concert by the Dubrovnik Symphony Orchestra in Rektor's Palace with its open roof to the skies above - amazing!
This morning hit the trail around the city walls - above a sea of terracotta roof tiles and church spires with the dazzling Adriatic beyond. Vibrant street life below and the aroma of cooking fish in the hazy summer air. Plenty of tourists abound, Brits and Germans mostly. Cares and boutiques and flocks of pigeons overhead. Kayakers out on the calm waters, happy faces and a sense of well-being in such an historical place whose recent history was so appalling but seems to be thankfully fading with time.