Day 2 fantasy cat action Gatto's revenge -

Day 2 See-Saw Day Gatto’s revenge Wow, the apartment we call 19a is right in the center of old town and amazingly dark so we all got a great long first night sleep. Rallied though and made our selves go to the recommended coffee shop for crepes over vanilla ice cream and smothered in fresh fruit. Follow this with a latte and we are off to a great day. Of course how fast can you move after such a breakfast so we decided to stroll. Tourist ship has not belched 10,000 passengers yet so we sort of have the old town to ourselves as it wakes up. Unfortunately the sunny Mediterranean climate has not arrived yet and we do much of our walking in the rain. Back to get coats and purchase of the smallest umbrella in Croatia and we are off again. In one of our attempts to avoid the rain we decide we might be able to stay dry for an extended period of time if we combine food and wine at the same time. After several attempts to sit we finally get a table at what turns out to be a great Bosnian restaurant. Wine, some sort of sausage, salad, and baclava later and we have been revitalized. We are refreshed, we seem to have beaten jet lag and the sun is starting to come out. We had decided to put off the walk around the wall until our return from the kayak trip but feeling so good after lunch we decide to go for it. So up the hill we go to the top of the town to get the tough part of the wall out of the way first. Little did we know the expedition we were about to undertake.

There are lots of cats in Dubrovnik. If you are a cat lover like Sarah then you spend a lot of your time working on the purrfect, pardon the pun, photo to send back to the neighbors who are cat sitting for her. I got to the top of the stairs above 19a first and there was a lone cat sitting on the stonewall. Photo of cat with stairs and town below framing Kathie and Sarah climbing up the stairs seemed purrfect. There I go again, sorry, couldn’t resist. I guess the click of the camera shutter startled the feral cat because he leapt off the wall directly onto Kathie. The nurse at the small emergency clinic said I was probably not to blame but I still feel terrible. The superficial scratches and any concern about cat scratch fever and ring worm we actually have covered with our medical kit we have with us, diflucan, mupurricin (there I go again I just can’t seem to resist) and cipro. However all are much more concerned about the corneal laceration. Fortunately not a grade 3, whatever that means. I guess that is not completely thru but bad enough that they wanted us to go to the specialty ophthalmology hospital in Reuab about 50 kilometers down the coast. Recall I said the rain had washed out the road from the airport and sure enough that is the same road. So what should have been a 30 min cab ride became a 2 ½ hour thrill ride. Of course we did not prepare for that winding trip along the rouged coastline cow path/highway and Kathie’s codeine wore off long before we got there. Lucky thing. The only ophthalmologist in central Croatia happened to be at the clinic. Of course it is a national holiday and they are off at a convention or something.. No stiches. Believe it or not, just superglue, an eye patch, a big bottle of codeine, and she should be OK in a week or so. They don’t want her to do any snorkeling and she is supposed to avoid alcohol but they didn’t think going on the boat was contraindicated so we should be able to go on the catamaran tomorrow. Back in Dubrovnik in 30 minutes this time. Kathie’s eye and the road are fixed and the sun scheduled to come out tomorrow. Nice dinner of risotto and fresh sea bass with citrus and capers. Kathie can’t have the wine but according to Sarah her part of the bottle was excellent. All in all it was an up and down day. Look on the bright side, even if only with one eye. We found some very loud and obnoxious scraping toys for the grandkids at the market, we ate well and if the weather improves as they say it is supposed to we get to go on a sailboat trip tomorrow. Miss you all. Kathie says hi and she will see you in two weeks. Sorry couldn’t resist.