In the past few years, the offer of our national souvenirs has taken a huge step forward! Wines, traditional alcoholic drinks and liquors, dry fig spreads and even chocolates are available in all better souvenir stores. However, the prices are sometime really high and preventing even better sales. One of the better stores in terms…
Month: February 2010
Vis Island – best video online!
I have just found out about this great video my friends from Navigator got together for promoting the island of Vis and their services. It shows everything there is to see on Vis and captures the magic fairly good although the best way to see Vis is to actually go there! Connect to us on…
Korta Katarina wines in Zadar – www.culinary-croatia.com
Last Friday, my friend Marko Pavlak of Korta Katarina, invited me for a presentation of Korta Katarina wines at Falkensteiner hotels in Borik. Since I am a big fan of the wines of Korta Katarina, it was simply a must visiting them so close to home! The presentation was nowhere near the exclusive event it…
Best restaurants of Croatia – Kapetanova kuća, Ston Mali
Every time I go to Dubrovnik, or even on a longish trip from Split, I try to stop at “Kapetanova kuća” restaurant for a meal. Famous for oysters and sea food, this restaurant is one of the best known “temples” of south Dalmatian cuisine! Despite some great Dubrovnik restaurants, Ston is still a place of…
Secret Dalmatia Blog – Year one
As the first 365 days are behind us, just a bit on stats: Blog Stats Summary Total views: 18,401 (over 3000 per month now!) Busiest day: 170 — Tuesday, September 22, 2009 Posts: 132 Comments: 136 Categories: 20 Tags: 57 One year ago, this blog was started as a sort of a support for my…
Hiking in Croatia – Kudin Most on Krupa river
This winter seems like it is not going to end any time soon and I already feel trapped at home for way too long. Luckily, we don’t have snow. Yet. Going through old photos is fun and planning visiting some beautiful places makes me even more nervous 🙂 One of Croatia’s prettiest rivers is probably…
Classic guidebooks on Croatia
Nearly all good and relevant publishers have guidebooks on Croatia and nearly all of them are written by foreigners who come here, spend some time and then return occasionally to update the books. And that is how the guide book publishing works, I guess… But prior to these, new guide books, Croatia has been covered…
Vrše – traditional fishing in Croatia
Starting January 1st, several traditional methods of fishing are banned on the coast of Croatia. Parangal (trawl line in English) and vrša (traps), among several others, are no longer allowed. Coming from a family that lived on a small island for centuries, I consider this to be an attack on our heritage and tradition. Especially…