Dubrovnik Shopping

The offer is pretty unique among cheep chinese souvenirs products that are offered in many souvenirs shopes in the Old town..

What to buy: Shop offers local products ( rose liqour, carob brandy...), crafts( handmade and hand painted ceramics with motives of Dubrovnik nature as olives, lavander, figgs..), unique souvenirs ( replicas of croatian historical crosses...), natural cosmetic products ( salt baths, soaps...), croatian truffels, extra virgin olive oil, local bitter orange jam, nice T-shirts, lavander dolls, nice small paintings of Old town etc.

What to pay: Prices are popular and acceptable to majority of tourists.

One of the unique and best tastes of Croatia is Bajadera. That is the local quality chocolate, it is one of my favourite chocolates, unfortunately I can only get it in Croatia and so in my last visit I bought lots of it to take back home with me.

For whom ever that arrived here with their mountain gear or pyjama’s there are plenty of quality and high fashion stores in the old town, I just hope you brought with you the unlimited credit card to pay for such stuff.

Obviously for such popular tourist destination there are hundreds of tourist shops where you can buy souvenirs, handcrafts, guide books in many languages and so on.
This shop is Dubravka which is just next to the same name popular restaurant in the Brsalje Square opposite of the tourist information.

What to buy: I don't buy such stuff.

We all know about Sljivovica, but this product was a bit new to me, it is the local Raki drink and they call it here Komovica. This is very old traditional drink for the Balkan region. This particular made of grapes.
You can buy in supermarket, food stores and of course at the airport. This one is of the Badel distillery brand which is one of the biggest in Croatia and if you want to be sure of a bit better quality product you can select this Badel Komovica.

What to buy: Komovica

As usual when travelling and shopping I try to taste and buy the local spirit of the place and in Croatia it is of course Sljivovica and in this case the famouse Badel Sljivovica. Easy place to buy it is at the airport just before you board your flight home.

What to buy: Sljivovica

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I quickly discovered that the old town on Dubrovnik has not shortage of amazing designer boutiques and, as I hadn't set out to designate this a "shopping holiday", I was keeping my eyes averted from the goodies winking at me from every second elegantly dressed window.

Therefore, Missori took me by surprise. It lurks unobtrusively on a corner and so has window frontage on two streets. This makes it harder to resist.

I "just" wandered in to check out the goods, no intention of buying, and came away with a divine black leather Roberto Cavalli Bag studded with brass. The shop was happy to give a 10% discount for cash and I was more than delighted with my purchase.

This shop also stocks some fabulous designer shoes so be prepared.

What to pay: It's designer, so prepare for matching prices.

We visited a mall and grocery stores and people and workers were all smoking in the stores/mall. This was such a strange experience because in Minnesota smoking is not even allowed in bars/restaurants - let alone stores!