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 …
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 …
That weird buzz in the bakside got us up and going again. Walking and climbing, to be exact. Or, even, throwing ourselves into the horribly dangerous adventure, should you choose to believe my wife. In a moment of misguided trust in my naive cyberhelper Komoot, I let it plot the trail for us over whatever …
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, …
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 …
All right, all right! Now, that’s some real tourism, finally! Just kidding, it’s all been great so far, but Split is still Split – a bigger destination for tourism, former home of emperor Diocletian and marvel of the old world. Modern pop-culture did a bit of a number on the place, some locations having been …
Trogir is a side dish (no, appetiser!) for Split. It’s tiny but just as historically-ancient-important-Roman-times – you get the idea. Yes, charming. I would also expect it to be ten times as charming off-season, when you could actually see the town currently mostly hidden behind summer restaurants, cafés, bars and conobas (does it mean tavern?) …
Šimuni is a village next to our lovely Kolan, but down at the western side of the island, facing south-west. There’s a tiny harbour, which probably profiled the place as a fishing village in its time. Now it has a marina with recreational-looking vessels in it, a tiny promenade and some food places. Won’t pretend …
The place is actually kind of genius if you have a car, which we have. It’s a tiny village (2km long, I measured) in the middle of the island Pag, between two slightly larger coastal towns: Pag and Novalje. Haven’t seen Pag yet. Novalje kinda sucks at the first glance. Crowded beach resort, overtaken by …
Yes, corporate greed has been trying to remove the last of our decency for years. Having to weigh your meager set of belongings in a plastic baggie is, well, a sad necessity these days. I suppose we’re lucky they don’t put together weights of our luggage, clothes on our backs and our own (not yet, …
