BTA part seven - Croatia - Hvar

Oooh - I'm busy at the moment - but I want to finish the Journey before I get onto all of that - so much!
Where were we? Split - ferry to Hvar one of a group of island off the coast (where else would you keep islands?) I don't know about you - but I always think of islands as being small. Well this one isn't. 60 miles long. So no quick walk round the island before breakfast. We were lucky to be invited to stay in our friend Graham's little house on the island and be introduced to all his friends. Without them we would have had a tricky time as they gave us lifts, tours of the scenic bits (all of it) and a lift to the return ferry. We would have been stuck without the lovely Mack for example, who is responsible for the Martini adverts in the 70s! I was singing the tag line in my head for days! 'Any time any place anywhere..... la la la'
Here we got to cook a meal or two and sleep a lot and generally Stop For A While. I read a whole book in one day (Barbara Kingsolver's Bean Tree - very nice) and John explored the coast for birds.
But it rained. For the first time since we set off on our BTA. So there are not many pictures.


Vrboska is the little village where Graham and Sue have their holiday house

Hvar town - view from the old fort - they are my kind of islands

Hvar old town

It was good to have a rest. It was good to have some comfortable sleep. It was good to cook a meal and not have to order from a menu! It was a recharging place for the next part of the journey.
Austria!

Comments

[willow]

I have been absolutely enthralled with your posts of your travels. I even asked my husband how much it would cost for us to take a trip to Eastern Europe (from Southern California...).