Our first chance to get out and find some plants (as that’s what we have come to Croatia to do) was the tiny island of Lokrum which is just 600m – virtually a 10min boat ride -from the Old City.
Although inhabited by Benedictine monks since 1023 it wasn’t until Archduke Maximilian Ferdinand of Habsburg built a mansion built in 1859 that plants came to the fore on Lokrum. He laid out an amazing garden with an incredible variety of botanical wonders. Read More…
The weather has been too good, and there’s been too many pictures to edit to enable me to BLOG. However a wet afternoon two weeks into our trip enabled me to catch up on some sleep… Consequently it’s now 2am and I’m as bright as a button. Thankfully IPads emit very little light and are virtually soundless.
We started our Croatian part of the trip in Dubrovnik – what a gorgeous city. So much is written about the Unesco cities and sights of Croatia so I won’t bore you with more. Suffice to say it is gorgeous and only a few remnants of the 1991-1995 Homeland war are visible to the untrained eye.
