We woke to find that the smoke had still not cleared. After coffee, we packed our things while Hugo prepared for his morning work meeting. While Hugo worked, Caro went into the stari grad of Stari Grad for one last wander. She photographed the narrow lanes and beautiful stone buildings, imagining which one she would [...]
Caro woke to the smell of smoke. When she looked out of the window, the sunrise and the whole sky had turned an eerie orange-brown. Google Maps showed around ten wildfires burning in the wider region. Luckily, none of them appeared to be on Hvar, but there was enough smoke in the air to make [...]
We started the day by walking around the harbour to Lanterna Beach, on the opposite side from where we were staying. We swam until the heat began to win, then made our way back through the houses and into the old town by streets we had not explored before. Near the eastern edge of the [...]
Before setting off for Hvar, we allowed ourselves a late start. We had breakfast in the room—bread with cheese, salami and tomatoes—then packed and were walking towards Split's ferry port by 10:00. Our route took us through the market, where we stopped for some people-watching before deciding that it might be wise to locate the [...]
We had a quick coffee in our room and then headed into Split's old town. The plan was to explore for a while before Hugo's workday began, but the early start had another advantage: we had many of the little cobbled alleyways almost entirely to ourselves. From the harbour, we walked through the vaulted stone [...]
We had to return the rental car at Split Airport by 10:00, so we left our accommodation at 09:30. The airport is fairly small and finding the correct car park was easy. The return itself took about 30 seconds: we handed over the keys and that was that. There were no issues, inspections or surprise [...]
We woke up in our apartment feeling a little tired after a mosquito had interrupted our sleep several times during the night. After coffee and baked egg on bread, we packed up and headed out. We had some time before check-in, so we decided to find a beach along the way and go for a [...]
We started the morning with coffee and the leftover pizza. Hugo had a work meeting, and once that was finished we packed up and got back on the road. Back on the road and heading south. Along the way we decided to stop at a viewpoint. We could only drive so far and had to [...]
We moved through our usual morning routine—coffee, a makeshift breakfast and packing—faster than normal, and were on the road just after 09:00. Fifteen minutes later, Hugo asked, “Did you see the passports after we lugged them around the park with us?” We pulled over beside the road and searched through our things, but could not [...]
We got up at 07:00, made coffee and packed our bags. Before leaving Zagreb, we walked to a bakery near the cathedral and bought a few different kinds of burek for breakfast. We deliberately chose the slower Bolt option, thinking that would give us time to eat. Naturally, it arrived within minutes. About half an [...]
