My boss handed me a bonus check and said “invest it wisely.” I invested it in a round-trip ticket and two weeks somewhere I’d been dreaming about since a geography class in eighth grade — the French Riviera, that sun-drenched stretch of coastline I’d stared at in a textbook map, tracing my finger from Menton … Read more
Tucked between the rugged peninsula of Istria and the sun-drenched shores of Dalmatia, the Kvarner Gulf is one of Croatia’s most rewarding — and most underrated — destinations. While the crowds flock south to Dubrovnik or west to Split, savvy travellers are quietly discovering a stretch of Adriatic coastline that feels like a secret the … Read more
We’d been saying “we should all go somewhere together” for six years. After the fourth postponed trip and two weddings that got in the way, we stopped talking and just bought tickets — four of us, one-way to Rijeka, with a loose plan to spend ten days along the Kvarner Riviera and base ourselves in … Read more
If you’ve been scrolling past the Kvarner Gulf islands in favour of Hvar or Korčula, it’s time to reconsider your Croatia game plan. Tucked between the Istrian peninsula and the northern Dalmatian coast, the Kvarner Gulf islands are arguably Croatia’s most underrated island-hopping destination — a place where the crowds thin out, the prices stay … Read more
