We arrived in Split and got a local bus to the marina. The mountains surrounding the Dalmatian Coast are beautiful.
Day 2 – Left marina on sailboat Siesta. Passed Bobovisca town. Docked at Milna on Brac island. We hired a scooter here and drove up into the mountains. Very pretty areas! Nice little town, found Tomislav pivo, a type of bock stout beer. Very tasty. After dinner there was a youth rock concert in town – don't want to be rude but they weren't very good!
Day 3 – Anchored at island near Hwar and had to get a boat taxi to Hwar as the port on Hwar was a little too open to the elements. Hwar was quite a touristy town and a large town. Had dinner in a historic little step alley.
Day 4 – Passed Vis island and berthed in Komiza. There was a severe storm on the other side of the island, you can see from the darkness of the clouds here...
Day 5 – Arrived and anchored in Stari-Grad.
We had dinner in a restaurant and you could buy a tube of beer! It could hold 5 litres! There was quite a lot of Bavaria available on the islands we visited which I preferred but the best Croatian beer I found was the Laško Pivo Slovenian beer.
Day 6 – Passed Povlja and berthed in Pučišća. This town's main income is from it's stonemasonry as there is a stone quarry very prominently visible as you enter the port. See here. But there were only two restaurants and a few cafes as it was a very small town. Our beautiful sailing boat the Sietsa outside the town's church...
In the window of a school I found this. It is a model of a kitchen made using small bits of stone from it's quarry. It was so sweet!
Day 7 – Via Brac towns to arrive at Split. The six of us had dinner in town at nice Italian place. Discovered Malibu is nice with apricot nectar!
Day 8 – Left the Siesta and off to our self ciontained apartment in Luciceva, uptown Split. Went to dinner in marina on west side of island and to Tribu for a drink. Realised that all cafe bar drink menus are almost exactly the same for the entire Dalmatian coast where we had travelled! Discovered Orahovac, a walnut liquor which is really nice with Coke. It was very cheap at £1 for a shot and £1 for the coke. It was really hot in Split, 30 - 35 I think and very still.
Day 9 – Sunday... everything closed!! so had to eat, drink and walk in the heat all day. Saw the fantastic 4 with Croatian subtitles in the local town cinema for £4. Sick of eating out so cooked at home!
Day 10 – Walked to forest and a very long walk at south-west of island. Had lunch at the square where we found Hoegaarden! yay!
Day 11 – back home via local bus to the airport where there were no more seats to the airport, it was quite uncomfortable sitting on the floor in a bumpy bus!
