CRUISING
Captivated
BY CROATIA
CROATIA CROATIA CROATIA CROATIA CROATIA
With superb sailing, fantastic scenery, crystal clear waters and so
many interesting stopovers, Croatia is an ideal charter destination.
As Ross Farncombe explains, you get a lot for your money.
The only real problem was getting there in the first place.
W
e must have looked a bitten the bullet and paid the Gatwick, the four of us – me, Century as a royal Croatian
motley crew standing €160 for the 120km journey Ian, Kevin and new cabin boy city and again in the 11th
at the side of the road. that we were quoted for a cab Pete – had no trouble sleeping Century as the centre of
The trouble was that we were direct from the airport. But for the best part of the journey. Croatian kings – although
waiting for a bus and there then, after some discussion I would advise you to stay only the ruins of St John’s
wasn’t a bus stop in sight. with a local or two, the next awake, though, because the monastery remain after most
However, the instructions bus that fought its way through bus takes the coast road instead of the town was destroyed
that I had acquired from the the hectic traffic was, we were of the motorway and gives a during the Turkish-Venetian
internet were quite precise assured, going to Biograd. We spectacular introduction to the wars in the mid-17th Century.
– just go to Trogir and wait for threw our bags into the hold beauty of the Croatian coast Nowadays, Biograd is a
any bus opposite the market and found seats on the bustling and countryside. typical tourist town as well
going to either Rijeka or Zadar. coach; having paid a little over I must admit to having slight as a boating Mecca with two
They are every half hour and 240 kunas (£7.50) each, for the reservations about Biograd, excellent marinas at Kornati
“they all go through Biograd”. journey, once again it looked because it sounded more like a and Sangulin.
After some three-quarters of like a good idea. highly toxic leftover chemical The walk from the bus stop
an hour I got the impression The coach trip took the works from a bygone era. to the marina complex was
my crew was starting to think best part of 2½ hours, but However, Biograd was first not much more than 400m
that maybe we should have after a very early flight out of mentioned in the mid 10th and the entrance is right by
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