Location, Location, Location

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The three L’s are the watchword for purchasing property but what about selecting a cinema? Those who follow all my digital output closely might have seen me talk recently about living six months in a city with no cinema. In the last week we were staying in Dubrovnik - one of Croatia’s leading coastal destinations. It’s a city steeped in history and, rain or shine, it never fails to be beautiful. The Old Town houses numerous museums and art galleries. However, these we overlooked upon the discovery of the cinema nestled as the end of the Stradun. Sure it wasn’t the size of those in London’s Leicester Square, perhaps it doesn’t impress like a night on Hollywood Boulevard – and, yes, the seats were hard, the screen small and the sound a little dodgy – but how many times can you say you’ve been to the cinema and walked out to be greeted by a view like this? We have – twice!

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Dorset Dispatches said…
The cinema! How much do I miss the cinema. None in Tuzla either. When we are back in the UK that is the FIRST thing I am going to do. Sarajevo has one. Cannot understand why more Bosnian cities don't have one. It is not as if there are loads of other forms of entertainment here!
31 March 2009 at 03:25
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