Homepage - Croatia - September 11 to 23, 2013

Here's the blog in chronological order. Click on any photo for a larger version.

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• Two days before departure
• Ready to go - VINO VOLO
• Frankfurt layover
• Dubrovnik
• Dubrovnik part 2
• Trogir
• Skrip to the island of Brac
• Puscisca and the stone cutter school
• The ancient village of Skrip - olive oil
• Postira - dinner in a cistern
• it's hard to find time to blog
• Vidova Gora - highest point of the island and back...
• Dinner at Dol Castle
• Bike to Zlatni Rat Beach - Ferry to Hvar
• HVAR Town
• Croatian cooking lesson
• Ride Hvar's Wilderness to Stari Grad
• Hvar town scenes
• Split and Diocletians Palace
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My next bike:

Split and Diocletians Palace

Sunday and we head for the mainland. The Adriatic is a great sailing destination. Maybe that's the way to visit next time.

Diocletians Palace in Split.

Ancient Roman security camera.

Ancient Roman wine or olive press.

Ancient basicilla.

Ancient Game of Thrones set.
The stairway was paper mache' and there was  a security guard who wouldn't let us take pictures. What do they think? I'm gonna sell this to Showtime?

Window.

Great sign: "Wall of a construction of unknown purpose built of chiselled stone block."

Just outside the Palace.

Bye. Till next trip...

Hvar town scenes

 Moonrise behind the Arsenal

 Gate to the fortress

You can't tell from here but some of these yachts we enormous. 100' plus.

I think this date is 1475.

 Very cool sundial on the side of the Benedictine convent. The nuns inside create beautiful and pricey lace with threads from the aloe.

 Saturday hoops in the square. Dalmations are tall people and are well represented in the NBA. Our hotel is directly behind the backboard.

The only Dalmation (dog) we saw.

Ride Hvar's Wilderness to Stari Grad

Friday, Sept. 20

A good day of biking today. It starts by riding through the gates of the Spanish fortress and a 4 mile climb on a mountain road with some pretty scary switchbacks. Donna and I choose to take the easy way by riding to the top in the van and gliding down the other side.

The entire island is streaked with thousands of rock walls, the work of two thousand years of work to make the land productive. The walls were not made to create fences - but to clear way to find earth to plant olives and grapes.

Its Friday and the weekenders are sailing to Hvar from the mainland.

Stari Grad, the oldest continuously occupied settlement in Dalmatia. 

First the Illyrians, then the Greeks, The Romans and the Croatians.

Actually, they've found relics of Neanderthals in the area as well.

 Our retirement project:

This old hotel was closed and for sale. Jim and I fantasized about buying it and selling time shares. I'd be happy to stay behind and run it. Anyone interested in investing? We are steps away from the water.

Gelato break: