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Background: The lands that today comprise Croatia were part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire until the close of World War I. In 1918, the Croats, Serbs, and Slovenes formed a kingdom known after 1929 as Yugoslavia. Following World War II, Yugoslavia became a federal independent Communist state under the strong hand of Marshal TITO. Although Croatia declared its independence from Yugoslavia in 1991, it took four years of sporadic, but often bitter, fighting before occupying Serb armies were mostly cleared from Croatian lands. Under UN supervision, the last Serb-held enclave in eastern Slavonia was returned to Croatia in 1998.

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By Born to Explore
August 8th 2009

Hanging Out on Hvar Europe » Croatia » Dalmatia » Hvar

Jelsa lights emerging

We left early in order to make the hour drive back to Spilt and catch the ferry to Hvar. We had pre-bought our ferry tickets but on close scrutiny realized that they were not for any particular boat so we wanted to make sure we would get our car on. The line-ups reminded us of the pandemonium on the docks of Athens but to a much lesser degree. After a couple of u-turns in the middle of traffic, we managed to get ourselves in the right line (we think) to get the 11am ferry to Hvar. The person that guided us [View Full Entry]

By Tias
July 7th 2009

Hvar Life Uncovered Europe » Croatia » Dalmatia » Hvar

On the road back to Hvar

Well guys, for the last 20 something days I have found and enjoyed a steady lifestyle for the first time in a while. I have been working (unofficially of course) for the green lizard hostel where in exchange for around 3 hours of work I get free accom. and free beer (the beer is an amazing local beer too called Karlovacko). More than a fair trade I believe! So a typical day for me over the last few weeks involved getting out of bed at around 10 45 to start work at 10 30........Work involved cleaning up the dorm rooms and [View Full Entry]

By Tias
July 7th 2009

Crazy Angry Croatians Europe » Croatia » Dalmatia » Hvar

Throughout the last few weeks I have been given the opportunity to engage with many croatians, and now that I am safely out of the country I feel I can finally right about it. I am not writing about all croatians, I am however writing about the majority of croatians that I have encountered. These croatians i am speaking about have come across as incredibly angry and bitter people who do not want to have any of us tourists in their country yet desperately need us to be there for them to earn a living (they arent just bitter towards tourists, [View Full Entry]

By Tias
July 1st 2009

Scootering (sorry dad) Europe » Croatia » Dalmatia » Hvar

Storm clouds were brewing

There is an amazingly sweet girl who works at the Green Lizard Hostel named Kristina and today we decided to make the most of her day off work and hire a scooter to fly around the island on. Two scooters would have been ideal but Kristina clearly didn't trust herself driving and the economics worked out better with one scooter also, so we ventured out on one. After a late start to the journey (2pm ish) we hired our scooter down in the main square of Hvar town with the much appreciated help of Kristina's 1st language (being from Zagreb) and [View Full Entry]

By Tias
June 27th 2009

Hvar Again Europe » Croatia » Dalmatia » Hvar

Since the last time that I have written I have flicked the tourist mode switch to the off position and flicked on the "r n r" switch. I have backtracked to the dalmatian island of Hvar in order to enjoy what I couldn't last time I was here. And boy oh boy am I enjoying it. I have settled into the daily routine of beach, nightlife and snoozing with a little food every now and then. Its a good lifestyle but has been taking its toll. I cant elaborate too much on the lifestyle right now, but all will be revealed [View Full Entry]

By Tony and George
June 14th 2009

Island Hopping- Hvar & Korcula Islands Europe » Croatia » Dalmatia » Hvar

Read Number One Very Important When the Boat is Sinking!!!

Hvar We leave Split on our first boat of the trip and head to the island of Hvar. The Croatian island have the look and feel of Italy's Amafi coast and the greek islands but more bite than them, we love Croatia. Hvar is the sunniest place in europe (apparently) receiving 2724 hours of sunshine each year. Hvar town is gorgeous, its built within 13th cenetury walls of medieval Hvar. It marble paved, like split and most old towns in Croatia and very slippy. We were going to camp but we went the wrong way and got fed up of looking [View Full Entry]

By Tias
June 9th 2009

The island of Hvar Europe » Croatia » Dalmatia » Hvar

Well I have little to tell about the island of Hvar beside the fact that im going to be heading back to it soon to actually see it. I have spent the past few days bed ridden with a reasonably bad case of the flu and have only ventured out for food or a quick trip to the beach (nudist beach actually, but ill spare you the details for now). Diving had to be postponed for obvious reasons and on my way to hire a scooter I was getting dizzy spells so I thought it would be wise to leave that [View Full Entry]

By Tias
June 6th 2009

The island of Hvar Europe » Croatia » Dalmatia » Hvar

Hmmmmmmm

Time to relocate again, but this time its to an island called Hvar which is about an hours ferry ride from split. I was really looking forward to the ferry ride, mainly because boats are AWESOME, but also because it would be a nice relaxing ride where I could take in the wonderful views of the dalmatian coast. Unfortunately though, as I was so tired from the previous nights activity I could not keep my eyes open for more than 5 minutes once the boat was moving (damn that soothing back and forth rocking!!!). As has been the case in all [View Full Entry]

By EmandJennie
April 19th 2009

Stari Grad Europe » Croatia » Dalmatia » Hvar

Jennie

We took a ferry from Split to an Island just off the coast called Hvar, and we stayed in this amazing town right on the ocean. [View Full Entry]

By kjlb
October 22nd 2008

Sunshine, Saltwater & Seafood! Europe » Croatia » Dalmatia » Hvar

Some boats in the harbour at Hvar

The smell of salt water & fish is definitely the first thing that springs to mind to describe the air along the coast of Croatia. It was warm and sunny (almost hot), and so very different to the weather that I had left behind in smelly soggy London. A week spent exploring Croatia and its islands sounded to me like a perfect place for a holiday...and it was! I arrived in Split, a small city, which was originally built around the Diocletian palace (a palace/fort built for the retired Roman emperor Diocletian) where the locals sought refuge centuries ago. Wandering the [View Full Entry]

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