Hvar, Croatia
9:30 am - Leisurely wake-up at sobe (private rooms rented by empty-nest Croatian women during the tourist season)
10:00 am - Depart for town center, store bags, purchase snacks for picnic, and rent scooters.
11:00 am - Scooter on windy roads out of town, up the mountain, along the cliffside perched over the sea, past the cool ocean breezes, through the chilly tunnel, beyond small towns, cars passing by, blazing along straightaways, finally arriving halfway across the island at Jelsa.
12:30 am - Cappuccino at a local cafe. Picnic of bread, cheese, prosciutto, nutella and bananas. Lounge at shady pebble beach. Swim in the sheltered bay, practicing underwater flips. More lounging. Listen to Ipod. Shift into the sunlight.
2:30 pm - Return by scooter to Hvar town, gliding faster with growing comfort, thinking into turns, motion almost as real as a video game, Cassady, wind-watered eyes and ocean breezes, gas station refuel then return.
5:00 pm - Retrieve luggage and proceed to bus station. Endure 20 inexplicably torturous minutes waiting in jumbled crowd to board one bus (essential to catch ferry to next destination) as the driver slowly sells each ticket and the sun bears down and people are cutting in line and there is hardly enough space on the bus though finally we make it on standing in the crowded aisle.
6:00 pm - Board ferry to Split. Take seats on shady benches. Journalling, reading, music, and watching the islands pass by.
8:30 pm - Arrive Split, bargain on price for a sobe for the night, then accept and follow middle-aged woman to her apartment.
8:45 pm - Drop off bags, shower, decompress, then head out for dinner
9:15 pm - Dinner at Black Cat Bistro. Wonderful change of pace from relentlessly Italian options of pizza, pasta, seafood available elsewhere in Dalmatia - balsamic curry pork chop with grilled vegetables and delicious wine. A fortunate discovery though there is little doubt it will show up in the next edition of Lonely Planet Croatia.
11:00 pm - Wander the labyrinthine streets of Split's Old Town the former retirement palace of Roman emperor Diocletian. Pockets of bustling nightlife are connected by the impossibly narrow and quiet alleyways that pass for streets.
12:30 am - Return to sobe and retire for the evening.
this is the kind of detailed account your readers have been waiting for.so its one day detailed and 89 left to be accounted for.looking forward to the remainder of your travels but given the gap between entrys figure it might be awhile.
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