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Winter visit to the Plitvice Lakes

By Morten Smalby

In Active holidays

The Plitvice Lakes National Park is a great place to visit during the winter season, even if you have already visited it during one of the 3 other seasons, I highly recommend visiting it in the winter. The best and most spectacular sight is when the park is covered in snow and that happens almost every […]

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Pakostane holiday at camp Kozarica

By Morten Smalby

Our first camping trip this year was at Camp Kozarica in Pakostane, as our tent did not survive the rain at Camp Galeb last year in September, and as I didn’t find any place where we could buy a

Biševo Island, Blue cave on Island Bisevo

By Morten Smalby

As I mentioned in our travel story from Vis, one day of our Holiday was spend on a visit to the Island of Biševo, which is a small island situated 4 nautical miles SW of Komiža. Our visit to Vis was

Island Vis – Tito’s Military Island

By Morten Smalby

In Active holidays , trips , Vis

Last summer we had and excellent holiday on the Island of Vis. My colleague Vivian’s parents in law, had been so kind to lent us there house in the middle of Vis town, so a Friday afternoon in August we left Split with the ferry, for our first visit to the Island. A little bit […]

Dalmatia , Mljet , trips

Island Korčula

By Morten Smalby

At our visit to Korčula a few weeks ago, we of course did not spend all our time just relaxing in the nice hotel pool in Lumbarda, we also went to explore the Island. The main site to see on the Is

Dalmatia , Guides

Lumbarda Island Korčula

By Morten Smalby

Last Thursday there was a public holiday in Croatia, so we so made short term decision to take the grandparents for a mini holiday on the island of Korčula, I have visit the island 4 to 5 times befor

One way of seeing the country

By Morten Smalby

In trips , Zagreb

Our main business is to sell calling cards (International phone cards), which actually surprises quite a few people as they didn’t know something like that exist in Croatia, but we have actually bee in this business for almost five years, so we can confirm that calling cards exist here in Croatia. During the initial years […]

Dalmatia , trips

Nin, the oldest city in Croatia

By Morten Smalby

The town Nin is considered to be one of the oldest cities in Croatia, Nin is situated 15 north of Zadar. when you arrive to Nin from Zadar , you will pass the Zaton holiday village and just after that

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Island Pag

By Morten Smalby

Our visit to Island of Pag, which is about 30 minutes from Zadar, along the road you have wine fields and agricultural land, but once you reach the island of Pag, the landscape completely changes, the

Zadar

By Morten Smalby

In trips

This year we spend our Easter holiday in north Dalmatian town Zadar, where we had 4 relaxing days by in Linda and Mario’s apartments in Zadar. For those of you who are not familiar with Zadar I would briefly explain a bit about the cities history. Do to Zadar strategically placement well protected behind the […]

Gastronomy , Istria , trips

Novigrad and Umag

By Morten Smalby

Novigrad: Unfortunately the weather was not to go on Easter Sunday, but we anyway decided of visit the cities along the coastal road north of Porec. First stop on the road was Novigrad, which is about

Active holidays , Skiing , sport

Skiing in Bosnia

By Morten Smalby

Today we went to the ski resort Kupres in Bosnia, although this is only 135 Km from our hometown Split, this was our first trip to Kupres. Although there are a few places to ski in Croatia, Kupres i

Krka Waterfalls winter

By Morten Smalby

In Dalmatia , trips

This Sunday, our Australian friends and us went to visit the National park Krka to see the waterfalls and although we have been there several times, it was our first trip during the winter season. Krka is the second most visited national park in Croatia- We went to Skradin, which is the southern entrance to the […]

Croatia , Dalmatia , trips

Finding the source of river Cetina – Croatia

By Morten Smalby

Today we went on trip to find the source of River Cetina, which is between Sinj and Knin just below the Dinara Mountains, from it source 385 m above sea level, the river flows into the 15 km long lake

Welcome to our blog about holidays in Croatia, here you will find our real life experience from living and working in Croatia. We spend a great deal of our time on the Croatian roads exploring all the interesting historical towns and the islands in Croatia. Till now we have visited most cities on the Croatian Adriatic coast, of the islands we among others have had the pleasure to visit Brac, Korcula, Vis, Hvar even several times. Here on our blog you can find information about our trips to different towns and islands; our approach is to give straight forward information about the places we have visited.

In addition to the travel stories you may also find information about Visa, Prices, Highway, using mobile phone and other stuff which could have an impact on your holiday budget. If you wish to book a Hotel or a Private apartment in Croatia we of course also have a special section on our page with various kinds of accommodation in Croatia.

Last but not least, we love to share our experience from Croatia with our readers, so please feel free to use the comment field under each post. If you have a question in relation to Holidays in Croatia, we can not guarantee that we can reply on all the questions you might have, but we will for sure give it our best shot!

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