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Breakfast milk and homemade yogurt options. The spelt milk led Scott to observe, “No crying over spelt milk!”
We woke up at the Adriana Hotel to another day of picture-perfect weather and stumbled downstairs to one of the classiest and most complete breakfasts we had ever seen—6 kinds of granola, 6 different milks, fruit smoothies, etc. Mike promised us a “full day” and the “BEST DAY EVER!”, which was intriguing but very unspecific and a bit hard to interpret.
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The “Father of Croatian Literature”, Petar Hektorovic, built a state-of-the-art home over 40 years in the early 16th Century. Here’s the central courtyard featuring a fish pond.
We transferred back to Stari Grad ferry dock and stopped to see the home of 16th C. Croatian poet Petar Hekorovic before beginning a loop that climbed over the interior of the island through small towns until we came to a long one-way tunnel. We loaded the bikes onto our vans and traversed the tunnel (cars allowed only!), remounted our bikes, and began a steep descent toward the Adriatic. A coastal road perched along rock cliffs and followed the sea, and we wound in and out, up and down, until we came to a small winery town and stopped for lunch and a swim. Then we returned back through the tunnel and completed a loop by descending back to the sea and winding along the shore through a series of small towns. It was a stunning and idyllic day. (35 km, 400 m)
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Petar’s Latin inscription over the first known toilet in Croatia, and maybe Europe. Deedee translated it as, “If you think you’re hot stuff, remember you’re full of shit!”
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Thank goodness for the one-lane tunnel to the other side of the island. It saved us from a long steep climb.
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We puzzled over this sign at the tunnel entrance–maybe that’s why our guides deemed it too dangerous to ride bikes through.
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Passing boaters watched Pat swim, then enthusiastically waved. “That’s the first time I’ve been a tourist attraction!” he exclaimed.
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We hustled back through the tunnel to the other side of island in time for gelato in the town of Jelsa…
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…where Josko struggles to keep from getting thrown off the Bridge of Sighs (sorry, my photo doesn’t capture that it’s a bridge!)
Love the photos and commentary. What a great trip!
Note: No way to comment on Betsy’s page it appears she wrote. Not sure why. Tell her it was great anyway.