The travels of Tim and Megan: Hvar, Croatia

Saturday

Tim got up early on Saturday and went for a walk around the waterfront. It was around 7.30am and while it was still very warm, the water was completely still and the town was quiet and peaceful. After Megan had arisen, we had a very good buffet breakfast in out hotel. It can be hard to get good hotel breakfast in foreign countries - it is sometimes below average or just really different foods to what we would expect to eat for breakfast, but this was very nice.

We then wandered down to the main harbour and caught a water taxi out to the Pakleni Islands, just off the coast of Hvar. We had been told that these islands (particularly Jerolim and Stipanska) had beautiful beaches and that they would be much less crowded. This was true. We spent the morning lying on the beach at Stipanska. There were hardly any people around and the water was perfect. We paddled in the shallow water, which came up to our knees, and could see our feet so clearly it was like there was no water at all.

A short water taxi ride back to Hvar saw us return to Cafe Pjaca for lunch. This time Megan had the burger, which really was quality and Tim had a club sandwich - equally solid. After lunch, we returned to the little bay near our hotel for more lazy sunbathing and paddling in the water. It was a pretty popular spot! Some more Croatian beer on our hotel room balcony followed before we headed into town for dinner at a restaurant called Hannibal. Tim had grilled fish and Megan had seafood pasta (Croatia is famous for its seafood). They also have excellent ice cream and gelato in Hvar, so we got ice cream on the way home.

Sunday

We were woken at 4.30am by a group of extremely loud, drunken Aussies skinny-dipping in the water right outside our window. Rather humorous in hindsight but not so fun at the time. We managed to get back to sleep once they left. Breakfast in the hotel was solid again and then we explored the Old Town some more. We think Sunday was the hottest day of the whole week, so it didn't take us long to find our way to the beach. This time we walked around past the other side of the main harbour to the next bay around, which has the impressive looking Amfora resort. We enjoyed another relaxing day on the sun chairs and cooling off in the water. Unfortunately we did turn a little pink, despite loads of sunscreen.

In the evening we caught the ferry from Hvar to Split and then caught a bus to a town just outside of Split, called Trogir, which is close to the Split airport. Trogir was a beautiful little village and we would have liked to have had a look around, but we arrived late on Sunday night and we had another early start on Monday, so we checked in to the Villa Jidro (which was really nice - two thumbs up) and went straight to bed.