Croatia
Started the day with a Game of Thrones tour of old town. Unfortunately the Red Keep (Lovrjenac fortress) was closed for a private event, and the rest of the tour, while pretty informative and with plenty of kinda cool trivia for non-fans such as myself, didn't actually go into any buildings or get you any special access, which was a bit disappointing.
Dubrovnik Cable Car up to Mt. Srd was a solid view despite the haze, and the museum in the old fortress at the top was quite enthusiastic about Croatian independnence. Given the war for Croatian independnece was barely 30 years ago, memories are still quite fresh, and considerable evidence lies everywhere. Modern Dubrovnik is also easily viewed from Mt. Srd, and put together the whole picture is that of a charming and very large medevial city.
Back down the cable car, then a short walk (and yet another admission ticket) to the old town's city walls. Despite being some of the longest medevial city walls at just under two kilometers, it's a relatively quick walk, although it's still worth doing if you've never been. The summer heat wasn't that bad up on the walls, especially the seaward side, and you got a solid glimpse of many little features butted against the walls, literally on top of the walls, or even outside of the walls on the rocks above the sea.
A brisk walk down one of the main streets, its stonework glowing in the late afternoon sun, then time to start the day's final activity, a food tour. Barely a block north of the eastern-most main street is where most of the food tour stops were, focusing on Croatia's unique varieties of wine, cured meats, seafood, pastas, and a specific type of pastry filled with cheese and spinach. Not quite sure what to make of it; the focus on carpaccios was a bit unusual and the wines were passable, but the characteristics that were unique to Croatia weren't enough to stand out particularly strongly. Even dessert, at a gelato place a few blocks closer to the ocean, wasn't terribly memorable.