Boat diary.

Old Church in Tribunj town and rocky islands of Adriatic Sea.

Part 2.

What do I think of Croatia? I think it is an amazingly beautiful and exotic country. I love the little towns with narrow streets, crooked passages, little kitchen gardens attached to the houses. It reminded me of the comedy “Diamond Arm” (“Briliantovaya Ruka”). The climate is dry and hot in summer and cool and humid in winter. The Adriatic coast is subtropical so the winter is very mild there. The islands are steep and rocky covered with shrubs and mostly olive and fig trees. There are no beaches anywhere so people sunbathe on the rocks. There are a lot of tourists from Germany, Italy, Britain, Russia, whom the locals are happy to have back as during the civil war in the 1990s the tourism industry decreased.

There are small markets where you can buy local produce of fruit (peaches, melons, nectarines, figs, plums), vegetables (tomatoes, cucumbers, capsicums, potatoes, eggplants) and olive oil. Peter and I went out a few times for dinner and ate on the boat the rest of the time. I think the most exotic dish I tried was a calamari ink risotto (a rice dish slowly cooked with white wine and stock, served with seafood, chicken and vegetables and in my case with calamari ink). The color was black (because of the ink) and the taste was strong and fishy but delicious. Also we ate a lot of locally made ice cream, which was the only thing that was cheaper than in Australia.

This is the end of the trip. During these two weeks, we went about 100km up North of the cost and then back to Trogir. Surprisingly, we did not get seasickness as much as we thought we would. Only on the last three days the weather was very windy so we took seasickness tablets but didn’t get very sick.