1 June 2023 - Luka Jurjeva, Lastovo

This is expected to be our last day in Croatia, we plan to head to Italy tomorrow.  We woke to a completely tranquil scene, with barely a ripple on the water.


We headed ashore in the tender, and walked into Ubli, where there is a supermarket.  It is more than 4 km in each direction, but we needed to buy enough bread to last us today and tomorrow.  The road is mostly quiet, but there are no footpaths, and when the cars come, they are not expecting to encounter pedestrians, so it is a bit daunting at times. The views make it all worthwhile, and we were rewarded at the inland end by finding a larger and better stocked supermarket than we had expected.  The return was uneventful and we enjoyed our well deserved lunch when we arrived back on board.


We have read that the chimneys on the island are unique, and are determined by your family and status.  We haven’t seen enough to have good comparisons, but we did see one that was quite noticeable.


Thursday, Friday and Saturday are our favourite days when we are in the more remote islands like Lastovo.  The charter boats have all started their journeys back to base, where they need to be by Friday night, so it is gloriously quiet.  We only have one other boat in the bay tonight, an Austrian registered boat, with just a couple on board. They have also been here for a couple of days so are presumably also savouring the peace.

Miles today            0

Miles in 2023     592

Steve (& Tricia)

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