Saturday 21 July 2012
Love being Tourist.. Trip tips to the island Hvar- History BC
40000 BC Life from of some sort of humanoids on the island can be traced back to Milena's ago as far as prehistory and back 40 000 years.
4000 BC Neolithic than marks its self on Hvar in the form of 6000 year old terracotta remains and design which is specific to Hvar and mainland near the town of Sibenik, and has thus gained name the HVAR DANILO culture. (A contemporary writer has researched the theme and in his book proposes how that culture used to be into adoration of a mother goddess with enormous breasts and hips with a philosophy of living with no violence and living only for pleasure, making love and dancing.)
2000 BC New warrior tribes named Ilirians take over the lands which now form Croatia of which one of the tribes where the ARDIYEYCI after whom the Adriatic Sea has been named.
7000-400BC During the last millennium Before Christ the Greeks had developed a fine culture, surpassed their neighbours in terms of technology and often dared to travel and investigate the Adriatic Sea. To them the Adriatic was a frightful wast expanse of land and sea populated by incomprehensible barbarians.
Many of the adventures later descirbed by Homer in The ODYSSEY in fact are assumed to be adventures encountered in the Adriatic, Archaeologists indeed theorise that in fact THE CYCLOPS one eyed giant must have come from Hvar island. Homer Describes how the Greeks landed on an island where they encountered a one eyed giant living in a cave. In the south of the island _Hvar there is a Cave named GRAPČEVA ŠPILJA around which a race of people 2.5 meter in height where found buried. At the time of the encounter with the gints the Greeks where smaller in height and even today 2.5 meters is enormous and beyond normal height . The geographic descriptions as to the location of this giants cave also appears to place Cyclops on Hvar.
400 BC A Greek tyrant and warrior called Dinosos the elder managed to conquer Syracuse and take Sisely. He makes his base there and than heads forth on to the Adriatic with intent to stay. Dynosus concurs the island south of HVar and now called VIS, deriving from the original name Dynosus gave his new colony ISSA. Dynosus invites all Greeks to than colonise the Adriatic assuring his assistance in defending any new colonies fromed.
On his invitation colonists from Pharos back in Greece, 388BC land on the island Hvar, in a enormous natural bay perfect for protecting their ships on the north of the island, surrounded by very fertile lands, they built a town and apply the Greek land division method to share the new found land. The new colony they name PHAROS.
Pharos is surrounded by and co-exists on the same island with the original Illirian population with who the plenty of un wanted encounters with the nation of pirates.
A century and half after the colony was the New colony a Greek Named Demetrius is born who fights the troublesome Ilirians and gains hims self the honour of leading the colony Pharos, with support of the neighbouring Romans who where themselves in the process of expanse..
Demetrius however switches policies and looses the Romans friendship by marrying the Queen and Wife of dead ilirian King Aragon and so comes to be ruler and king of a large territory encompassing islands in the north Adriatic, and wast inland territories , to the south with a large navy and ambitions to expand. .
Demitrious having taken ower some roman territories however was stopped in his tracks by the Romans who fearing Demetriouses ambition attacked PHAROS, and after a large battle at sea which produced many casualties, and during whixh they took thoussands of slaves, slaves, the Romans destroyed Pharos City walls as a lesson and than took ower Dimitriuses Territories on the Adriatic and so began a Roman invasion and the over taking if what are now Croatian territories, which eventualy and after many bloodey battles with aborigine peoples became Roman privinces until Roman empire fell in the 7th century AD.
Tuesday 17 July 2012
Love being Tourist.. Trip tips on the island Hvar- Exploring
LAVENDER EXPLAINED
The island of Hvar is known for its lavender . About a 100 years ago a disease had torn up the vineyards and destroyed the production of vine upon which the islanders where depend and to survive. Many islanders emigrated to the New World, whilst those who stayed began to plant lavender flower and produce lavender oil selling it to french perfume houses and so on. The lavender flower thus afforded the inhabitants to survive and there has become a simbole of life to the islanders. One of the best gifts to take from the island must be the lavender oil which is pure and can be used in the bath, on skin, as a hair maske together with olive oil, in the oil burner and for many medicinal purposes, and the brilliant thing is it costs so little in comparison to its price abroad. Also its scent is rather different from the the English lavander, the sun making it much more potent and strong as opposed to granny.
HIKING BIKING Hvar is a very long island covet with hills of which many have been planted with lavender flower. Most family's own lavender fields. It is fascinating to take the bus or bikes or even hike trough the lavender fields.
The panorama from the Hvar hills is phenomenal and looks upon all the surrounding islands for miles. Another fascinating sight are millions and millions of hand placed wall heaps which form mazes on the hills and look as if they have been constructed by aliens or Aztecs or other such mysterious beings other than simple farmers who in fact piled tones and tones of stones in a very geometric pattern across all of the islands hills.
GHOST TOWNS In Hvar hills there are many mostly abandoned towns which are perfect and full of beautiful stone houses, abut entirely empty alike the town VELO GRABLJE. The towns are property of families who have moved out to Hvar Town ,and are used only to cook up moon-shine or to visit during certain festivals and religious days. Often they posses some sort of vine canteen where one may replenish some strength. But the towns are fascinating to explore. And VELO GRABLJE for example along it has a wonderful biking-hiking down hill route, which cuts trough nature and than towards the sea to the sea town MILNA where on can choose a creek to enjoy to themselves.
DRIVE TROUGH TOSCANY The north part of the island above the towns JELSA and STARI GRAD are very green and lush and covered with vineyards. The whole region looks like Tuscany and is very beautiful.. I certainly recommend renting a scooter of convertible car and driving trough than having lunch in the fresher mountaines or villages above the vine farming town of SVIRČE..
THE CREEKS In evey island port there are people renting out small boats which can be hired with a tiny motor without a licence... Or a speed boat or a sailing boat can be hired together with a skipper. The island is rich with wonderful creeks and bays, clean seas, and sometimes bays full of deers incredibly. Taking a boat is the best way to explore beautiful bays, going for a swim, and very often in the middle of no where you will arrive at some cute hap hap-hazard restaurant at sea to replenish energies.
The island of Hvar is known for its lavender . About a 100 years ago a disease had torn up the vineyards and destroyed the production of vine upon which the islanders where depend and to survive. Many islanders emigrated to the New World, whilst those who stayed began to plant lavender flower and produce lavender oil selling it to french perfume houses and so on. The lavender flower thus afforded the inhabitants to survive and there has become a simbole of life to the islanders. One of the best gifts to take from the island must be the lavender oil which is pure and can be used in the bath, on skin, as a hair maske together with olive oil, in the oil burner and for many medicinal purposes, and the brilliant thing is it costs so little in comparison to its price abroad. Also its scent is rather different from the the English lavander, the sun making it much more potent and strong as opposed to granny.
HIKING BIKING Hvar is a very long island covet with hills of which many have been planted with lavender flower. Most family's own lavender fields. It is fascinating to take the bus or bikes or even hike trough the lavender fields.
The panorama from the Hvar hills is phenomenal and looks upon all the surrounding islands for miles. Another fascinating sight are millions and millions of hand placed wall heaps which form mazes on the hills and look as if they have been constructed by aliens or Aztecs or other such mysterious beings other than simple farmers who in fact piled tones and tones of stones in a very geometric pattern across all of the islands hills.
GHOST TOWNS In Hvar hills there are many mostly abandoned towns which are perfect and full of beautiful stone houses, abut entirely empty alike the town VELO GRABLJE. The towns are property of families who have moved out to Hvar Town ,and are used only to cook up moon-shine or to visit during certain festivals and religious days. Often they posses some sort of vine canteen where one may replenish some strength. But the towns are fascinating to explore. And VELO GRABLJE for example along it has a wonderful biking-hiking down hill route, which cuts trough nature and than towards the sea to the sea town MILNA where on can choose a creek to enjoy to themselves.
DRIVE TROUGH TOSCANY The north part of the island above the towns JELSA and STARI GRAD are very green and lush and covered with vineyards. The whole region looks like Tuscany and is very beautiful.. I certainly recommend renting a scooter of convertible car and driving trough than having lunch in the fresher mountaines or villages above the vine farming town of SVIRČE..
THE CREEKS In evey island port there are people renting out small boats which can be hired with a tiny motor without a licence... Or a speed boat or a sailing boat can be hired together with a skipper. The island is rich with wonderful creeks and bays, clean seas, and sometimes bays full of deers incredibly. Taking a boat is the best way to explore beautiful bays, going for a swim, and very often in the middle of no where you will arrive at some cute hap hap-hazard restaurant at sea to replenish energies.
Love being Tourist.. Trip tips on the island Hvar- Reading on Vacation
On Vacation one reads.
Or pretends to read.
I was staying once at the Meneghello Family estate on the island Palmizana next to Hvar where a Serbian Cartoon publicist Srdan rented a villa in the garden.
He was set on seducing me. I really was not attracted to him, but enjoyed little breaks away from painting. The publicist stalked me appearing out of the bush where ever I would walk. I would see him in the restaurant having a meal and as I would walk past the restaurant walls and descend to the beach 10 meters further ,he would already be at the beach ,reclined on towel, reading a book, which he would drop as if it was hot on seeing me and pounce up to pester with chit chat.
During our encounters he would always talk about the books he was reading and proceed to sum them up. All of this books where of the same New age books about how to be a better person with titles of such as Zen of every day life, and living Yin and yang.
When he left seven days later and had hassled me out of my wits end. The Bosnian(bosnian men are famous for not liking to read) Mario who worked at the restourant's barbecue roasting fish came up to me and said: I'm so glad Srdan has left, I'm exhausted. You know he paid me 100 Euros per book, to read it at night after work, than give him a summery of the book in the morning, so that he could impress you...
In town there are a lot of hot English boys reading books on lone rocks, and lots of English girls reading books in their bikinis on the deck chairs...
HVAR Town possesses one of the most amazing Libraries in Croatia.. It is set in a old beautiful venetian town's house which is falling apart and at the door states" enter at own risk". The library has Internet and charges little for it. And 9 rooms full of books tip to toe, with overloaded shelf's. On all subjects under the sun both from old classical writers and new alike.. The library also has books in many languages including English, German, Italian ,French, Spanish's, Russian and many more and it is selling read books to raise money for its repairs. The library is also a small cultural exchange for you may met interesting people in it, be informed of cultural events and may even just come over to play chess.
I was staying once at the Meneghello Family estate on the island Palmizana next to Hvar where a Serbian Cartoon publicist Srdan rented a villa in the garden.
He was set on seducing me. I really was not attracted to him, but enjoyed little breaks away from painting. The publicist stalked me appearing out of the bush where ever I would walk. I would see him in the restaurant having a meal and as I would walk past the restaurant walls and descend to the beach 10 meters further ,he would already be at the beach ,reclined on towel, reading a book, which he would drop as if it was hot on seeing me and pounce up to pester with chit chat.
During our encounters he would always talk about the books he was reading and proceed to sum them up. All of this books where of the same New age books about how to be a better person with titles of such as Zen of every day life, and living Yin and yang.
When he left seven days later and had hassled me out of my wits end. The Bosnian(bosnian men are famous for not liking to read) Mario who worked at the restourant's barbecue roasting fish came up to me and said: I'm so glad Srdan has left, I'm exhausted. You know he paid me 100 Euros per book, to read it at night after work, than give him a summery of the book in the morning, so that he could impress you...
In town there are a lot of hot English boys reading books on lone rocks, and lots of English girls reading books in their bikinis on the deck chairs...
HVAR Town possesses one of the most amazing Libraries in Croatia.. It is set in a old beautiful venetian town's house which is falling apart and at the door states" enter at own risk". The library has Internet and charges little for it. And 9 rooms full of books tip to toe, with overloaded shelf's. On all subjects under the sun both from old classical writers and new alike.. The library also has books in many languages including English, German, Italian ,French, Spanish's, Russian and many more and it is selling read books to raise money for its repairs. The library is also a small cultural exchange for you may met interesting people in it, be informed of cultural events and may even just come over to play chess.
Love being Tourist.. Trip tips on the island Hvar- In Vino Veritas
The island of Hvar produces some of the best vine in the region.
The southern parts of the island are planted with vineyard of the grape Plavac Mali ,a small sweet red-blue grape and this produces the strongest flavoured rich red vine. The north of the island has many plantations of the Plavac, large red grape which produces lighter vine alike chianti. And there is a Hvar white named Bogdanuša.
My favourite vine is the zlatan plavac barrique produced By the PLANČIĆ Family who also have a under sea cellar in SVETA NEDJELJA small town in the southern east part of the island open for vine tasting and food.
Antoher important vine producing family is TOMIĆ and they have a vine tasting spot in the north of the island in JELSA.
However in the centre of HVar old town there is a tiny vine bar in a little street scattered with candles and chunks of wood where you may sit 6 pm onwards, enjoy the beautiful atmosphere and be advised by a man who looks like one of the three musketeers. There you may taste many of the best croatian vines by the glass and nibble at some bear pate. The street is paralael to the main square 10 meters right of the cathedral.
Another fun vine bar is the Hotel park club in the centre next ot the palace hotel, where your can clank away with your vine glass to the music of a live music programe whixh alternates form blues, jazz and bossa nova.
The southern parts of the island are planted with vineyard of the grape Plavac Mali ,a small sweet red-blue grape and this produces the strongest flavoured rich red vine. The north of the island has many plantations of the Plavac, large red grape which produces lighter vine alike chianti. And there is a Hvar white named Bogdanuša.
My favourite vine is the zlatan plavac barrique produced By the PLANČIĆ Family who also have a under sea cellar in SVETA NEDJELJA small town in the southern east part of the island open for vine tasting and food.
Antoher important vine producing family is TOMIĆ and they have a vine tasting spot in the north of the island in JELSA.
However in the centre of HVar old town there is a tiny vine bar in a little street scattered with candles and chunks of wood where you may sit 6 pm onwards, enjoy the beautiful atmosphere and be advised by a man who looks like one of the three musketeers. There you may taste many of the best croatian vines by the glass and nibble at some bear pate. The street is paralael to the main square 10 meters right of the cathedral.
Another fun vine bar is the Hotel park club in the centre next ot the palace hotel, where your can clank away with your vine glass to the music of a live music programe whixh alternates form blues, jazz and bossa nova.
Love being Tourist.. Trip tips on the island Hvar- Love to Dance
To come to Hvar and not dance is like go to Italy and not try their pizza. Prince Harry managed despite all his butch centurions and if you don't try, you simply can not get the full flavour of the island.
A DANCING SCHEDULE
The dancing begins in bikinis and swimming costumes just before sun set at the Hulla Hulla beach. You have a few coctials the dj warms up you dance in you bikini jump in the sea only to come out to dance again, and or possibly get a crush there and then.
Around 10pm after dinner and a change of outfit music will first be heard in THE KIWA BAR in a tinly little street above the port, which is where a bunch of life hungry and international kids start off.
Around midnight CARPE DIEEM the oldest of the clubs on the island stats to get going in the Riviera...
From two am onwards when CARPE DIEM Closes you can choose your end of the night to be at the converted old Church VENERANDA on the hill above town or you may take a boat and sail away to the CARPE DIEM FULL MOON beach party. Both last until day.
THan go for breakfast at the Piazza on the main square..
A DANCING SCHEDULE
The dancing begins in bikinis and swimming costumes just before sun set at the Hulla Hulla beach. You have a few coctials the dj warms up you dance in you bikini jump in the sea only to come out to dance again, and or possibly get a crush there and then.
Around 10pm after dinner and a change of outfit music will first be heard in THE KIWA BAR in a tinly little street above the port, which is where a bunch of life hungry and international kids start off.
Around midnight CARPE DIEEM the oldest of the clubs on the island stats to get going in the Riviera...
From two am onwards when CARPE DIEM Closes you can choose your end of the night to be at the converted old Church VENERANDA on the hill above town or you may take a boat and sail away to the CARPE DIEM FULL MOON beach party. Both last until day.
THan go for breakfast at the Piazza on the main square..
Love being Tourist.. Trip tips on the island Hvar- Martini Coctail
-- I would say with experience spending your very last money on a cocktail in Hvar is like an investment, because frankly you never know what will happen as a result but some thing will happen, though what exactly one must leave to the hands of fortune and horoscope.
A Great and a very hidden spot in the heart of town is the RAKIJA BAR, located on the balcony of the old theatre above the main square, which somehow is often unseen by the tourist who therefor misses its charms, local Rakijas, and a wiew of the world going by and the stars falling about.
THE FORTRESS at sun set is gives views of spectrum of colours as they hit the Pakleni archipelago and the sea giving a great background for photographs and a spot of martini or a PETAR HEKTORIVIC PROŠEK, which is the local and much tastier version of martini.
HULA HULA beach lounge bar on the other hand offers a more full service including later beach beds, a dj, demi nude muses for body watching and handsome young waiters who bring your cocktail to your beach bed and if you smile nicely will give you a massage, and well anything else you may ask for. The beach turns in to a party at sun set.
LAGANINI is a beautiful and one of my favourite lounge bars located in the beach bay PALMIZANA south of the ile ST CLEMENT. Imagine the scene, you are sitting in a olive tree upon a cushion ower looking the brilliant sea, music is playing and waiters place cocktails in your hands.. Than you jump in to the sea, throw a few strokes at the perfectly clear waters, check out other swimmers, and prowl back to your nest in the tree to read a book..
A Great and a very hidden spot in the heart of town is the RAKIJA BAR, located on the balcony of the old theatre above the main square, which somehow is often unseen by the tourist who therefor misses its charms, local Rakijas, and a wiew of the world going by and the stars falling about.
THE FORTRESS at sun set is gives views of spectrum of colours as they hit the Pakleni archipelago and the sea giving a great background for photographs and a spot of martini or a PETAR HEKTORIVIC PROŠEK, which is the local and much tastier version of martini.
HULA HULA beach lounge bar on the other hand offers a more full service including later beach beds, a dj, demi nude muses for body watching and handsome young waiters who bring your cocktail to your beach bed and if you smile nicely will give you a massage, and well anything else you may ask for. The beach turns in to a party at sun set.
LAGANINI is a beautiful and one of my favourite lounge bars located in the beach bay PALMIZANA south of the ile ST CLEMENT. Imagine the scene, you are sitting in a olive tree upon a cushion ower looking the brilliant sea, music is playing and waiters place cocktails in your hands.. Than you jump in to the sea, throw a few strokes at the perfectly clear waters, check out other swimmers, and prowl back to your nest in the tree to read a book..
Love being Tourist.. Trip tips on the island Hvar- Food
FOOD
This city being like a white sparkly jewel on the Adriatic pouting seductively ower a clean and mesmerising turquoise sea attracts all ages, nationality, and means to its seductive embrace. It has thus naturally become a fantastic gastronomic centre offering in numerous restaurants to cater to all tastes, funds, and all of the places are set on making you return.
PASAROLA has the kind of chef you end up becoming friends with simply because you can not accept a stranger giving you orgasms without even having touched you. The chef is a perfectionist.His food a play od ying and yang flavours feng shui balance of colur and tastes. Service very polite. And the vine recommendations can be trusted. The restaurant is located 20 meters right of the HVar cathedral constructed in white stone with a balcony beneath the stars.
BONACA is a relaxed terrace above the riviera with views on the sea and sun setting, with a wonderful chef whose grandfather had caught a whale. Food is wholesome, good and the atmosphere ease, though it can get packed up summer nights so dash to reserve..
LUNGO MARE is a family run restaurant located two bays left of the Rivera behind the Franciscan monastery.. The restaurant is located on the family house terace, it is not beautiful but the food is always utterly wholesome, vegetables are garden picked, the tuna steak is fresh from sea and the best I have ever had anywhere in Dalmatia and so large it can satisfy the hungriest of appetites. The chef and wife are usually about the terrace to make all guests feel part of the family.
MENEGO Is a discovery both in terms of ambient which is very quaint and romantic and also in terms of food which takes a slightly different route to most Hvar restaurants offering a tapas type of choice with many cold marinated dishes such as stuffed peppers with nuts and figs and i don't know what yum.. All the food is Delicious Is a tiny family restaurant set in stone and withing hanging vines near the Benedictine monastery on the way up to the fortress. Great for vegetarians.
BURGER BAR Hvar is probabley the only city in the world where a fast food shack overhangs the main square, and offers its customers enormous and delicious burgers, chevapi, seated at a table on a terrace overhanging the main square with wiew of the cathedral and such godliness as exterminates all bad feelings and guilt one usually feels when in taking fast food.
PIZZA Everone goes so often for a good old pizza and those in Croatia are often delicious. My favourite in Hvar town are ALVIŽ a family restoruant with a open garden and delicious pizzas and Maama mia on the sea front and riviera esp when you ask for a little pot of the pizza sauce to pour over as an extra.
ZORACE is a bay several kilometers out of town which can be reached by car or boat taxis and the ambiance set in rock, beneath the stars with its own beach and food which has been caught the night before by the owner, slated using sea slat collected on the rocks and seasoned with hand picked herbs, capers, and home made vinegar.. A beautiful spot for a glass of vine, or a plate of cheeses , or a lobster, in fact a great spread out in nature restaurant to spend a whole day trip relaxing and eating in the bay.
This city being like a white sparkly jewel on the Adriatic pouting seductively ower a clean and mesmerising turquoise sea attracts all ages, nationality, and means to its seductive embrace. It has thus naturally become a fantastic gastronomic centre offering in numerous restaurants to cater to all tastes, funds, and all of the places are set on making you return.
PASAROLA has the kind of chef you end up becoming friends with simply because you can not accept a stranger giving you orgasms without even having touched you. The chef is a perfectionist.His food a play od ying and yang flavours feng shui balance of colur and tastes. Service very polite. And the vine recommendations can be trusted. The restaurant is located 20 meters right of the HVar cathedral constructed in white stone with a balcony beneath the stars.
BONACA is a relaxed terrace above the riviera with views on the sea and sun setting, with a wonderful chef whose grandfather had caught a whale. Food is wholesome, good and the atmosphere ease, though it can get packed up summer nights so dash to reserve..
LUNGO MARE is a family run restaurant located two bays left of the Rivera behind the Franciscan monastery.. The restaurant is located on the family house terace, it is not beautiful but the food is always utterly wholesome, vegetables are garden picked, the tuna steak is fresh from sea and the best I have ever had anywhere in Dalmatia and so large it can satisfy the hungriest of appetites. The chef and wife are usually about the terrace to make all guests feel part of the family.
MENEGO Is a discovery both in terms of ambient which is very quaint and romantic and also in terms of food which takes a slightly different route to most Hvar restaurants offering a tapas type of choice with many cold marinated dishes such as stuffed peppers with nuts and figs and i don't know what yum.. All the food is Delicious Is a tiny family restaurant set in stone and withing hanging vines near the Benedictine monastery on the way up to the fortress. Great for vegetarians.
BURGER BAR Hvar is probabley the only city in the world where a fast food shack overhangs the main square, and offers its customers enormous and delicious burgers, chevapi, seated at a table on a terrace overhanging the main square with wiew of the cathedral and such godliness as exterminates all bad feelings and guilt one usually feels when in taking fast food.
PIZZA Everone goes so often for a good old pizza and those in Croatia are often delicious. My favourite in Hvar town are ALVIŽ a family restoruant with a open garden and delicious pizzas and Maama mia on the sea front and riviera esp when you ask for a little pot of the pizza sauce to pour over as an extra.
ZORACE is a bay several kilometers out of town which can be reached by car or boat taxis and the ambiance set in rock, beneath the stars with its own beach and food which has been caught the night before by the owner, slated using sea slat collected on the rocks and seasoned with hand picked herbs, capers, and home made vinegar.. A beautiful spot for a glass of vine, or a plate of cheeses , or a lobster, in fact a great spread out in nature restaurant to spend a whole day trip relaxing and eating in the bay.
Love being Tourist.. Trip tips on the island Hvar- Cofee
Almost every day someone asks me for advice as to where to eat and what to do on the island of Hvar.It is certanley one of my favourite islands of all time and all places which is how i came to live here and be a guide to its treasures. So here my dear, if you want to have the best time on the island of Hvar are tips..
COFFE IN HVAR TOWN
As the local lifestyle goes, a coffe in public is to be had several times a day,in different locations in the town following the celestial circulation of the sun or rather trying to sit where there is some god given shade.
Best tasting coffe
The PJACA bar, in the central square on the island has the best coffee and a great position for people watching, being located within the very heart of town.
PARK CLLUB, this club looks like a Cuban social club and provides whole relishings of shade within its large and air con interior where one may take their time to wake up or have a nap in its comfortable cushy seating.
THE RED BARRON This is a locals wake up and catch up bar, seated on high stools around a Palm tree and keeping an eye on the yachts, yachters cute ladies and sailor boys. The bar is located on the riviera.
THE FORTRESS town within its remparts and cstone walls offers coffe and a magnificent eagle eye wiew of town city and the islands. THe walk up to the fortres starts on the main square and past the benedictine monsters.
COFFE IN HVAR TOWN
As the local lifestyle goes, a coffe in public is to be had several times a day,in different locations in the town following the celestial circulation of the sun or rather trying to sit where there is some god given shade.
Best tasting coffe
The PJACA bar, in the central square on the island has the best coffee and a great position for people watching, being located within the very heart of town.
PARK CLLUB, this club looks like a Cuban social club and provides whole relishings of shade within its large and air con interior where one may take their time to wake up or have a nap in its comfortable cushy seating.
THE RED BARRON This is a locals wake up and catch up bar, seated on high stools around a Palm tree and keeping an eye on the yachts, yachters cute ladies and sailor boys. The bar is located on the riviera.
THE FORTRESS town within its remparts and cstone walls offers coffe and a magnificent eagle eye wiew of town city and the islands. THe walk up to the fortres starts on the main square and past the benedictine monsters.
Sunday 15 July 2012
The baby boom.
It is time to write about it despite my not being involved in the happy cloud land but as i am a observer with not much choice baby boom must be a topic of mine. One of my best friends is pregnant. Other best friends of mine are reading this and no i shall not reveal who is pregnant, and yes is definitional one of you.
I received a text message the other day which i quote" listen. Sit down. Now look, im pregnant and crave pineapple juice."
I visited the weekend festival in my birth town, and a whole bunch of girls i realized where fat, and than on better scrutiny realized where possibly pregnant and so trying not to offend them and in fear of doing so started congratulating. Affair than went on all evening as out of the wood work crawled in to the fresher night air ladies with baloned tummies and plenty of men i once refused to flirt with pushing prams. It was a little surreal. The whole population of the small town where in baby boom mode. Perhaps people truly are synchronized more than they should prefer, woman who spend a lot of time all get periods at the same time, and seems like people get babies at the same time. They all feel romantic during a certain period. And this all initiates cycles of change. Parents to be have to reconsider their lifestyle. Their parents who have been urging for grandchildren which would finally absolve them from responsibility for their children are simply relived. Whilst great grandparents get ecstatic to see their little blood empire expand in their lifetime.
So in the middle of the square before my house dozens neighbors where brandishing their offspring, or maternity fashions.
The truth is not all pregnat ladies have a glow. In fact those who carry bulldog expressions in their quoditien with pregnancy accelerate it to look like mean butch bull dogs. Yet there are pregnat ladies who alike the legend promises carry beaming faces, shiney eyes and rosey cheeks floating above the ground uplifted by the helium like inflated tummies happy as can be. Those are beautiful and i must say pass of the whole idea as not at all frightening.
Thursday 5 July 2012
Kako sačuvati ljeto u staklenci..
...Stvar je sa životom na ovim otocima južne Hrvatske gdje svatko prespava zimu poput medvjeda i provodi ljeto okruženo plodnim mladima u kupaćim kostimima, breskvama, gnjecavim sočnim crvenim smokvama , crvenim trešnjama, mesnatim marelicama, dinjama svih na ulicama koje mirišu na cvijeće, punih zelene botanike masnih gumenih biljaka i nestašnih vila.
I ti se prirodno asimiliras. I kao takav. Prvo također promjeniš boju u crvenu.Zatim sazrijes u smeđu. To je prirodni proces zazrljeljavanja plodova. Kada si smeđe boje znaći da si zreo za branje, međutim kako ćeš te protumačiti ovisi o tebi.
Kada shvatiš da unatoče vručini ovdje sada, u ovoj ljetnoj zrelosti svakako je , to je puno bolje nego blijediloo zime, te kao svaki domorodac otočanin počmeš proces sačuvanja ljeta za zimu.
Možeš zapravo sačuvati ljeto u staklenke.I ovih dana sam napravila džem dotrešnja, višnja breskve i barakokule.
Za to trebaš jedonstavno uzeti oko jedna ipo kilograma voća i jedan kg šećera. Dodajte nekoliko žlica vode i soka od cijelog limuna, a zatim pirjati i kuhati voce doke ne ispari veći dio soka. Vruzći i tekući džem, uliti u zagrijane i čiste starinskke staklenke s tim poklopcem i gumomo na poklopcu i eto uspjeli ste.
Ulovili ste miris i osjećaj ljeta u staklenku koju možete početi koristiti kada sunce ide na odmor i skrije se iza kišnih oblaka.
Mi inače ovsje trošimo besmislenu količinu vremena na moru. U moru. 5 tuševa dan ni klima uređaj ne može ohladiti i cvrčanje vruče lave u koju se ljudsko tijelo pretvara svaki put kada je potrebno prošetati tijekom dana ovdje na jugu.
More more samo sat vremena u morskoj vodi i pogled na morske hladne boje vraća tijelo i um u kontrolirajući i pristojan ljudskoi oblik.Boje mora u tim su trenucima najsvjetliji dragulji. Okusiti sol na usnama odmah šalje poruku mozgu da će sve biti ok, da ćemo se ohladiiti i da je u stvari život božanski.
Kako bi sačuvali okus mora za zimu. Skupi morsku sol sa stijena. Uzmite žlicu i stružite grubu morsku soli, solni cvijet sa stijena uz more i staviti u staklenku.
Ili između plivanja naberi kapara.Kapare sade galebovi koji poput ljudi da vole iz sentimentalnih razloga . Kapar je zapravo pupoljak cvijeta kapara. Biljka raste u obliku dlakavog grma na stijenama i na zidovima uz more, ima ružičasto bijele dlakave i izvrsno mirisne cvjetove.
Za pripremu Kapara. Naberite cvjetne pupoljke. Ubacite ih u staklenku ispunjenu morskom vodom na dva tjedna kako bi sol ušla u njih. Zatim isperite pupoljke i ponovno punite staklenku s pola vode i pola kvasine od vina, i naravno kapara .
Ostavite nekoliko tjedana da bi biti spremni za jesti ili pak ostaviti do zime i grickati prisječajući se.. Eto stigli ste na po puta do konzerviranja ljeta u staklenke da bude spremno za zimske mjesece. Sada se ugurajhte u kupaći kostim i pop off na plažu opet. Zgrabi koktel. Arrivederci.
I ti se prirodno asimiliras. I kao takav. Prvo također promjeniš boju u crvenu.Zatim sazrijes u smeđu. To je prirodni proces zazrljeljavanja plodova. Kada si smeđe boje znaći da si zreo za branje, međutim kako ćeš te protumačiti ovisi o tebi.
Kada shvatiš da unatoče vručini ovdje sada, u ovoj ljetnoj zrelosti svakako je , to je puno bolje nego blijediloo zime, te kao svaki domorodac otočanin počmeš proces sačuvanja ljeta za zimu.
Možeš zapravo sačuvati ljeto u staklenke.I ovih dana sam napravila džem dotrešnja, višnja breskve i barakokule.
Za to trebaš jedonstavno uzeti oko jedna ipo kilograma voća i jedan kg šećera. Dodajte nekoliko žlica vode i soka od cijelog limuna, a zatim pirjati i kuhati voce doke ne ispari veći dio soka. Vruzći i tekući džem, uliti u zagrijane i čiste starinskke staklenke s tim poklopcem i gumomo na poklopcu i eto uspjeli ste.
Ulovili ste miris i osjećaj ljeta u staklenku koju možete početi koristiti kada sunce ide na odmor i skrije se iza kišnih oblaka.
Mi inače ovsje trošimo besmislenu količinu vremena na moru. U moru. 5 tuševa dan ni klima uređaj ne može ohladiti i cvrčanje vruče lave u koju se ljudsko tijelo pretvara svaki put kada je potrebno prošetati tijekom dana ovdje na jugu.
More more samo sat vremena u morskoj vodi i pogled na morske hladne boje vraća tijelo i um u kontrolirajući i pristojan ljudskoi oblik.Boje mora u tim su trenucima najsvjetliji dragulji. Okusiti sol na usnama odmah šalje poruku mozgu da će sve biti ok, da ćemo se ohladiiti i da je u stvari život božanski.
Kako bi sačuvali okus mora za zimu. Skupi morsku sol sa stijena. Uzmite žlicu i stružite grubu morsku soli, solni cvijet sa stijena uz more i staviti u staklenku.
Ili između plivanja naberi kapara.Kapare sade galebovi koji poput ljudi da vole iz sentimentalnih razloga . Kapar je zapravo pupoljak cvijeta kapara. Biljka raste u obliku dlakavog grma na stijenama i na zidovima uz more, ima ružičasto bijele dlakave i izvrsno mirisne cvjetove.
Za pripremu Kapara. Naberite cvjetne pupoljke. Ubacite ih u staklenku ispunjenu morskom vodom na dva tjedna kako bi sol ušla u njih. Zatim isperite pupoljke i ponovno punite staklenku s pola vode i pola kvasine od vina, i naravno kapara .
Ostavite nekoliko tjedana da bi biti spremni za jesti ili pak ostaviti do zime i grickati prisječajući se.. Eto stigli ste na po puta do konzerviranja ljeta u staklenke da bude spremno za zimske mjesece. Sada se ugurajhte u kupaći kostim i pop off na plažu opet. Zgrabi koktel. Arrivederci.
swinging at sea...
Looking back on the calendar of all the mystic and magical moments of the year I noted that it was on the very eve of midsummer that we stated our sailing trip on the island of Vis.
A part of our crew was lost due to intoxication and Wave crest the third day of the cruise and the smaller but still merry band continued our affair across the south Adriatic.
The is an island called Bisevo at the south of Vis. Biševo is a proud owner of the most astounding azure cave formed by sun entering a black cave trough a hole beneath sea water and being filtered trough the water.
A Guard of the earthen temple bobs like a duck attached to a line in front of the cave entrance to prevent anyone swimming into the cave and to charge a fee. I used the mermaid stare .We swam in. Cave was a myriad of electric hues of blue, green , turquoise and black, and obviously inhabited by real mermaids and sea gods of old as well as dragons. It was the most magnificent experience. Swimming in pure liquid dream . Swam out trough hole in sea bottom miles beneath sea surface whiteout air almost drowning emerging re borne.
The captain than sailed us across many hours of blue north to the bay of Palmizana where i once lived like Robinson Crusoe for months on end painting. Had a mochito sitting upon a cushion upon an olive tree , i watching sun set, captain watching boat, northerner prowling new yorker girls on their hens night vacation .
The popular jet set bay was stacked with yachts and a mixture of people wanting to be seen.
The most eager to be seen was a German grandma who let loose her hanggy belly, frontal and back bottoms, back and chins and thus paraded on sailing boat nude so,and as precise as a compass turned her bottom as an invitation towards each dingy who neared her boats anchor- whilst a thin husband who she must have drained of life, stood by her side, in swim suit and bad humour, obviously having been persuaded for a game of swap and play as she tried to draw every drunk English tourist falling out of dingy into her swinger lure.
The whole scene was carefully monitored by a like wise endowed in blubber German grandpa on the other side of our boat, who too was the only one naked among his crew of pensioners and whose ratty phallic bobbed up and down in synchrony to naked grandmas performance.
There is no proper rule as to what may or may not do on a boat you see, and despite children swimming in between these boats no one felt obligation to be decent. In fact as northerner went in hunt of further mohitos and captain and i where left alone on deck i noticed a couple on the next door boat,decent boat, young couple, girl topless, watching us, kissing , still watching us, kissing an invitation. Too much. Too many raw naked red swingers at sea.
A part of our crew was lost due to intoxication and Wave crest the third day of the cruise and the smaller but still merry band continued our affair across the south Adriatic.
The is an island called Bisevo at the south of Vis. Biševo is a proud owner of the most astounding azure cave formed by sun entering a black cave trough a hole beneath sea water and being filtered trough the water.
A Guard of the earthen temple bobs like a duck attached to a line in front of the cave entrance to prevent anyone swimming into the cave and to charge a fee. I used the mermaid stare .We swam in. Cave was a myriad of electric hues of blue, green , turquoise and black, and obviously inhabited by real mermaids and sea gods of old as well as dragons. It was the most magnificent experience. Swimming in pure liquid dream . Swam out trough hole in sea bottom miles beneath sea surface whiteout air almost drowning emerging re borne.
The captain than sailed us across many hours of blue north to the bay of Palmizana where i once lived like Robinson Crusoe for months on end painting. Had a mochito sitting upon a cushion upon an olive tree , i watching sun set, captain watching boat, northerner prowling new yorker girls on their hens night vacation .
The popular jet set bay was stacked with yachts and a mixture of people wanting to be seen.
The most eager to be seen was a German grandma who let loose her hanggy belly, frontal and back bottoms, back and chins and thus paraded on sailing boat nude so,and as precise as a compass turned her bottom as an invitation towards each dingy who neared her boats anchor- whilst a thin husband who she must have drained of life, stood by her side, in swim suit and bad humour, obviously having been persuaded for a game of swap and play as she tried to draw every drunk English tourist falling out of dingy into her swinger lure.
The whole scene was carefully monitored by a like wise endowed in blubber German grandpa on the other side of our boat, who too was the only one naked among his crew of pensioners and whose ratty phallic bobbed up and down in synchrony to naked grandmas performance.
There is no proper rule as to what may or may not do on a boat you see, and despite children swimming in between these boats no one felt obligation to be decent. In fact as northerner went in hunt of further mohitos and captain and i where left alone on deck i noticed a couple on the next door boat,decent boat, young couple, girl topless, watching us, kissing , still watching us, kissing an invitation. Too much. Too many raw naked red swingers at sea.
How to preserve summer into a jar...
The thing is with living on these southern Croatia islands where everyone sleeps the winters like bears and spends summer surrounded by fertile young people in swimsuits, peaches, squishy red figs, red juice cherries, red melons, apricots , all species of street scenting flowers, green botanic fat rubber plants and mischievous faeries.
You do tend to assimilate. And as such. Firstly you also turn red. Than you turn brown. Its the natural process of many a ripe fruit. When brown you are ripe, for picking, however you may choose to interpret that.
Than you realise however hot it is here now in this ripe state, it is much better than the pale of winter, and you alike a true islander native begin the process of preserving the summer for the winter. You preserve summer into jars.
I have now made black cherry jam, sour cherry jam, peach jam, and apricot and peach jam.
To make jam simply take about 3 pounds of fruits and 2 pounds of sugar. add a few spoons of water and a juice of a lemon and than simmer until the fruits cook trough and evaporate most of the juice. Hot and liquid jam, pour into hot and clean old fashioned jars with those lids and the rubber seal thingy and there you go. You have your very own taste, smell and feel of summer to use when the sun goes for a break and gets hidden behind rain clouds.
We are spending insensible amount of time at sea. In the sea. 5 showers a day nor air conditioning can cool the sizzling and effervescing lava into which the human body turns to each time it takes a walk during a day here in the South. The sea the sea only an hour in sea water and looking at cool sea colours sets the body and mind into a controllable decent human shape.
The colours of the sea are the brightest jewels. Tasting the salt on the lips is immediate message to brain that all will be ok, that we shall cool down that in fact life is Divine.
To preserve the taste of the sea for the winter. Coollect sea salt of rocks. Take a spoon and scrape rough sea salt -sea salt flower of rocks next to the sea and put in to jar. Or in between swims collect capers.
The caper is planted by the sea-gulls who like the human adores it for the same sentimental reasons. The caper is actually the bud of the honey suckle flower. The plant grows in form of hairy leafy bush off rocks and walls at sea front, has pink white hairy splendidly scented blossoms.
To prepare the caper. Pick flower buds. Pop into a jar filled with sea water for two weeks to salt adequate. Than rinse the buds and refill jar with half water half red vine vinegar, and of course the caper pods. Leave a couple weeks for it to be ready to eat. Or leave til winter and nibble reminiscently.
See. There you are half way there summer is in jars and ready for the winter month. That done. You squeeze into your bikini and pop off to the beach again. Grab a coctail.
To-doo-loo. --
Than you realise however hot it is here now in this ripe state, it is much better than the pale of winter, and you alike a true islander native begin the process of preserving the summer for the winter. You preserve summer into jars.
I have now made black cherry jam, sour cherry jam, peach jam, and apricot and peach jam.
To make jam simply take about 3 pounds of fruits and 2 pounds of sugar. add a few spoons of water and a juice of a lemon and than simmer until the fruits cook trough and evaporate most of the juice. Hot and liquid jam, pour into hot and clean old fashioned jars with those lids and the rubber seal thingy and there you go. You have your very own taste, smell and feel of summer to use when the sun goes for a break and gets hidden behind rain clouds.
We are spending insensible amount of time at sea. In the sea. 5 showers a day nor air conditioning can cool the sizzling and effervescing lava into which the human body turns to each time it takes a walk during a day here in the South. The sea the sea only an hour in sea water and looking at cool sea colours sets the body and mind into a controllable decent human shape.
The colours of the sea are the brightest jewels. Tasting the salt on the lips is immediate message to brain that all will be ok, that we shall cool down that in fact life is Divine.
To preserve the taste of the sea for the winter. Coollect sea salt of rocks. Take a spoon and scrape rough sea salt -sea salt flower of rocks next to the sea and put in to jar. Or in between swims collect capers.
The caper is planted by the sea-gulls who like the human adores it for the same sentimental reasons. The caper is actually the bud of the honey suckle flower. The plant grows in form of hairy leafy bush off rocks and walls at sea front, has pink white hairy splendidly scented blossoms.
To prepare the caper. Pick flower buds. Pop into a jar filled with sea water for two weeks to salt adequate. Than rinse the buds and refill jar with half water half red vine vinegar, and of course the caper pods. Leave a couple weeks for it to be ready to eat. Or leave til winter and nibble reminiscently.
See. There you are half way there summer is in jars and ready for the winter month. That done. You squeeze into your bikini and pop off to the beach again. Grab a coctail.
To-doo-loo. --
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