Blogs from Brac, Dalmatia, Croatia, Europe

Today we began the ‘cream-on-the-cake’ of our holiday. Made our way to Supetar central arriving very sweaty for breakfast. When purchased we sat by the sea, ate and watched the small runabouts head out of the safety and calmness of the beautiful little harbour to do their business. We met up with Mel, Peter and Alesija and boarded the ferry to Supetar. To Mel’s unit we went, winding our way through the many locals,tourists and lanes, again arriving even more soaked in sweat than the earlier walk. Yes, the heat came quickly. Into an uber to Kastella Marina enjoying an informative chat and a few laughs with the young driver. Peter and Mel ran around completing the boating formalities. Gradually all members met up on the “Ocean House” our aptly named yacht. Peter completed the thorough ... read more

The wind conveniently veered to the SW for a fast broad reach from Vrboska on Hvar to Brac. We are moored on a buoy owned by the Pipo restaurant where we ate lamb farmed by the owner. Sandy decided here daily exercise would present more of a challenge when performed on a SUP board. I watched in amazement.... read more

Even though we are in a bit of a rush to pick up our Spainish visas in Toronto Canada, we had already booked a wonderful AirBNB on the island of Brac Croatia and had decided to stick to that plan. We had been through Croatia last year and loved it, stayed in Makarska in January and thought it would be wonderful to see it in full swing in the summer, our plan was to stay there but also wanted to see the islands. But we did get a bonus day in Makarska we weren't really planning on, but the ferrys in the summer are jammed, so we had a 6 hr wait. We had seen booths when we were there before and wondered would it would all be like in the summer.... read more

Hi everybody, LAst night we went to my FIRST ever Professional Soccer game. The Team from Split is called Hajduk and they played Dinamo from Zagreb. This is the Biggest game for the whole Country. It's the Biggest city ( Zagreb ) playing the second biggest city ( Split ).. Let me tell you I have Never experienced anything like that before in my whole life. The Fans are the craziest thing I have EVER seen. They are SOOOOOO PAssionate about their team. When the other team started to get close to scoring, They would light flares and that would cause Smoke to cover the whole field so it would confuse the other other team. You couldn't see ANYTHING.... The other thing I found ironic about it is, The teams Nickname is the " White Boys ... read more

The weather improved as we finally made our way to eat at Triton in a protected cove on Lastovo. We practiced the Hat-overboard drill and as you can see both the hat and the band from Ecuador survived the drill. On the history front we visited the Vela Spila archeological site, a cave 20 minutes walk above Vela Luka on Korcula. The cave has been continuously inhabited since 15,000 BC and was in need of a fresh coat of paint! Excavated objects, including the skeletons from four graves from the Stone Age, the oldest burial grounds found in Croatia, are exhibited in a small museum in Vela Luka. The hillsides on many of the islands are terraced with many ancient walls and are now home to olive groves. The wind has been gaining strength, fortunately from ... read more