The bus ride from Dubrovnik to Ston took about an hour. When the various restoration projects in Ston are completed, this beautiful medieval town will be even more popular. A friend strongly recommended the famous oysters of Ston. I had a dozen for lunch; they were served four different ways. I liked the raw ones the most.
No one was working onsite to fix the mote. Was today’s work remote or re-mote?
Ston Oysters four ways at Sorgo Palace Restaurant; raw, grilled with olive oil, fried, and wrapped in prosciutto. The raw ones are the best.
The town was quiet and it’s been raining on and off. The beautiful cats were starving. It started to really pour shortly after we left the restaurant so we had coffee and tea at a cafe while waiting out the rain. By the time the rain stopped, we had missed the last admission cutoff for going onto the medieval stone wall.
Birdies waiting out the rain in pairs. ♥️♥️ ♥️♥️
Rain again.
The walled city of Ston is connected to her little sister, Mali Ston, by a stretch of stone wall that goes over the hill. That makes the Walls of Ston the longest stone wall in Europe, stretching 5.5 km (3.4 miles). It would have been nice to walk along the 14th-century wall to Mali Ston, but tourist attractions close as early as 3:00 pm during off season.
It would have been nice to walk on the longest wall in Europe over the hill to go to Mali Ston.
There would be a lot more people here in the summer
Instead, we walked on the bicycle/pedestrian path to Mali Ston. It took less than 30 minutes because I stopped only once to feed cats; a poor Mommy and her two kittens digging through dumpsters for food. The path leads us through a cemetery then into the village.
Mali Ston was even quieter but as equally rustic as her big sister. We saw only two full-service restaurants still open for business. The waterfront hotels, restaurants and souvenir shops will hustle and bustle again in summer, or even by spring. We saw sea urchins, sea pans, sea cucumbers, fish, mussels and oysters in the water.
Poor Mama. She’s so young herself but she had to go dumpster diving for food for her kitties too.
Church of St. Blaise.
It was so quiet and tranquil.
The gulf of Mali Ston is where the famous oysters come from. Of course, I had to visit the oyster tasting establishment and have more. None for Kenric because he’s allergic to them. More for me, nine more to be exact. Mali Stoners know what they’re doing because they’ve been farming oysters here since the Roman times.
Altogether, we fed 20+ cats in Ston and Mali Ston. As a reward, the fur ball sitting on my lap at the oyster place even looked at the camera when Kenric snapped his photo.
Cats almost never look at the camera, so I was really glad that Kitty looked straight at the camera when I asked Kenric to take a picture of his huge paw.
Kenric’s Tagliatelle with Mussels at Sorgo Palace Restaurant. It was great.
Map of Places Visited
Sorgo Palace Restaurant
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