Blogs from Croatia, Europe - page 150

We made port in Croatia and it was more beautiful than I could have imagined. A blue harbor with many people enjoying themselves on their boats and white houses lining the hillsides. We took a short bus ride into Dubrovnik. This is such a cute town that still has high city walls surrounding it. The best part is, that you can pay to walk the city walls, and we did just that. I took some awesome photos and posted a few here for you to see. It took us about 45 minutes to walk most of the city wall and then we decided to stop to get a bite to eat. Along the way we saw local people hanging laundry, sitting on their porches, children in school, working on construction, etc. ... read more

We have learned that if we want sailing to be enjoyable we need to be flexible. We had planned to head south into Montenegro for a few days before heading north with Thetis, however the 5-day forecast predicted, accurately as it happens, that we would encounter SE winds up to 40 knots. with rain showers changing to the NE after 3 days. This would means 7 hours banging into the wind to get to Montenegro and the same coming back. We decided Montenegro could wait for another year with more favorable winds and headed north on a leisurely broad reach. First stop, Cod Marca on Sipan. The food is delicious with smoked tuna and garlic shrimp to die for with a main course of Amber Jack caught in the morning. Moored just off the restaurant we ... read more

I know it's only until June 16 that we're doing the free dinner on the first night, but it was a shame to miss out on the picnic in Hvar. Pax love it, it allows us to do something special for them, and it's a good money-maker for us. If it's possible to get some leeway on when the boat does the free dinner so that we can still do the picnic, that would be great. But we made do anyway; we brought bottles of wine down to the beach and watched the sunset from there after dinner (both mine and Carlos' groups went together). So we didn't miss out entirely on a picnic-like experience. And, once again, Kiva bar was a roaring success and Sasa was terrific to everyone (and the girls loooove Sasa). Day ... read more

Hi all We left you full of beautiful food in London. Well, then we flew to Budapest and continued our journey by train and coach to Dubrovnik. Whilst the beautiful coastal drive south of Split is well known we were blown away by the train ride from Zageb to Split. It takes seven hours on a tilt train travelling through the mountains and high valleys of Croatia. We couldn't stop oohing and aahing on the scenery and the comfort of the modern fast train. Finally about 8pm we descended the last steep mountain to Split- it felt as if we would tumble straight into the ocean! After one night in Split we continued by coach along the Adriatic coast to Dubrovnik. The original road that twists and turns along the steep coastal mountains is still in ... read more

I travelled to croatia for just over a week - spent 7 days on sailing croatia tour. Saw some wonderful sites, met some awesome people, sunbaked, swam and probably drank way too much! ;)... read more