Brac, Croatia

July 14- Day 14

The night was much better in a berth. We all had a great sleep in our little cabin. We were awoken by a tap on the door at 6am. The ferry docks at 7 so we had some time to get up. We are now in Split, Croatia. I can tell that we are in another country. The people are more friendly here and the cars are not trying to run everyone over. Ah, to be out of Italy ia so much more relaxing. We stopped in a small sidewalk area for our breakfast of freah bread and honey that we picked up at a backery in Ancona. It was a nice treat to have honey. Then we looked for the tourist info booth. In all the citys we have been in so far, the info booths are useless and this one we couldn’t even find. After asking 5 or 6 local people we gave up. As we were looking we were discussing what we were going to do. The kids voted for an island. We heard from some travellers on the ferry over that there was a really nice island just off the mainland called Brac and another called Hvar. We decided during our walk to go straight out to one of them. We couldn’t decide which one so we left it to the one that left soonest. Brac was the winner. After yet another 1 hr. ferry ride we are now going to be settled for a few days. As long as we can find a place to stay.
As we got off the ferry a woman was standing at the dock. She asked me as I was walking by if we needed a place to stay. I said yes we did and asked what she had. She told us about her house where she also lives and rent s out room. Her family was supposed to be here and were delayed and so she had these apartments for rent. We asked the price and if we could see it, so she took us 5 mins. Away. The place is great. It is a 2 bedroom, 2 bath apartment with a kitchen and a dining room and a full couryard right out our door. She lives right next door and so Miranda had fun this evenning helping her water her flowers and lemon and other fruit trees in the courtyard. We spent the day exploring the small very quiet town and at the beach. I absolutluy love it here. We may stay longer than planned.