7/18 Thursday
We grab a bus to the city again,
where our first stop is the Marin
Držić House, an
impossible to pronounce Renaissance writer considered the “Shakespeare of
Croatia.” His former home is a small museum. It contains some costumes and
posters from recent productions of his plays, and a long, plaster-walled room
decorated with plaques of award-winning writers, leading to a mounted tv screen
and six folding chairs. The video is a 60 Minutes style show led by a reporter
literally wearing a trenchcoat, talking into a microphone as he stands in front
of irrelevant locations. If they tweaked it a bit, they could actually make it
more boring. And yet, even though there’s no English translation, we sit and
watch it for half an hour.
Next,
we give the Natural History Museum a try. It’s a private collection of one
Antun Drobac, donated to the city, and
also set in the donor’s former home. It’s a fun walk through the four floors,
with lots of child-friendly exhibits. We’re always in the mood for a nice
hippopotamus skull.
A
short walk through the stone lanes gets us to the Ethnographic, or Cultural
Museum. This is housed in a huge building that was used for storing the city’s
supply of grain. There are exhibits of daily life, traditional clothing, scenes
of work and home. We had just enough time to walk through before it closed for
the day.
Now
we’re ready for a swim. Just outside of the fortress walls is Banje beach,
popular with the tourists for its location. It’s run by an adjacent nightclub, the chairs and umbrellas are pricey, and we only have a couple of hours. Instead, we do as the locals do and
find a shady spot along the rocks for our towels. Swimming is fine, with a
great view of the city walls and the sailboats coming into the harbor.
1 Video Included
Dubrovnik Swim
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