A Korcula Island beach day

19.8.15

Soline harbour and beach is 800 m from where we’re staying so as it was sunny we decided on a beach day.
The walk was straight along the main road and a short road downwards at the end.

When we were brought to the apartment it felt like we we were so far away from the town but actually we’ve warmed to this area and not feeling as isolated.
There’s just a few houses, the strange supermarket, a restaurant, and we’ve found one cafe bar and another that has a small pizza menu and amazing cakes.

The beach was lovely, and the first time we’ve seen sand.

Although there was a bit of cloud it was lovely and warm and lots of people in the sea.
Lots of tiny toddlers there but all happily playing rather than being bored on concrete. It was really pleasant to watch them playing.

I sat and continued with Kane and Abel and later John went off for a run. Have made it to over 50% read and really enjoying it.
He hadn’t been gone long when it got really cloudy and people started to pack up and leave.
Next was a big flash of lightening and thunder.
I wasn’t overly worried as there was a small covered cafe just behind me. Luckily John decided to make his way back after 5 km.
We decided to leave and made it to a small cafe we’d spotted on the way through the village just as it started spitting.
It was interesting seeing village prices. our lunch of pizzas and tiramisu and a beer was just over £5!

As we left the cafe it started to rain hard.
We got pretty wet and I used my towel as a headscarf.
We spent the rest of the afternoon at the apartment and went out for a walk early evening when it finally stopped raining.
When John went for his run he found a shortcut to Korcula old town so we followed that route and it was surprising to find it was only about 40 minutes walk away.
We had dinner overlooking the sea.

I had seafood spaghetti and John had seafood risotto. Had to send both back as not very hot but once heated was delicious.
We gained a little cat friend too who loved the beads on my bag.

John had a fruity cheesecake ice cream, I had hazelnut (wouldn’t have it again).
The walked back was a bit dark in parts and a little bit nerve wracking, although we were saying that we’ve felt very safe during this holiday, even walking through some of the rougher areas in Sarajevo and Mostar.

We are really hoping the weather will be kind tomorrow as we want to do the semi submarine which goes from the old town and also go to Lumbarda, a small beach town about 5km from where we’re staying.

Observations :-

Children will play happily for hours with a bit of water and sand

The weather changes very quickly (the cafe lady told us it was a terrible summer last year with loads of rain so we’ve been very lucky)

Most of the men wear speedos here

If you want to complain in a restaurant almost every menu tells you to fill in a book at the bar

Cars stop at zebra crossings