Post by OnlyMark on May 2, 2023 21:43:57 GMT 2
We’d decided to have a short relaxing break for the May bank holiday in Croatia. Nice that we can reach the coast in just a few hours. For example, Dubrovnik is four hours away and this time we weren’t even going as far as that.
There is a small coastal area in Bosnia at a town called Neum which is the only access to the sea. It came from some agreement between ruling powers in the middle of the 19th Century (as far as I remember).
This made life difficult for anyone wanting to travel north from Dubrovnik along the coast because they had to enter a different country for a short while (about 8km/5 miles) before returning to Croatia.
But after many years of debate and money finding, a bridge was built which connected a large Croatian peninsula back to the mainland.
So now, driving north, you can travel onto the peninsula, go along it bypassing Neum and Bosnia and take the bridge back to the mainland. We took the bridge route onto the peninsula where we stayed for a few days.
The weather wasn’t very promising after the first day so we decided to take a short ferry to an island proper to do a bit of sightseeing before the rain came. Fortunately, and as happens quite often, the forecast wasn’t accurate.
Our main aim that day was to have a wander round an old town called Korcula. The island has the same name.
I took a few photos as we wandered but nothing much. It’s a pleasant walk in and out, up and down but a quite typical town from the Middle Ages.
First a 20min journey on a ferry -
Parked up outside town and meandered -
We then just went to a few little villages on the coast on the island to further stretch our legs and do nothing much but have lunch and so on -
Took the ferry back to the peninsula and called it a day. Croatia has more islands than you can shake a stick at and subsequently, many ferries as well. Most are quite short journeys and many only allow foot passengers. This one, 20 minutes or so, cost 3 Euro per person and 9 Euros for the car. So easily affordable.
“The Croatian archipelago lies along the eastern coast of the Adriatic Sea and has 1 244 natural formations, of which 78 are islands, 524 are islets, 642 are cliffs and reefs. 49 of the islands are permanently inhabited, all of which are located relatively close to the shore.”
The next day we went for a proper walk.
There is a small coastal area in Bosnia at a town called Neum which is the only access to the sea. It came from some agreement between ruling powers in the middle of the 19th Century (as far as I remember).
This made life difficult for anyone wanting to travel north from Dubrovnik along the coast because they had to enter a different country for a short while (about 8km/5 miles) before returning to Croatia.
But after many years of debate and money finding, a bridge was built which connected a large Croatian peninsula back to the mainland.
So now, driving north, you can travel onto the peninsula, go along it bypassing Neum and Bosnia and take the bridge back to the mainland. We took the bridge route onto the peninsula where we stayed for a few days.
The weather wasn’t very promising after the first day so we decided to take a short ferry to an island proper to do a bit of sightseeing before the rain came. Fortunately, and as happens quite often, the forecast wasn’t accurate.
Our main aim that day was to have a wander round an old town called Korcula. The island has the same name.
I took a few photos as we wandered but nothing much. It’s a pleasant walk in and out, up and down but a quite typical town from the Middle Ages.
First a 20min journey on a ferry -
Parked up outside town and meandered -
We then just went to a few little villages on the coast on the island to further stretch our legs and do nothing much but have lunch and so on -
Took the ferry back to the peninsula and called it a day. Croatia has more islands than you can shake a stick at and subsequently, many ferries as well. Most are quite short journeys and many only allow foot passengers. This one, 20 minutes or so, cost 3 Euro per person and 9 Euros for the car. So easily affordable.
“The Croatian archipelago lies along the eastern coast of the Adriatic Sea and has 1 244 natural formations, of which 78 are islands, 524 are islets, 642 are cliffs and reefs. 49 of the islands are permanently inhabited, all of which are located relatively close to the shore.”
The next day we went for a proper walk.