One of the most unique culinary traditions in Croatia is probably the tradition of eating dormice ( lat. Glis Glis). It is an ancient tradition as dormice were very popular appetizer with Roman emperors. The tradition in Europe is almost completely lost except in Slovenia and Croatia. In Croatia, dormouse (or puh in Croatian) is…
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Gnalic Shipwreck Exhibition at Biograd City Museum
This year’s Night at the Museum we spent at home as it was too cold for a baby to go out. So, it is a perfect opportunity to present one of Croatia’s most exclusive museum collections located in Biograd’s own City Museum. The shipwreck of Gnalic and it’s find was a major news back in…
Hiking to the bottom of Blue Lake of Imotski
The Blue Lake (Modro jezero) has been dry for over three months now and no one even remembers when was the last time the drought was so serious… I had a post on Modro jezero a while back so I won’t go into too many details. Just a few basics: – the depth of the…
Christmas in Dalmatia
As the sun was slowly falling behind Pasman Island, on a day before the Christmas Eve, I took my son and went squid fishing. The evening was beautiful and scents of cold December night were already upon us. The seascape of my childhood and my ancestors, had that ghostly, unreal appearance. The sea was calm…
Winter hiking in Dalmatia – (archaeology hike)
Sunny winter days are great for getting outside and enjoying nature and various historic sites. Basically, I am not interested in beautiful nature if there are no ruins. I love all sorts of historic sites and, luckily, there are more than plenty of them around where I live and many of them that I am…
Kudin most on Krupa
This is the second time I am writing about this place that was first described a while back on another post on Kudin most but this visit was more special… In the summer heat, while everyone is going to the sea for cooling off, I went to meet my friend and his small group on…
Prvic Luka and the iconic “Tijat” boat ride
I have been invited by my friends Gabe and Kristi Frlekin to visit them in Prvic Luka on the island of Prvic. Gabe’s father was from Prvic Luka so, when he first visited, he fell in love with the place and kept coming ever since. Prvic Luka is a typical Dalmatian village still preserving it’s…
Harley Days Croatia – Biograd 2011
It is over now. Crazy weekend is behind us… The weekend when our small town turned into Sturgis hosting the biggest Harley Davidson Rally in Europe in 2011 – The 20th H.O.G. Rally! Biograd is small – 5000 inhabitants – and we hosted a crowd of about 10 000 bikers from all over! And, apparently,…
Outer Islands of Dalmatia: Jabuka, Svetac and Brusnik
I have been to numerous islands, hidden fortresses, unknown caves, crazy places… But these islands: Jabuka, Svetac and Brusnik I wanted to visit ever since I was a kid! Jabuka – a volcanic rock in the middle of the Adriatic. Svetac – the stronghold of Illyrian queen Teuta and Brusnik, another volcanic island just like…
Frescoes of Beram
Still getting through all the pictures of Istria! It will take at least 3-4 more blog posts to get all that beauty in writing… Next stop was tiny Beram with one of the most interesting late Gothic frescoes in Croatia! A place I always wanted to visit because of several amazing images… The frescoes are…
Spring in Dalmatia
The spring is finally here! The weather was gorgeous and with unusually high temperatures in mid 20s, it was impossible to stay at home. So, I took two friends and left for the hills. First stop: ruins of Assseria near Benkovac. I wrote about this site a while back at Asseria and I visit often…
Petting Zoo – Zaton obrovački
In Dalmatia, people usually invest in real estate: cheap apartments and houses. And then complaint how business is slow and they how they don’t make enough money… Same with locals and with the ones from inner Croatia who build here. They both have in common poor sense of business, greed and usually very poor taste…
Secrets, mysteries, megaliths….
Today is the second birthday of Secret Dalmatia blog and we will celebrate it by posting a very exclusive information! (It is good idea to play that X files theme while reading this…) As I am passionate amateur historian and amateur archaeologist, I spend a lot of time hiking and exploring the Dalmatian islands and…
Levrnaka Island – Kornati National Park
There are places that are simply asking for more time to enjoy them properly… One of those places in Croatia are definitely Kornati Islands group and, among them, Levrnaka Island is one of the most fascinating islands. I was sailing these islands with our boat for 10 years every two day in the summer but…
Otres – Winter hiking in Dalmatia
I am simply drawn to this place… Ostrovica. With all the stories and the natural beauty, it is a very mystical area. It was a famous medieval Croatian fortress that fell in the hands of Turks by treason back in 1523. Re-captured by the Venetians in late 17th century, Ostrovica fortress was leveled to prevent…