Greg and Deb's Travel Blog

We were collected from our hotel at around 9:45am and taken down into Hvar. We walked from the carpark to the area on the wharf where the ferries come and go. It’s always a mystery how the system works, no signs anywhere, no real indication where each ferry is going to, masses of tourists with perplexed looks on their faces – but it does, somehow. The ferry left on time at 10:15am.
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Deb had an early start to our day. Did anyone catch her sunrise pics?
We had a plan, after a strenuous days sailing yesterday (lazing around all day really does take it out of you) we thought we would take it easy today and explore Hvar. 😁
We walked over to the main town square and bought some more sunscreen, we have been through a fair bit on the holiday so far, sun feels much stronger here.
We decided to go to the Franciscan Monastery to see the “famous” Last Supper painting that is there. Rather than walk around the foreshore way we took the back streets. It was so much more interesting and away from all the people getting cruises, ferries and generally onto boats around the harbour. Continue reading →

This holiday thing is getting way too stressful 🤣 so we are having an easy day today.
Breakfast at 8am and a walk into town at about 9:30am to meet up with our Sailing captain for our day sailing around the Pakleni Islands. I’m glad we are rule “followers”, they’re a bit strict here in Hvar!

Rules, a bit tough here.

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We had breakfast and were in Hvar town ready for the 10:15am meet-up time for our Blue Cave Small Group Speed Boat Tour. The tour left at 10:30am.

There were 12 of us on the tour, plus the driver(captain) and a deckhand. There were 6 Americans, an English couple and 4 Australians (including us). It wasn’t a bad mix, and everyone got along pretty well.
Our boat cruised at about 25 to 35 knots.

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Deb tells me we have just hit the start of our forth week away. That’s gone way too quickly.
Today we left Korcula and took a catamaran to Hvar for the next 4 nights. We had a late checkout, noon, and a quiet morning.
We checked out at midday, I felt the young guy who brought our bags down from the 2nd (or 3rd for any other hotel) floor, no lift remember, earning every euro cent of the tip we gave him.
We got picked up in the “resort style buggy”, same as when we arrived, at 12:25pm and we reached the wharf at 12:30pm.
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We had a wine tour late morning/early afternoon, the timing turned out to be a good thing. Just after we finished breakfast the heavens opened up and the wind began to blow and visibility reduced dramatically. We were in our room when it all hit which was lucky on a few fronts, we were out of the weather and we were able to shut the windows to stop the water streaming down the walls and dripping on our luggage! All good, fixed, our luggage is now cleaner!

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0We were picked up at 2pm and were at the wharf by 2:15pm. There was no signage anywhere, and 3 catamarans tied up at the wharf. One was loading, the other two were deserted. I asked at a ticket kiosk on the way in and got a grunt and a point in the general direction of two boats. I asked at the one that was loading and got pointed to a smaller sleek looking catamaran. We joined a growing group of confused looking people. Continue reading →

Another slow start to the day. Breakfast around 8:30am. Deb decided she wanted a slow day with her book, yesterday was a pretty big day. We had planned, today was a designated leisure day, or do whatever we wanted sort of day.
Eveready bunny me, decided it was a good day to have a bit more of a look around Dubrovnik and the Old Walled City. Continue reading →