Arriving in Jelsa
Jelsa
"Non-stop" means open 24 x 7,
sorta
Pretty flowers on a stone wall
Robert with our beer at the hotel,
the Podstine, just outside Hvar town
(about a 15-20 minute walk)
Melissa from our group
Screensaver time!
Robert still with the beer
While I went down to the water
On the water at the hotel
At the home of Boris and Margreta,
our "cooking lesson" dinner hosts
Toni and Melissa
A selection of Croatian wines
Margreta talking about her octopus
salad (which was superb! where can
I buy octopus in Arizona?!)
The seafood risotto in the making
Beautiful table, outdoors
And more wine...
Marko
\Dessert - a kind of zabaglione (if
I had to guess) over a merengue
Riding the next day up past Brusje
towards Stari Grad
Beautiful hillsides - larger view you
can see how the stones are stacked
up on the slopes
Some sage with Liza's route slip
for the day
In Stari Grad for lunch
More beer!
Robert in Hvar town
Both of us!
St Stephen's Square (Trg Svetog
Stjepana) in Hvar
View of Hvar from closer to the
fortified wall, up from the hotel
Part of the fortified wall
More overviews of Hvar
Fish for dinner, anyone?
This display was at the restaurant
Gariful, in Hvar
Church, water, boat
Next day back in Stari Grad, enjoying
a cappuccino while waiting for
the rain to stop...
...which it didn't...
Cliff and Mark sizing up our
riding prospects
Too rainy to ride, so...winery!
In the tasting room at the Pinjata
winery
Having fun!
Wine storage - right in the wall
Nice atmosphere...but this was no
mere tasting - we had whole bottles!
Entrance to the winery
Outside the tasing room
Selection of cheeses with our wine
And did we mention the brandies?
Yup, no riding any time soon
The fortified church in Vrboska
Fishing boat in Vrboska
The light at the end of the
tunnel?
Another view from the hotel Podstine
Pretty flower
The picnic - back at the hotel - that
we were supposed to have in Jelsa
on the rainy day (it was sunny by
late afternoon)
Farewell dinner - Milan, Liza, Marko
Bryan and Robert
Yummy appetizers
Milan, Marko, Linda