Wednesday, 8 August 2012
Trip tips, River.
lush gold green liquid freshness of river cetina is as perfect as lots of ice in a coca cola. Every time i go i am re generated. The eyes fill with mryards of green shades of jungle. The rafting trough a wild amazon type of river with canyons, snakes, white water and very smooth mythological water life . Cetinas and rafting on Cetina is certanley the most fun and beautiful thing i can recommend to any one staying in HVar, BRac, Split, Makarska. ANd if you taker a bunch of people you know to go rafting with you it becomes all the better and social. Just do it. After rafting lunch in the gardens of Radmans mills.. Frogs, fish on the menu, home fire baked bread.. And to top if off i had a dragon fly sit eating lunch on my finger for 20 minutes today..
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.
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