This week’s storm in the Adriatic has been a doozy – one of the most powerful in years. Calling it the storm of the century isn’t terribly helpful, as this is only 2019, but you’d have to go back to the 1960s to find something similar. The maximum wind gusts at Marijan in Split were…
Hvar in February is beautiful, appearing in a completely different light from the heat of summer. This morning, for instance, I was drawn to take my camera for a walk by the most perfect atmospheric sunrise. Somewhat unusually, we were enveloped in dense fog, with very little of the wider landscape showing, meanwhile the sun…
This week’s wintry weather has caught us too! Even on Hvar we have a dusting of snow, swept in on a howling bura for the last couple of days. Daytime temperatures are now close to zero, and due to hit -3 C overnight. We’re all trying to protect our water pipes and citrus trees. The…
Sunrise and sunset can be spectacularly beautiful on the island. I love to get up early and enjoy the pretty dawn colours, streaks of delicate yellows, pinks and oranges. I sometimes attempt to capture the subtle lighting with my camera, but there’s only a fleeting window of opportunity to do it in, before the sun…
Depending on where you live, your experience of a southerly wind may be a warm, gentle breeze, or if you’re from Australia it’ll be something much more stormy! I’ve already mentioned that around the Adriatic, and indeed throughout the Mediterranean, the winds have names. The most powerful of them is the bura – that powerful…
I mentioned in a previous article that the winds have names here. And as we’re into winter now, I thought I’d take a more in-depth look at that powerful force – the bura. Now, not all buras are created equal. In local speak – there is the light bura which clears the air and cools…
In the Adriatic, you’d think there wasn’t really much extreme weather to talk about, especially if you visited in the high summer. OK, the odd thunderstorm over the mainland in the afternoon, but not out on the islands, surely? Yet you’ll see examples of windroses here and there, with the winds clearly named. There’s one…
MF “Tin Ujević” is the car ferry that runs from Split to Stari Grad. It sails several times daily, more often in the summer months and less frequently throughout the rest of the year. The trip takes a couple of hours, I could wish it went faster, but it’s a time to have breakfast (or…
I’m convinced that the ferry to Hvar is magic! Even when it’s tipping down with rain on the mainland, drenching cold and horrible, yet within the short sail to the island, the clouds will clear and the sun comes out!
Go Hvar 
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