I can’t take her anywhere, or how our Game of Thrones tour (£42) turned into the Mother of Dragons’ shame in Dubrovnik.
King’s Landing as all Thronies know is where Cersei walked naked through the streets as the people shouted ‘Shame’ at her.
For sleeping with Jamie her brother.
I have introduced my own Mother of Dragons thus to our guide Edi, a thirty-something Croatian guide.
Guide to GoT
The GetYourGuide Game of Thrones tour (€40) boasts some 14 locations and Edi takes us around them all.
From the moment you enter through the Pile Gate which Edi helpfully translates as Gate Gate…
You are transported through time and CGI to Martin’s world.
Ready, Edi, Go
Edi helpfully reveals that the-then Dubrovnik mayor granted HBO free rites to his city.
And that the locals initially thought him mad to give it away.
Only it has paid back in spades through tourism.
The townspeople cashed in then too when the producers offered them €100 each to remove their boats from the harbour while they shot scenes.
The Lovrijenac Fort (€15) itself is steeped in history before you even get to GoT once boasting Europe’s largest cannon.
It was here too that Cersei and Littlefinger fell out.
Stairway to Hell
The Spanish, or Jesuit Stairs, are the best-known locale, even recognised by those who have never seen the show.
Edi tells us that, yes, it is based on Rome’s Spanish Steps.
So they set a fine of €150 for those who took off their top or bras.
And so as Edi took the stragglers off to a makeshift Iron Throne.
The authentic ones are in the North of Ireland and Lokrum, in eye’s view of Dubrovnik.
And it is to Lokrum that we head next on our pearl anniversary odyssey of Croatia and Montenegro.
With loveholidays and EasyJet, staying at the Grand Park Hotel in the peninsula.
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