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Sky Dining. Dine among the clouds in Dubrovnik. Cloud dining is now Dubrovnik’s favorite reason to look up. A crane restaurant in Dubrovnik offers a view as unforgettable as the cuisine. Dine on a platform that moves your soul as much as your appetite in Dubrovnik. Dining in the sky redefines special occasions for food lovers in Dubrovnik.

After leaving Dubrovnik, driving along the highway, we discover, on both sides of the highway, commercial oyster beds and stop to inspect.

This area is renowned for producing Ostrea edulis , European flat oyster, cultivated using ropes that hang from floating barrels or structures in the water,

Oyster farming has a deep history in the region, with documented cultivation since the 16th century.

The industry has been renewed by family farms organized into associations and cooperatives, contributing to a significant portion of Croatia's shellfish output.

Commercial oyster farming in Croatia is a centuries-old practice, most prominently established in the brackish waters of Mali Ston Bay

A mix of sea and river water creates the ideal brackish conditions, fostering the growth of sea plants that serve as food for the oysters.

Many of our fellow travelers wanted to purchase some oysters to try them. No one left disappointed.

We journey overland to the village of Karanac, population 1,000, in the northeast corner of Croatia near the Danube and Drava Rivers. to spend the night at a farmstead.

We are greeted by our hosts, husband, Denis, wife Goca, and son, Stipen. What a nice relaxing break in our trip to stay in this agricultural region. We all have individual rooms facing into walk areas surrounded with crops, fruit trees and pleasant breezes.

Once settled we meet in the dining room to learn how to make cheese where we all take turns making two different cheeses. We learn from a professional who makes cheese for a living.

Our ingredients to work with.

It was fun and interesting.

In the evening we walked a few hundred feet down the street to a home hosted dinner with a local family. Both the husband and the wife are in law enforcement. He pilots a police boat on the Danube not far away for the police and she is a police person also. Here is the outside of the home they have restored.

They bought an old home abandoned during the war of Serbs and Croatia. They have totally remodeled it and prepared a wonderful dinner for all of us. A very enjoyable evening for all of us.

They have a huge garden behind the home with lots of acreage. Here he is showing us some of the fruits they have preserved.

The dinner was excellent. Much of the meal was from their garden. The wife is at the head of the table. They have two young daughters.

Dragan is showing us an award he recently received in a competition for winning the best tasting sausages. They were really good.,

Early the next morning when the sun came up so did we get up and checking everything out at our farm hosted location.

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