This day began with lunch at Nishta (a delightful vegetarian place that stands out among the rest of the cloned seafood restaurants in the old town), and ended with pizza at Pizzeria Tabasco (a pizza place outside of the city walls that was also refreshingly not overtaken by tourists).

Note the necessity of wine.

We went back to the old town today, despite the heat and the crowds, to catch the small speedboat to Cavtat. As Cavtat is south of Dubrovnik, we took the boat from that harbor, and not from the nearby Gruz harbor to the north.

View of Dubrovnik’s old town city walls as we took off in our speedboat

We pulled into the bay of Cavtat, a fisherman village on the slopes of the Rat peninsula, we fell in love with its charm.

Not really having any direction, we followed the walking path around the peninsula.

Tucked away under the trees was this shack of a bar, piping a rendition of “Royals”. We had found our spot (not to mention the blue-eyed bartender who could have charged us anything for a drink and we would have paid it).

Beers in hand, we walked down to the little wading pool and hung out with some more locals on the rocks.

There were some lounge chairs, so we decided to park it for a while. It was odd that everyone else was lying on the rocks.

When I saw the bartender approaching, I knew my intuition was right that he wanted to get to know us better.

“Excuse me, you have to pay to sit in these chairs.”