Journal

We got up early and walked the 1.7 kilometres back to Korčula’s old town before Hugo’s workday began. The timing worked perfectly. The air was still cool and the town was almost empty, giving us [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 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 [...]