Wednesday, October 25, 2023

22 October 2023 Dubrovnik: The Weather has Cleared Out and so Has Laura

 


We woke up to clean air and sunshine.  The hard rain from the day previous had really cleared out everything.  Alas, it was also Laura's last day with us and we  had to load her up at 10:30.  She made it all the way back without any issues.  We made it into the old town and visited the Ethnographic Museum.  It was a fascinating look at old Dubrovnik and the lives the folks lived back then.  


Waiting for the driver


Loaded up


We will miss your jokes and your ever ready smile


The wind has died down enough for the cable cars to finally run


The run right over our place


Time to inspect the well


No witches, yea!


The inside is very old timey and no picture is at the same level as any other picture of placed symmetrically within the room


Back to breach the walls


Looking back at our lovely place


Some sort of food fest


Bars on the windows to keep the pious inside on festival days


More bell ringing


A cross walk over the srtreet


We stopped in this home made food store


Great motto


The museum is here


From the steps of the museum


Huge brick arches inside


Old time pictures


Our house is right over there


Chicken foot stick


Hand driven stone grinding wheel


Another small scale appliance, a wine press


A shepherd's coat made of goat hair with a wool liner


More of the three pronged utensils


Some graffiti of old


Finally multi pronged fish stickers


Very fancy guns


The inlay was of the highest quality


Inside this stump was a beehive


Not crayon drawings


Still pretty cool


A great  layout for the artifacts



Vests


Three stringed lyres and flutes


One thick studded belt


A very old bone flute


Pistol packing


The knives come out!


Gold gold gold


There was a egg dying history.  They used onion peels and beeswax to make them


Hats


More hats


Even more hats


This hat seems to have the winning ribbon attached


Perhaps the most exotic hat of them all


Today's hats leave a bit to be desired


Someone from Tennessee must live here


We headed up these stairs


Leslie headed up first


A very elaborate opening


Takes us to the finest staircase



It has been 1 year and 138 days since we began our Migration