Thank you all so much for the wonderful birthday wishes.  We had a fantastic weekend in Dubrovnik.  It is a small gem-of-a-city.  You can walk the length of it in 15 minutes, from gate to harbour.  Then you can spend hours wandering up and down ( and I mean UP and down) the side streets knowing it is all equally beautiful and you’ll never get lost.  The memories of the 1990/91 war are everywhere.  Everyone continues to be haunted by it, and so the residents all take justifiable pride in how they have rebuilt their city, their economy and their lives.  It’s a wonderful place, as the photos (taken by Mr D on his trusty blackberry) clearly show.  Plus, the food’s great!

We stopped in this fishing village for lunch on Saturday, during our private all-day tour.  Oh, didn’t I mention that we spent a day sailing around the Adriatic, or rather being sailed for?  On this boat:

It was absolutely glorious.  See how happy I was?  And why wouldn’t I be happy — the sun was shining, I was on the water, Mr D was by my side, as were the dolphins:

Oh, and I also had this lovely, young, long-haired Croatian skipper as our guide.  If I had only been able to get the bloody “Gilligan’s Island” theme song out of my head.