Greetings from the Island of Šolta

One of the many things I enjoy about living in Croatia is the proximity of the thousands of islands along the Adriatic coast. Today we took a day trip to the Island of Šolta.
A friend of the family rented a yacht for a week and invited us to come along for the day. The plans were to have lunch in the terrace of the newly restored 303 year old castle Martinis Marchi then visit the beach on the island of Ciovo before heading back to Split.
In the beginning Beli was a bit anxious (it was her first time on a boat) but she quickly took charge and was allowed behind the steering wheel.
brave little one................................

According to the website, Luxury Croatian Villas "The castle was originally built by the Martinis brothers in the early 18th century to help protect the Split mainland and islands from pirate attacks as well as to develop a community to work the land."

Le château Restaurant, where you will find friendly staff, overpriced lunch but a fabulous view of the fishing village Maslinica.

She enjoyed her fish soup so much she was dipping a piece of homemade bread into the broth.

Initially we were the only guests and Beli took the liberty of running around the terrace as if it was her own backyard. You noticed she took of her sandals?

Doesn't this look picture resemble something from a movie set?

As we were near the island of Ciovo we saw a storm approaching us and it began to rain but after 10 minutes the sun returned.

Everyone went for a swim except Beli and I. We weren't that brave.

Afterwards we headed back to Split, said our goodbyes and our friends were off to their next adventure.

From my Kitchen

Monday morning we took Beli to the sandy beach at Bacvice and what a nice surprise we had, we saw our friends (M and B) and their little girl. It was a great seeing them because they had just returned from Greece where M's husband was playing professional basketball, and exciting news, they are expecting their second child, a boy! And even though we spent hours catching up, we wanted to know more about their traveling adventures so we agreed to have lunch at our place later in the week. This is what we had,

on the menu:

An appetizer platter with anchovies, octopus salad, balakar pate and olives.

Lunch: zucchini soup, cucumber, tomato and basil salad, grilled fish komarca (sea bass I believe?) and for dessert kava, coffee.
Beli was very happy to have a play date with B.

We talked about what it's like to raise our daughters multilingual. We discussed even opening our own daycare (they are in great demand) or an ethnic restaurant. Is nice to dream right? We love children and good food and of course, the company of good friends. Now how about a siesta, anyone?