CroatiaNovember 8...19, 2014 Croatia is one of the best countries for learning sailing. You can acquire new skills each day and explore a new town each night. SplitMapI don’t actually like Split.  The whole city feels contrived somehow.  Occasionally you come across something genuine, but such moments are extremely rare.  A parking meter.  A fig-sign fountain.  Curiously, there are always planes flying over Croatia. If you sit on the waterfront in Split and look at the sky, you can count at least three at any given moment.  TrogirMapPeople who enjoy sailing are no fools—they know all the good spots.  The castle.  A nook.  A side street.  A trash can that brought Riga to mind.  A market for locals.  RogoznicaMapThe town looks cute from a distance.  But there’s absolutely nothing to see here. The municipal aquarium is the only thing that attracts attention.  ŠibenikMapAn oasis of beauty and antiquity untouched by mass tourism.  If a traveler should ever have to choose between Šibenik and Split, Šibenik is the obvious choice.  Street trash.  A trash can.  Underground garbage containers.  The shutters are green here.  The doors are green.  And it’s just generally full of charm.  SkradinMapA quiet spot with decent restaurants (one of which can even be qualified as very good indeed).  There’s a decent park where the first-ever hydropower plant in Europe was launched in 1895 (two days after the plant in Niagara Falls).  VisMapA cute island.  An insurance plaque.  The old town.  Weighed-down construction materials.  HvarMapThe main square.  It’s neat how the poster panels wrap around the post box.  Vela LukaMapThe largest town on the island of Korčula.  A homeless man staring at a laptop.  MilnaMapA lovely ancient town.  SupetarMapShaded by palm trees.  With oranges.  In clear water.  Lies a sleepy, pretty town with nothing going on.  |
