While I was walking on a rather quiet street, I noticed a group of men playing cards and thought that would be an amazing picture. At first, I was just pretending to take a picture of the landscape just to gather some courage; after few seconds I just smiled at one of them and asked if they were up for a picture. They all laughed and agreed (or at least that’s what I understood, they spoke mainly in Croatian).
Sometimes it seems hard to take pictures of strangers, but at the end it’s easier than it seems.
Just smile and ask.
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The Stradun (also called Placa) is the main street of Dubrovnik, long some 300 metres is one of the most frequented part of the Grad.
It connects the two entrances to the town: the Pile and Ploče Gates. Continue Reading
Sunset from Mount Srd
After a quick look to the map, today I decided to go to Fort Impérial, at the top of Mount Srd.
Having forgotten the map at home, I had to rely purely on my instincts. That meant a very long walk; but a the end I managed to get to the beginning of the path that would lead me to the top of the mountain. Continue Reading
Island of Lokrum
This afternoon I decided to pay a visit to the Museum of Modern Art in Dubrovnik for Steve McCurry’s exhibition; many people might not know him by his name, but one of his pictures, named ‘Afghani girl’, appeared on National Geographic, gave him a fame that surely precedes him (google it, it is worth it).
The exhibition is incredible, probably one of the best I have been so far, concerning photography. His technique is impressive; he can really transmit strong feelings with his photos, which mostly involve portraits of people from distant countries. Continue Reading
Right next to the Pile Gate (Vrata od Pila), the Western entrance to the Old Town of Dubrovnik, is possible to spot the Fort Bokar.
This very beautiful fortress used as key point for the defense of the city, built from 1461 to 1463 during the reconstruction of the city walls, “stands in front of the medieval wall face protruding into space almost with its whole cylindrical volume.” (source)
The sea and the sky, creating a strong contrast of colours, enhance its beauty and somehow smooth its rough look.
The Old Town with its Stradun, its shops, churches, museums and restaurants is surely enjoyable, but I believe the tiny stairways are the true beauty of this part of the city, which are actually some sort of street.
These streets are very long and steep and they surely are breathtaking, both literally and not.
Did I mention they are really long? Mmmh, perhaps I did… Maybe I am just complaining because to get to my apartment it takes a lot of steps. Continue Reading
Yesterday, here in Dubrovnik, started the Dubrovnik Summer Festival: “a world famous annual event held in Dubrovnik. A rich program consisting of classical music, theatre performances and dance is performed at more than 70 open-air venues from 10th of July until 25th of August.” (source)
Due to the very high amount of people I didn’t manage to see most of the initial ceremony, started at 21.00, in square Pred lužom. Continue Reading
As promised here is an update with, finally, some pictures.
With today I would like to start posting pictures everyday; I know it could be a hard job, but who said it would be easy?
In each post I will also add a description, just to give the picture a clearer context. It is supposed to be some sort of photo-documentary of the places I go.
The posts will be shorter, but more frequent; hopefully my Internet connection will allow me to do so.
I start this project with my visit to the Ploče Gate (Vrata od Ploča), the Eastern entrance to the Old Town (Grad). It is very close to where I live and it is one of the two main entrances to the Grad.
In the past, the draw bridge was used to be pulled up at night to prevent the passage of ‘uninvited’ visitors. Continue Reading
Hello everyone,
as the title says, I’m in Dubrovnik. If you are wondering where it is, it is located in the deep south of Croatia; and if you are wondering where Croatia is, then I have bad news for you.
I arrived yesterday, after a very long trip by bus (approx. 15 hours), which passed through several cities (I will soon update this post with their names; UPDATE: The bus departed from Trieste and went through Rijeka, Zadar, Šibenik, Split, Makarska, Ploče and then Dubrovnik).
Dubrovnik is truly amazing and I’ve already found several good places for taking pictures. I’m also lucky I’ve found a very nice apartment right in the main area of the town, the Old Town. A very suggestive and busy place.
Right now I’m looking at an extremely blue sea, with a cloudless sky and light breeze. Kids` laughters, a mix of languages, the waves and my iPod creates a very improbable yet nice soundtrack for this moment.
Due to connectivity issues, I am not able to upload pictures as per now, but I’ll try my best tomorrow.
UPDATE2: even today I won’t be able to upload any picture, but today or tomorrow I will cut out some time to take some other pictures and post them here!
Bye for now.
I’ll update you as soon as possible.
Nesh
Hello everyone!
Last month I had the chance to visit Copenhagen (Denmark), a city I liked, even though I kind of expected something more from it; it could have just been the bad weather, I don’t know.
Streets of Copenhagen
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