A "beach" on Krk

Krk, a Place in the Sun

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July 10th 2011
After a trying night coming to terms with heat that is like a hot blanket we got up to another cloudless day and the need to keep as cool as possible. Our huge hotel is right beside the water and everywhere people were either cooling off in the blue Adriatic or lying in the shade of the many spindly oak trees. A neighbouring camping ground plus day trippers make for a continuous passing parade o ... read more

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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 feder... ... read more