The Seaside

We arrived yesterday on the island of Krk for our real seaside vacation.  We've been excited about this mini-trip since we got to Ljubljana ("How many days until we go to the beach, Mommy?"), but compared to Slovenes, we are amateurs at this…everyone gave us pitied looks when they heard we’ll only be here for four days.  Apparently, you need at least two weeks for it to count.

In any event, we decided to return to the town of Vrbnik, where we came two summers ago.  For us, it’s the perfect place for a beach vacation, as there is literally nothing to do other than go to the beach.  And amazingly, given as nice as it is here, there are literally no tourist shops (i.e., no place to buy “Vrbnik Drinking Team” t-shirts), which is very different from other places we’ve been.

Instead of staying inside the old walled town like two years ago, this time we are staying in an apartment up on the hill overlooking town and the sea.  The view is spectacular, and the owners let us in on a little secret:  if you keep heading up the hill, on the other side you come to a much more beautiful and much less frequented beach than the one everyone walks to near town.  Of course, the reason it’s less frequented is that it is a three-kilometer drive on a curvy, hilly, single land road with a 100-foot drop to the sea right at the edge of the pavement.  But it's well worth it...the beach is very beautiful and we practically had the whole swimming area to ourselves.