These are the views from our balcony in Hvar!!!! 
Have I really been traveling for 19 days? I feel like I haven’t been. No television, no newspapers, a couple hotels we have stayed at had TV’s but we only turned them on a few times.
Today dawned bright with clear blue skies here in Hvar. I actually opened my eyes at 7am and promptly turned over and went back to sleep. I did pull myself out of bed at 8am and come out onto the balcony/patio to take some pictures. As magical as Hvar is at night, it is just as beautiful in the daylight!
After letting the water heater warm up for about half an hour, I jumped in the shower and managed to not soak the entire bathroom! It felt great to have a clean body and hair after a day of marathon traveling. After CL woke and got dressed we headed out in search of the tourist office for a map and a café for breakfast.
We found the tourist office with no trouble, it’s right on the main square and got a map and asked the all important question….where is the self-service laundry? The woman behind the desk pointed us in the right direction and then it was time for the second most important thing…breakfast! We found a little café with good looking pastries and opted for a long cylindrical phy1lo pastry stuffed with cheese and a cappuccino, what a great way to start the day, sitting outside on the harbor on a picture postcard perfect day!
By now it was 11am-ish so we went in search of the launderette and found it with no problem and it was practically empty. We headed to the grocery store to buy some “provisions” and laundry detergent.
We came back to the apartment, put the groceries away and gathered our dirty laundry and went back down to the launderette, good thing it was just across the square from the street our apartment was on! We consolidated our laundry loads but we still had 4 washers going. We chose to do the short cycle which was only 50 Kuna per machine so that cost us 200 Kuna, about $30, BUT well worth every cent…after 17 days of doing laundry in hotel room sinks, we were ready for a real washing machine! We decided not to use the dryers at the launderette (would have been another 40 Kuna per load) because on our balcony/patio we have 4 clothes lines and with the breeze and no humidity our clothes were dry in a little over an hour. While the clothes dried we just chilled out on the balcony taking in the view.
At about 3pm we decided to walk up to the fortress and check out the view from up there. Again, jaw dropping gorgeous! It was 10 Kuna to get into the fortress, but it was worth it just for the view of the Old Town and harbor below.
Of course prior to our climb, while we were chilling out at the apartment CL put together a great lunch of bread, cheese, tomato, onion, pepper and mozzarella salad with olive oil and balsamic vinegar and to top it all off fresh nectarine slices…it was DELISH!
On our walk up to the fortress we stopped for our first gelato here on Hvar. I had one scoop chocolate and one scoop tiramisa…YUMMO!
After taking in the spectacular views from the fortress we walked down the trail through a park-like area and walked along the streets of the old town, the town square and harbor and did a little shopping. I got a few postcards and a tee shirt. We also found a place for dinner that was listed in one of our guidebooks and made a reservation for dinner.
We came back to the apartment at about 6pm and relaxed and watched the sunset…truly fabulous. Just before 8pm we walked back down to the restaurant we had a reservation at, it was not far from the apartment. We had a fish soup that wasn’t too great, salad and shrimp risotto. It all ok, but nothing spectacular, I think we just ordered the wrong things because the couple next to us looked like they had really tasty food. Oh well, live and learn! My mantra…”Don’t let great be the enemy of good” came in handy for this restaurant experience!
After dinner we took a short walk along the harbor and in the main square so I could take some night photos with the buildings all lit up…it was so pretty! We called it an early night and went back to the apartment and drifted off to sleep, in between the ringing of the church bells. Yes, our apartment is practically next door to the church, so every hour we heard the church bells…but there are worse noises to have to go to sleep by or wake up to!
This was a great relaxing day after almost 3 weeks of non-stop moving!
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