Here are another bunch of pictures I took when I climbed Mount Srđ (I actually took the cable-car, but there is a big zig-zag path to the top for those so inclined…).
There’s also another shot of the daredevil woman who climbed the fence at the cable-car station and then sat on the rocks to take in the view.
If you’d like to experience the cable-car descent, I made a video:
Canon Sure Shot Z135 & Kodak Gold. Lab developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro.
A couple more Mount Srđ pictures today, the first of someone who looks perilously close to the edge (actually a drop of just a few feet…) and then a couple of pictures of the white stone cross that was rebuilt after being destroyed during the war in the 1990s.
In other, non-photography news, I’ve had a busy few days. My eldest son got married at the weekend, which was a lovely event and made me very happy and proud, and then today my wife and I drove him and his wife (it feels a bit odd calling her that somehow!) to the airport where they flew off on their honeymoon (to New York and Las Vegas).
While I didn’t have a lot to do in terms of any of the wedding planning, I did have to step in to do the Best Man’s speech after my son’s friend got a teaching job in Singapore and so couldn’t be there on the day. I’ve never given a Best Man’s speech before, so I was a little nervous about that, but it seemed to go well and I got a few compliments, which was nice.
It feels a little strange now that the wedding is over.
Olympus Trip 35 & Colorplus. Lab developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro.
Mount Srđ (pronounced serj) stands above Dubrovnik old town and is 1,352 feet tall. A cable-car takes visitors to the top and back, where there stands a cable car station with a restaurant with panoramic views over Dubrovnik and the coast. A Napoleonic fort, Fort Imperial, also resides at the top, which is now a museum to the events of the Croatian War of Independence in the 1990s. In addition, there is a tall television transmission mast.
The mountain played a key role in the Siege of Dubrovnik during the conflict between the Croatian forces and the Yugoslav People’s Army, with the Croatian’s literally holding the fort.
Olympus Trip 35 & Colorplus. Lab developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro.
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