When we are not on the water in Croatia, we like to escape Split by heading into the hills behind the city. Our favorite trail is up from the village of Sitno Gornje to the peak of Mosor. On the way is Planinarski dom Umberto Girometta at 868m above sea level. (A planinarski dom is [...]

The last two weeks have been a little disappointing – and between trying to fix the problems and run tours we haven’t had time to post regularly on the blog. Its written somewhere that bad news comes in threes – so hopefully we have good times ahead. #1 – Time Out Croatia We provided numerous [...]

Jane Cody, who is holidaying in England at the moment, wrote an article on her blog, Croatia Online, regarding Split’s renown Renaissance author Marko Marulić’s influence on England’s Henry VIII. Jane does her self an injustice – describing her blog as not an in depth cultural resource on Croatia – her prose and subjects are [...]

Split’s a small town – almost 250,000 people – and the traditional wooden boat community is even smaller. Tonka Alujević, our sea-faring friend and owner of Bonnie’s ‘favorite boat in the world‘, is also a journalist. The latest edition of Otvoreno More, the local nautical magazine, features her article on the Dani Hrvatske Male Brodogradnje [...]

I’m not going to sugar coat it – it would be a difficult task to find rougher towns in Europe than some of the towns of Dalmatinska Zagora, such as Sinj, Trilj and Imotski. But there are still hidden gems out behind the hills to be discovered. Take Restaurant Premijer. Having given up searching for [...]

While Dalmatia’s traditional boats allowed for the movement of goods and people on the water, on the other side of the Dinaric Alps four-legged transport was used. Donkeys were used for the heavy work, such as lifting the grapes, while horses did the rest. An event called the Alka is held in Sinj in August [...]

Emilio Mendušič was kind enough to show us the birds at his Falcon Centre on Saturday. Emilio and the volunteers have created one of the rare raptor rescue centres in Europe. Visitors can spend an hour walking around the compound, including the hospital, feeding the birds and being educated by the team. (For example did [...]

Aklie wanted to see where SpongeBob SquarePants is from, so we went for a drive up the coast to Krapanj – apparently the smallest and lowest inhabited island in Croatia. Krapanj, located in the Šibenik archipelago, lies 300m from the mainland town of Brodarice and is best known for sponge diving and the unusual occupation [...]

Tim and I went to Šibenik today to sit the small boat skipper license (voditelj brodice) examination at the Harbour Master’s (Lučka Kapetanija) office. If you do not have a licence from home or if you have a licence that does not contain a VHF-licence, you need to sit a short oral test to get [...]

Andjelka, our cousin, got married the other day. Every good Croatian wedding needs several things. 1. Cars with horns blaring. Saturday is wedding day in Croatia, and weddings are not quiet events. The racket starts when the towns are filled with lines of cars, all with horns blasting, traveling from the grooms’ houses to the [...]