The Great Watermelon Voyage in Croatia

We were contacted a couple of weeks back by James Bender of the Adriatic Maritime Institute, about a great fund-raising event being organized later this month on the Croatian coast, I thought it would be quite interesting to share this with our readers and followers.

I report below what they intend to do.

THE GREAT WATERMELON VOYAGE – AN ADRIATIC ODYSSEY

Have you ever wondered how goods used to get to and from the islands in the old days. Some students from the Maestal Home for Children will get to find out.

Croatia vs. London garden

which one do you prefer, our Croatian garden or our London one?
we love them both, they are so different, they are both the result of very hard work, we did not find them like this!!

Croatia?

more adventures in Croatia – Jan and Winnie in Komarna

We continue our series “more adventures in Croatia“, by introducing friends and like-minded people who have bought a holiday home in Croatia, or made a new life in this country.

A very warm welcome today to Jan and Winnie Skov, who live in Denmark, but enjoy visiting their holiday home(s) located in sunny Komarna in Croatia.

Jan and Winnie Skov love to holiday in Croatia

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WHO’S BEEN EATING AT THIS TABLE??!!

who’s been eating at this table?

Croatian liquid gold

got you thinking, didn’t I?
what do you imagine, a new discovery of deposits of gold in Croatia?

something like this?

not really!!!

Flash Gordan finds someone who can “kill everything…..”

Hari and the bouganvilla

Let us introduce to you Hari, our new best friend in Croatia.

Hari does all the work around the garden and more, he is our handy-man who works for hours on end, digging and pulling and chopping and pruning. We could not look after our Croatian garden without him.

Seba Dizajn...500 years of beauty.

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Can you imagine a family business which goes back five centuries! A beautiful business which reaches back in time, capturing age-old designs and passing on incredible skills...This is the incredible jewellery of Seba Dizajn.

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following on from our previous post about the Adventures of Adolf and Ruth Seba in Korcula, here is a post by a fellow blogger who is also enchanted by Seba Dizajn's silver creations. A truly unique artisan tradition going back 500 years

more adventures in Croatia: Adolf & Ruth Seba in Korčula

This week for our series “more adventures in Croatia” we are very pleased to introduce a fellow blogger, who’s travelled half-way round the world to settle in Croatia, coming all the way from New Zealand.

Let’s welcome to our virtual hammock Adolf and Ruth Seba, who live on the Croatian island of Korčula, and have been renovating their family property there for the past two years. Adolf is known locally as Doka, so this is the name used in the interview below.

you can read more interviews at these links:
-Chris and Tajana in Kaštela
-John and Rachael in Korčula
-Xania and Craig in Vis
- Jude and Jackie in Čiovo

Ruth and Adolf Seba live on the island of Korčula

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When we shop in Croatia, sometimes we are faced with up to 10 credit card swipe machines at the till.
What do you think of this picture?
Have you experienced this in any other country?
answers on postcard a credit card slip please…

“Show me the money” Croatian style

What to do in Croatia – explore the narrow streets of Trogir

Trogir, UNESCO world heritage site, a walled city on an island in Central Dalmatia.
The cover photograph at the top of Our Adventure blog shows its promenade or Riva, where you can take a stroll, eat pizza or ice-cream, watch the world go by and in summer admire the many expensive yachts which moor along the quayside and in the marina.
A place to see and be seen.

Trogir Riva

The sound of cricket in Croatia

Aaahhh, the sound of cricket, so very summery, so very Mediterranean…

chirr – chirr – chirr – chirr

no, not THIS cricket !!

more adventures in Croatia: Jude and Jackie in Čiovo

As part of our series “more adventures in Croatia“, this week we interview our neighbours Jude and Jackie, who live in Brighton on the south coast of Great Britain, and who – just like us – a few years ago embarked on the adventure of buying a holiday home in Croatia, on the island of Čiovo near Split, where our house is also located.

Jude and Jackie with the medieval city of Trogir in the background

you can read more Croatian Adventurers stories in this series at these links:

-Chris and Tajana in Kaštela
-John and Rachael in Korčula
-Xania and Craig in Vis

Scenes from Dubrovnik

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"If you want to see heaven on earth, come to Dubrovnik." - George Bernard Shaw

Dubrovnik. The Croatian city's name conjures images of forbidding city walls, fire red rooftops, buildings crafted out of white stone, and a graceful city perched above the vast Adriatic.

For the past days, we've zigzagged through Dubrovnik, hunting out the city's maskerons, picnicking on backstreets with laundry lines overhead, riding the city's cable car to Mount Srdj, and strolling the city's famous walls.

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blogging friend Tricia's views of Dubrovnik, great images

when Croatia gives you lemons, make boozy Limoncello

We are very lucky to have a few fruit trees in our Croatian garden, and during our latest visit at Easter, there were still some lemons on our 3 lemon trees. Our plants have not been sprayed nor treated with pesticides nor other chemicals, so they are truly organic lemons.

In our small Croatian garden we also have a grapefruit tree, a fig tree, a few olive trees, a pomegranate and wild asparagus. Oh and we are going to plant some orange and tangerine trees. How fab is it to have this little orchard in our back yard!

But back to the lemons, first of all we picked the ones which were still on the trees.

juicy lemons ready for picking

We got a basket of them from just one tree. So what would you do with a couple of dozen lemons?

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Can you finish the sentence?

“No time to stop, I am off shopping for……
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