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July 2023

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The Olive Groves of Lun

Anything that is around 2000 years old and is alive is worth visiting, okay? Anything. Look at this dude: I honestly don’t know how it doesn’t have a name, I’d call him Oliver, of course. Old Oliver the olive tree. Believed to have been struck by lightning once during its life, Ollie is about 4 …

Mr. Dubrovnik himself

Debating whether or not to go took us probably longer than the actual trip itself. No, not really: it’s one long road trip for five people in a tiny Hyundai Bayon. In that vehicle, in order for the whole cupé to be of a bearable temperature when its +35 outside, the driver has to get …

Local beaches, limited rating

Short and brutal. Have only been to, like 3 closest ones. Plaža is the word, by the way. So. Novalja. Sucks the hardest of them all. It’s your stereotypical horrible spring-break type of place, full of drunk youth, looking to get more drunk. The place would be beautiful otherwise, with the mountains in the back, …

Sveti Vid, Pag’s top

A perfectly fine easy hike to the island’s highest point, Sveti Vid, towering the whole 349 metres above the sea (we climbed, like, 220 of them). You walk 2km along some old farm/shepherd roads and then another kilometer up a mountain path to the top. There’s a ruin of something that is for sure an …