Thanks to the encouragement of our AirBnB host “mom” in Korčula, Grant found some chivalry and ducked out early to grab a breakfast to be enjoyed on the rooftop patio over looking the town.
When we told “mom” later, she remarked “Ah, Korčula makes him a good boy, see?!”.
After breakfast, we found some rental bikes and set off in search of tiny coves with beaches far from the main hotspots.
The way was promised to be basically flat, it was definitely not. We huffed and puffed our way over hills, Grant surviving better than Jess (could it have been revenge for the Krka force march from earlier in the week?!). We cycled for about an hour, and only ran into forks in the road where we needed local help twice – an amazing feat, as yet again, signage was poor to non-existent.
We ended up having to hike the last 30 meters to reach our destination, the beach of Vaja. While there was a small rocky beach, we opted to stay on the seawall just beside the beach and it was lucky we did.
Carefully making your way down a slippery slope is hard when you have that view waiting!
While we first had the whole cove to ourselves, 30 minutes into our relaxation we were joined by a middle aged couple, who immediately headed to the beach and then… stripped down to their birthday suits and dive on. 20 minutes later… two more birthdays suits. Another 20 minutes…. two more birthday suits!
The nudist beach in question, pre-nudists…
We are not 100% certain, but we are pretty positive that we accidentally stumbled onto a nudie beach without anyone giving us any warning.
Eventually we realized we couldn’t avoid the naked scene anymore and so we……
…headed back into town for a tasty pizza 🙂
Post-pizza plotting of our course, since we had wifi!
Then it was back to the trail of tears (at least for Jess) as we peddled (wheezed) back to Korcula town. We picked a nice café for a fortifying beverage as both our legs and derrières were in of some serious soothing.
Then it was a ferry ride to island #2: Hvar! We arrived, checked in, and realizing it was already 9:07pm, made a beeline to dinner. Jess finally got her mussel fix and the ‘Adventure Pizza’ that combined pesto, the local prosciutto (pršut), and sliced pears. In one word, delicious.
Goodnight, Hvar.
-J & G
Lots of fun things to climb, lots of beautiful things to see and great food! I am beginning to dispair of you ever returning as in that old song “did he ever return, no he never returned and his fate is still unlearned …..