Quote Originally Posted by Interceptor

Split and Dubrovnik are pretty much the most popular tourist destinations for european tourists .

I sent my husband the link and told him "hey, lets go to croatia". And being the master of obscure facts that he is, he told me that we Americans owe Dubrovnik. Back in the 1700s, it was a city kingdom and we were 13 colonies telling our mother country to stick it.

Dubrovnik was the first country to recognize us a country and did so even before we won the war.

We have a saying that "the first olive is the hardest to get out of the jar", meaning that the first of anything is it the hardest and after that all the rest are easy to get. So we owe you for being the first to be willing to stand with us. Others said if those people of america are good enough for Dubrovnik, I guess they deserve to be a country.