Stolac — Lavender on Limestone, Seven Thousand Years Deep

Stolac is a hillside seven thousand years deep — one of the oldest continuously inhabited places in the region. Two nights of lavender against warm limestone, above the Bregava river, in the shade of a 19th-century Ottoman courtyard.

Lavandula angustifolia grows into stone here as if it had always been part of it. The chapter is short and slow: the scent of lavender and old walls, and the sound of the Bregava underneath.