Stari Grad Croatia – Pilot and Me

We determined to do a 7 day Yacht cruise with Sail Croatia and one in all our stops was a city referred to as Stari Grad. Its rumored to be the primary settlement of Europeans, courting again 3,500 years. Initially settled by greeks, Stari Grad is a port city, with outlets and an unseemly variety of church buildings. There are extra church buildings per capita than some other place on the planet.

One of many cool issues we bought to do whereas in Stari Grad was do some wine tasting. There’s a native winery referred to as Hora. We bought to style numerous completely different wines, in addition to breads, olive oil, and different issues which might be all made on web site. The vienyard is owned by the identical household that has owned it for many years and it positioned on a UNESCO protected web site as a result of the partitions that had been constructed as terraces for the grape fields had been put up by the Greeks over 3,000 years in the past. (We didn’t take an image however did tackle of us wine tasting.)

We actually just like the city of Stari Grad and was instructed that in the summertime the Promenade was so crowded from individuals visiting you would hardly stroll round. Its very cheap right here, with dinner plates beginning round $8 and you may simply have a pleasant dinner for two for about $30 with out drinks. Pastries on the native store had been about $1 every and a scoop of ice cream about $1.20.

The cruise ship we had been on was referred to as the Kraljica Jelena, which is Croatian for Queen Jelena. We couldn’t pronouce it, and don’t anticipate you to have the ability to as properly. The “j” is normally silent, just like the j in Spanish, or a smooth “h” sound. Our crew, all 8 of them, had been implausible. The ship solely has 19 cabins, and since we had been on the first cruise of the season, early Might, there have been solely 8 cabins being occupied (16 whole vacationers). It made every part simpler, and we bought to know everybody by the tip of the 2nd day. Our cruise was an “Explorer” cruise, however we had been stunned to be the third youngest couple, with the opposite {couples} all being of their 60s, 70s, and early 80s. They’ve deliberate rafting, some swim stops (the water is absolutely chilly proper now) and biking. Its an exquisite ship and model new. They simply completed it final yr.