Wednesday April 7, 2010

Since we have arrived on the island of Hvar we have been exploring the option of taking a ferry back from the town of Drvenik which is only a 30 minute ferry ride but 1 1/2 hour car drive to get there. We all finally decide it will be worth the time to see other parts of the island of Hvar. The ferry has a pretty tight schedule and can only capacitate 30 cars so we want to be early not late. We head out of Hvar town, past Stari Grad and soon we are out of the road that is most traveled. The next 60 km took over 1 and 1/2 hours. There were times when Bob was driving that only one car could be on the road 2 cars would result in someone going off the cliff as there were only 2 wooden guard rails the entire trip. There are little villages scattered along the way and it looked like there means of income was olives as there were olive orchards along the entire trip. The above picture is Drvenik a post card town with fishing as there main activity and of course the ferry. It was always good entertainment watching Bob and Greg drive the car onto the ferry. We have manged to be first in line on both excursions across the water the trip is uneventful and we start our drive to Dubrovnik.

We arrived at our new apt. where we will spend the next 3 nights. The place is very nice 2 bedrooms, kitchen, 2 baths and a view that is by far the best we have seen from a room. The views are from every room, and we are located 100 meters up and it makes my fear of heights come into play every time I go on the deck. We fire up the GPS and find our way to the supermarket to buy food for the next few days, breakfast, lunch and dinner. The meal of baked chicken breast, pasta, tomatoes, brussel sprouts and fine wine was prepared and enjoyed by everyone.