This is part of a series called Pan European Sojourn 2023 This morning we visited Novi Sad, a truly multicultural city in Serbia. While most of the places we have visited during this trip had significant Ottoman impact through occupation of up to 500 years, no such thing happened here as the Ottoman Turk advance…
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I thought I would add a small postscript to the end of our time on the Aurum. We left the ship in the late morning under cloudy (what would become very rainy) skies. We were only going to spend the day there, so we didn’t stop back in Dubrovnik, having been there before. Instead, we…
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This is part of a series called Cruising the Dalmatian Islands Today marked the last day of our cruise aboard the Aurum. Since there wasn’t a lot of distance from Mljet to Dubrovnik, we stopped at the small island of Sipan. The real reason we wanted to stop there was to hit the ATM so…
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This is part of a series called Cruising the Dalmatian Islands After the incessant eating, drinking, touring, and shopping that has characterized the trip up to this point, today we anchored at the national park island of Mljet. It is a beautiful, unspoiled island with a lake that dominates the southern portion, ending in a canal…
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This is part of a series called Cruising the Dalmatian Islands Today we stopped in one of the true jewels of the Adriatic – Korcula. It lies just off the Dalmation coast and is the most populated island in the Adriatic that isn’t connected to the mainland by bridge. It is very narrow here, and…
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This is part of a series called Cruising the Dalmatian Islands Today we arrived in Vis, another small island that has only been recently modernized because for several years before Croatia’s independence in 1991, Vis housed a secret Yugoslav base and travel was severely restricted there. Having said that, as in many other islands in…
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This is part of a series called Cruising the Dalmatian Islands Today, we made our way over to the other side of the island of Hvar, to the town of the same name. This “city” (less than 4000 people) has always been a cross roads in the Adriatic – whether for trade or military campaigns. …
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This is part of a series called Cruising the Dalmatian Islands For the past week, we have been cruising the Adriatic Sea aboard a 95 foot gulet (sailing yacht) named Aurum along with five other couples. The boat is owned by a Croatian family (the Gacina’s), where the son (Jere) serves as the captain and…
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This is part of a series called Cruising the Dalmatian Islands There are hundreds of small islands between Split and Dubrovnik and we are going to stop in as many as we can. After an evening in a remote anchorage, we stopped off in Milna to get fuel. Just a short stop, but a very…
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Ah, it’s good to be back in Croatia – beautiful surroundings, friendly and resilient people, amazing history, and great food! On this trip we are spending a few days in Split, and then taking a gulet ( a 2-masted sailing vessel, originally from Turkey, but now broadly in use around the Eastern Mediterranean) sail down…
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