Omis was once home to corsairs, who used to launch raids from this now sleepy little town. We visited the remnants of the pirates' fort up on the hillside above the town. It was a hot climb up to the fort and at times the pathway was treacherous - Croatia certainly has a different health and safety code from the one at home! The views from the top were worth the sweat soaked brow and there was also the promise of an ice-cream at the bottom of the hill to look ...

"The Bibe" was a big, red and white hulk of a boat which was to carry us to Korcula for a day trip. Sleek and streamlined it was not, but it had two decks of seating, an onboard bar, and live music (although the music we could have probably done without!). The vessel departed at 8am - engines juddering into life and settling into a teeth jarring throb as we moved away from the pier. In the early morning haze Baska Voda looked quite tranquil without beaches pac...

It was an early start on Tuesday, as Dale and I left Crikveniza shortly after sunrise on our way to pick up our friends Beks and Tim, who were flying into Split that morning. I programmed Tomtom with our destination and we followed the directions south along the traffic-less winding coastal road. We knew that the quickest way to Split was to travel down the coast to Senj and then cut inland to meet up with the A1 motorway. But Tomtom had other ideas... After w...

It was a scorching hot day that we ventured to Split for a day trip. Around an hours drive away from Baska Voda, Split is another of Croatia's coastal towns that was once Venetian and, years before that, Roman. It is also one of Croatia's larger cities, so driving into it was a bit of a mission. But the combined navigational prowess of Tomtom, Tim and Beks meant we made it to the waterfront without incident, and we even managed to find a carpark without too mu...

"Baska Voda, Number 1 Municipality in Croatia" read the sign as we entered Baska Voda, descending down the steep road leading to the built up waterfront area. Promising, we thought. Turns out that this small Croatian place we'd never heard of (until I was booking accommodation on the Internet) is a major tourist destination. The beaches were crammed with bodies as we drove by looking for our rental apartment. We searched for a carpark along the packed waterfr...