{"id":1049,"date":"2013-08-13T08:57:47","date_gmt":"2013-08-13T07:57:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/merrington.net\/?p=1049"},"modified":"2013-08-13T08:59:52","modified_gmt":"2013-08-13T07:59:52","slug":"1049","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/?p=1049","title":{"rendered":"First of the Croatian Islands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\n(function(i,s,o,g,r,a,m){i['GoogleAnalyticsObject']=r;i[r]=i[r]||function(){   (i[r].q=i[r].q||[]).push(arguments)},i[r].l=1*new Date();a=s.createElement(o),   m=s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];a.async=1;a.src=g;m.parentNode.insertBefore(a,m)   })(window,document,'script','\/\/www.google-analytics.com\/analytics.js','ga');   ga('create', 'UA-42922575-1', 'merrington.net');   ga('send', 'pageview');\n\/\/ ]]><\/script>Sunday saw us go to Dubrovnik Old Town for a last look, on our way into town however we counted five cruise ships and started making alternate plans.\u00a0 We thought we might go to some of the newer parts of Dubrovnik and since we had heard about the Orsan Yacht Club thought we might have a nice lunch there.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1050\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1050\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/merrington.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/P1090297-640x480.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1050\" alt=\"Orsan Yacht Club Restaurant\" src=\"http:\/\/merrington.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/P1090297-640x480.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/merrington.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/P1090297-640x480.jpg 640w, https:\/\/merrington.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/P1090297-640x480-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/merrington.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/P1090297-640x480-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1050\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Orsan Yacht Club Restaurant<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In the evening after exploring, lunching and doing a bit of shopping in New Dubrovnik, we went back to the Marina and swam in the cold refreshing pool, which is filled with water from a nearby mountain river.\u00a0 It is so cold but so refreshing.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1054\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1054\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/merrington.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/DSCN0374-640x480.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1054\" alt=\"Swimming\" src=\"http:\/\/merrington.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/DSCN0374-640x480.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/merrington.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/DSCN0374-640x480.jpg 640w, https:\/\/merrington.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/DSCN0374-640x480-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/merrington.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/DSCN0374-640x480-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1054\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Swimming<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>We leave the next day for Kolocep, one of the Elafiti Islands just off Dubrovnik for a swim.\u00a0 We motored over to the bay of Slano before deciding we will continue on to Kobas a small fishing village with stern to moorings for the \u201cguests\u201d of the restaurants.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1053\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1053\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/merrington.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/P1090328-640x338.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1053\" alt=\"Off to the next destination after a refreshing swim\" src=\"http:\/\/merrington.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/P1090328-640x338.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/merrington.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/P1090328-640x338.jpg 640w, https:\/\/merrington.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/P1090328-640x338-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/merrington.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/P1090328-640x338-500x264.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1053\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Off to the next destination after a refreshing swim<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The cooking seems to be done in a massive outdoor over with the vegetables from the garden and fish, scallops, shrimp, sea urchins, mussels and oysters locally sourced.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1052\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1052\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/merrington.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/P1090357-640x480.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1052\" alt=\"Dinner\" src=\"http:\/\/merrington.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/P1090357-640x480.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/merrington.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/P1090357-640x480.jpg 640w, https:\/\/merrington.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/P1090357-640x480-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/merrington.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/P1090357-640x480-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1052\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dinner<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>There are three restaurants here and we pick the one with the deepest moorings: Niko\u2019s Croatian food aka Konobas &#8211; Ribarska Kuca Niko. The bread was the best we have had in Montenegro or Croatia, coquilles St. Jacque were very tasty and the fish platter was lovely. We also had a very nice cheeky white chilled to perfection. In Italy you may pay E100 for a marina, in Croatia you pay E120 for marina and a two course meal.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1051\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1051\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/merrington.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/P1090338-640x421.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1051\" alt=\"Rustic backdrop to the restaurant\" src=\"http:\/\/merrington.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/P1090338-640x421.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"421\" srcset=\"https:\/\/merrington.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/P1090338-640x421.jpg 640w, https:\/\/merrington.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/P1090338-640x421-300x197.jpg 300w, https:\/\/merrington.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/P1090338-640x421-456x300.jpg 456w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1051\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rustic backdrop to the restaurant<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>We have enjoyed all the emails about places to go and restaurants here in Croatia.\u00a0 We are looking forward to catching up with Lesley in two weeks and maybe we will see Lauren before that. The Godson is departing for Australia without a visit this time, but we still love him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday saw us go to Dubrovnik Old Town for a last look, on our way into town however we counted five cruise ships and started making alternate plans.\u00a0 We thought we might go to some of the newer parts of Dubrovnik and since we had heard about the Orsan Yacht Club thought we might have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/merrington.net\/?p=1049\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">First of the Croatian Islands<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventures-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s3VxXq-1049","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1049"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1057,"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1049\/revisions\/1057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}