Croatian Highlights # 3

Today I write to you about the lovely isle of Korcula. We took a catamaran from Split to Korcula (unfortunately this girl got a little bit sea-sick or something...not the best 2 hours)

We arrived to the most adorable little town. (again. I know. There are a lot of adorable little towns). We walked for mayyyyybe 5 minutes to our sobe (its a privately owned house and people rent rooms there). We were met by Maria, who showed us to our room with an AMAZING VIEW. Seriously. We had a lovely balcony and could see the sea and the ENTIRE old town. We spent our two mornings in Korcula on that balcony soaking in the sun and that view!

Did you know that marco polo was from korcula? He was! We went through the Marco Polo "museum" and up the tower. A man at the top chatted with us for a while and waxed poetic about many things. But one thing he said particularly stuck with me. He said the Croatian people are strong - they are people made from the rock around them. And yet they are gentle. I found this to be very true. Almost all the Croats I spoke with were open and very kind. I really appreciated that. We had fun walking around the island. Not everything was open (it still isn't tourist season) but we dipped our feet in the Adriatic and there was plenty for us to see. Including the amazing water and breathtaking sunsets. And we also ate some seriously awesome food here. Highlights include the most delicious garlic foccacia-type bread (I actually wrapped the leftovers from our breadbasket in napkins and took them back to the room for later), freshly squeezed orangeslashgrapefruit juice, and succulent rosemary lamb kebabs. sigh.

(I was having fun with the pretzel sticks and thoroughly enjoying myself :) )