A Digital Nomad’s Guide to Dubrovnik, Croatia

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Dubrovnik - A Digital Nomads Guide

As Croatia’s most popular city,

Dubrovnik is filled with tourists and overpriced food. That’s not to say you can’t enjoy it, just be sure to wake up early to do your exploring. One of my favorite things, and painful things, is to wake up at sunrise to explore my new quarters. You’ll be able to see the city all to yourself with empty streets. You get a glimpse of what it was like living there thousands of years ago. Plus, if you’re a content creator, you’ll also get the best photos.

If you’re coming to stay for well over a week and work,

I suggest finding lodging outside of the Old Town and taking trips into the Old Town instead. There are far too many souvenir shops over supermarkets, wifi cafes, pharmacies, and other day-to-day living essentials. Wherever you choose to stay, you can still find a quiet place to work. For instance, the Hilton Imperial Dubrovnik that has beautiful air conditioned lobbies, high speed internet, and great coffee.  

Tip: In most countries you will always be able to find a chain hotel that has open lobby space, a cafe, and fast internet for you to use. Just be sure to order something and add a tip.

Visiting Dubrovnik Croatia
Dubrovnik - Exploring the Old City
Dubrovnik - Old City Tour
Dubrovnik - Touring the City
Dubrovnik - Bell Tower
Dubrovnik - Bucket List Locations

The main attraction of Dubrovnik is the ancient city walls. 

It’s full of intricate forts, bastions, casemates towers and beautiful ocean views. Start by climbing the stairs above the Pile Gate, pass the Bokar Fortress and St John’s Fortress, continue to the Ploce Gate and climb until you reach the Minceta Fortress, the highest point of the walls. On this 2km / 1.2 mile loop be sure to take in 360° magnificent views of the Old Town, the island of Lokrum, and the Adriatic Sea. 

Dubrovnik - City Walls
Dubrovnik - View from the city walls
Dubrovnik - Views of the Adriatic Sea
Dubrovnik - Landscape views

I felt like I had gone back in time to the medieval ages with all the baroque architecture, red roofs, fortresses and cliffs. There are three entrances to walk the wall, whichever one you choose just be either the first ones to arrive to avoid crowds and catch the sun early (around 8-830am), or wait until the late afternoon (around 5pm) after the cruise ships have left and watch the city turn gold as the sun sets. 

This UNESCO World Heritage Site is definitely a must do when you’re visiting the city of Dubrovnik. And if you’re a Game of Thrones fan, you’ll recognize very similar scenes from the show. Make a scavenger hunt and spend a day running around to recreate each scene, I promise you’ll laugh your head off in the making.

Tip: The three location points are Pile Gate, Ploce Gate, and St John (Sv Ivan) fort. 

Dubrovnik - UNESCO Site

Treat yourself to breakfast with a view. 

After you spend your morning climbing the ancient city wall, treat yourself to a feast.

Grandska Kavana Arsenal is located right on the pier. A perfect spot to watch the boats pass by, people watch, and snap a photo with Croatia’s iconic scenery. 

It offers three different breakfast platters, one being completely vegetarian. Each platter comes with a hot drink of your choice (coffee or tea), orange juice, and a variation of croissant, toast, egg cooked any way, omelet, bacon, sausage, roasted tomatoes, fruit salad and more. 

Dubrovnik - Brunch with a view
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It’s open everyday from 8:30am-11:30am and platter runs from 68kn – 82kn ($10.32 USD – 12.44 USD) The staff was over the top friendly. Not only did they suggest our photo be taken, but went to lengths to get the perfect shot for us. Thanks again!

Get lost in the Old Town

The town is bowl-shaped so it’s like walking on the outside of a layered cake. Each layer has rows of restaurants and shops at every turn, and long winding staircases running up every block. The harbor is the first tier, sunset views on the top tier— with a city stuck right in-between! 

Dubrovnik - City Steps

There are 4,343 steps in the Old Town and the city wall has 1,080 alone. You can imagine the amount of walking you’ll do so be sure to pack good shoes. Take your time wandering through the city. It’s full of picturesque staircases that are laced with flower pots, window shutters, lanterns and clothes lines. 

Catch the sunset at Buza Bar

This was one of the highlights of my stay,

and came as quite a pleasant surprise. While wandering the back streets of the Old Town, there’s a yellow sign that sits above a woman selling trinkets that read cold drinks with the most beautiful view–– who could resist?! 

Follow the sign down to a narrow doorway on the side of a cliff to have a cocktail and catch the sunset. Be sure to arrive early as seats will fill up, and patrons will stay for hours as it truly is the best seat in the house. It was absolutely beautiful and a definite must do while you’re in Dubrovnik! 

Tip: Buza Bar has two locations, Buza and Buza II. Both can be entered from the Old Town and both offer amazing views. The drinks are overpriced and limited, but they are well worth it for the best view in town!


Lodging for every type of traveler:

Meet other travelers and book a hostel:

  1. Hostel Angelina 
  2. Petra Marina 
  3. City Walls Hostel

Live like a local through airbnb

  1. Luxury Apartment In Dubrovnik Center!
  2. Suite with a Pool
  3. Two Bedroom with Sea View

Splurge for luxury living with a hotel:

  1. Hotel Kompas Dubrovnik
  2. Sheraton Dubrovnik Riviera Hotel
  3. Hilton Imperial Dubrovnik

Co-working spaces in Dubrovnik:

As Dubrovnik is a touristic hotspot there are no co-working places in the city. That’s not to say it’s not workable, you’ll just want to ensure good wifi at your airbnb, hostel, or hotel.

The best way to achieve this is upon booking lodging let your host know you are traveling for work. Airbnb has a setting specifically for this. Before confirming your reservation ask your host to run a speed test from speedtest.net, take a screen shot and send it back.

Be sure to check out the Digital Nomad’s Guide to Croatia!

Dubrovnik - A Digital Nomads Guide

A Digital Nomad’s Guide to Dubrovnik, Croatia

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Helen is an intuitive business coach and solo wanderer. She’s created a lifestyle of freedom where you chase your dreams and build a business and travel the world.

It's through this journey of work and travel where her larger mission unfolded, her intuition deepened and found herself synchronistically traveling to predestined locations.

She blazes a new trail of how you can live and create your own version of Heavenly Earth while on the road to finding your destiny through the love of locational astrology. 

With her combined business expertise, love for systems, nomad experience and intuition– she’s cracked the code to creating stability in the nomad lifestyle allowing us to fly free with a peace of mind.

KJ Atlas is a poetic whisperer of energy and the ether. Astrology is the language of nature and KJ has made it her mission to decode its complexities into something useful, meaningful, and practical.

She approaches astrology strategically with a background in science, psychology, and health, and has an insatiable curiosity for the human mind.

A seasoned nomad and travel enthusiast, she’s an expert in locational astrology and will help you find the best places for you to live and visit based on your unique energy and timing. She also specializes in business birth chart readings and CEO astrology coaching. Having synesthesia, she not only reads your chart, but “feels” your chart and energy in colors she then turns into custom art.

She is a graduate of Portland School of Astrology and has trained under Jan Spiller’s lineage.

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Helen       Simkins

She blazes a new trail of how you can live and create your own version of Heavenly Earth while on the road to finding your destiny through the love of locational astrology.

With her combined business expertise, love for systems, nomad experience and intuition– she’s cracked the code to creating stability in the nomad lifestyle allowing us to fly free with a peace of mind.

Helen is an intuitive business coach and solo wanderer. Over the last five years she’s created a lifestyle of freedom where you chase your dreams and build a business and travel the world.

It's through this journey of work and travel where her larger mission unfolded, her intuition deepened and found herself synchronistically traveling to predestined locations.

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