A fine evening with the Dubrovnik Symphony Orchestra & a chilled weekend

The weeks seem to be flying by, but I am pleased to say that it’s been a week filled with highs! I did some tests earlier in the week that came back clean, which is great. The weather has been beautiful during the day, making the early morning walk around the peninsular, use of the outdoor gym and swim even more appealing, although the sea is cooling off a little…The nights are definitely getting a little chilly though.

The last time that we were in Dubrovnik we noted the Dubrovnik Symphony Orchestra were playing their autumn finale in a Franciscan monastery on the 29th October, so I went online and grabbed a pair of tickets. Friday we took the #10 “bendy bus” into Dubrovnik for an early dinner at “Nishta”, a highly rated organic restaurant, that we’d been wanting to try and it was very good indeed. We then made our way down one of the impressive stone staircases towards to the placa stradum and the Rectors Palace, the venue for the evenings spectacle (I received an earlier email, notifying me of the venue change). We arrived at the Rectors Palace, which is yet another one of those jaw dropping buildings hidden within the old city walls. It’s a stunning 13th century building, that’s a mix of renaissance, gothic & more recently a baroque centerpiece staircase running through the open aired atrium, up to the mezzanine level, which was added in the 15 century. The usher, who handed me the tickets explained that they’d not updated the website, to reflect the new locale and by way of an apology they’d given us the best seats in the house, smack bang in the middle of the gallery, between a pair of intricately carved columns. We were then treated to an hour and a half of absorbing live music, performed underneath the night sky . Wow! Another incredible evening. The rest of the weekend we spent lounging around in a spot that we’ve taken to, with Saturday lunch at the “Bugenvila” restaurant before it closes next week.