Enjoy: From Kay and Lloyd Mackall Dubrovnik Croatia--Pearl of Adriatic, Carnival Cruisers Agree 6th YouTube cruise video live at youtu.be/9tsetBLGaiA Our tour guide was a Freedom Fighter...See his photo and information in the video and check out the second paragraph below. Dubrovnik is nicknamed Pearl of the Adriatic and tourism is the most important industry. It is an old city on the Adriatic Sea coast in the extreme south of Croatia, according to Wikipedia. It is one of the most prominent tourist resorts of the Mediterranean, a seaport and the center of the Dubrovnik-Neretva County. Its population was 42,615 inhabitants. Our guide in this Carnival Sunshine arranged bus tour was a Freedom Fighter in the 1991 siege of this Croatian coastal city of Dubrovnik, which lasted nine months and had devastating consequences for the city and the entire region, at the time re-focused the world’s attention on the war in the former Yugoslavia. The events surrounding the earlier destruction of Vukovar by the Yugoslav People’s Army (JNA) and various Serbian paramilitary groups, coupled with the long-lasting and seemingly absurd attack on Dubrovnik, helped redefine the perception of the conflict in the former Yugoslavia. In the Middle Ages it became the only city-state in the Adriatic to rival Venice. Supported by its wealth and skilled diplomacy, the city achieved a remarkable level of development during the 15th and 16th centuries. Dubrovnik was one of the centers of the development of the Croatian language and literature, home to many poets, playwrights, painters, mathematicians, physicists and other scholars. Dubrovnik managed to survive many centuries, with constant threats to its territory, particularly from the mighty Ottoman Empire and Venice. As early as 19th century, it was discovered by celebrities as a place to be seen. George Bernard Shaw once said that those who seek paradise on Earth should come to Dubrovnik and find it. Six passengers, Dee and Bill Storm, Kay and Lloyd Mackall and Sandra and Don Walker, left the Myrtle Beach Airport Sept. 5, 2013, bound for a 12-day Mediterranean cruise, which began in Venice, Italy, ending in Barcelonia, Spain, Sept. 20. Ports of call also included Dubrovnik, Croatia; Izmier, Turkey; Messina in Sicily, along with Naples, Rome and Florence, Italy, and Marseille, France. Photos and video of this Carnival Sunshine Mediterranean Cruse were taken with the new Nikon D600 24.3 MP CMOS FX-Format Digital SLR Camera with 24-85mm f/3.5-4.5G ED VR AF-S Nikkor Lens and edited on 13-inch MacBook Pro using Apples Aperture and iMovie. Pearl of the Adriatic Dubrovnik is nicknamed Pearl of the Adriatic and tourism is the most important industry. It is an old city on the Adriatic Sea coast in the extreme south of Croatia, according to Wikipedia. It is one of the most prominent tourist resorts of the Mediterranean, a seaport and the center of the Dubrovnik-Neretva County. Its population was 42,615 inhabitants. Our tour guide was a Freedom Fighter Our guide in this Carnival Sunshine arranged bus tour was a Freedom Fighter in the 1991 siege of this Croatian coastal city of Dubrovnik, which lasted nine months and had devastating consequences for the city and the entire region, at the time re-focused the world’s attention on the war in the former Yugoslavia. This 1991 siege and events surrounding the earlier destruction of Vukovar by the Yugoslav People’s Army (JNA) and various Serbian paramilitary groups, coupled with the long-lasting and seemingly absurd attack on Dubrovnik, helped redefine the perception of the conflict in the former Yugoslavia.
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