Greencaviar Travel

Aside from being charmed by Dubrovnik scenic landscape, the fairy-tale like atmosphere, seaside views and rich history through its architecture and museums, we had a chance to experience the Dubrovnik Food Festival. We did not plan for this trip to coincide with the Food Festival, so the foodie scene was a very pleasant surprise. It's said that the Dubrovnik Food Festival is a yearly event that occurs the last days of October when the tourist season is winding down. Before closing for the winter season, dozens of quality chefs from famous restaurants and hotels prepare food from small bites to gourmet offerings for a small fee (30 Kunas, equivalent of $5.50) and work with event organizer to use the money for charity. So it was the perfect way to indulge in the city’s greatest restaurants for a small amount. In addition to tasting our way of sampling the local food, the festival featured music and traditional pageantry (for lack of a better word). The pageantry and announcem...

I can’t imagine being in Dubrovnik in the summer.   We were there when the tourist season was winding down, but it was still crowded.   Yes, Dubrovnik is very touristy and rightly so.     It’s a city with an unforgettable setting of both the land and sea:   nature, islands, imposing architecture, a medieval fortress, and the mighty walls.   It’s like a setting from a fiction novel.   Oops… that’s right, it was the setting of the popular TV series, “Game of Thrones” 5 th season.   [If you were a fan of the show, you’d probably recognize the “King’s Landing”. While it was a photographer’s dream to capture the landscape of both the land and sea from a scenic lookout, the Old Town is the heart of the city.    Accompanied by a local guide, we entered the old town and walked through the main promenade lined with palaces of Renaissance and Venetian gothic architecture from the 15 th – 16 th century, a reminder of its former glory. ...