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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This is part of a series called Chiapas road show Villahermosa is actually the capital of the state of Tabasco (and no, not like the sauce – it’s made in Louisiana). It is primarily an industrial state, with a lot of their income from oil. We stopped here to visit a local park and zoo…
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This is part of a series called Chiapas road show This was our longest day of touring around (about 12 hours), but well worth it. We went to see two other archeological sites – Bonampak and Yaxchilan. Individually, they are interesting and have some unique features. But seeing them together is truly wonderful as these…
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This is part of a series called Chiapas road show After taking in a lot of sights from the Colonial period, as well as modern-day Mayan villages, it was time to head down from Los Altos and see some of the state’s natural beauty and ancient ruins. As we drove, it was interesting to see…
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