Olive oil production in Croatia is often done on small family farms in the Istrian region. This article is about stumbling upon a small olive oil production facility in Croatia and its friendly owner.
Category: Croatia
Celebrating Birthdays and Playing Mafia
"The city is sleeping," said the young Russian boy. We all closed our eyes. As I sat around the beach blanket with six children from Russia, Italy and Croatia still dripping from the salty Adriatic Sea and playing the card game Mafia, I wondered, how did I get here? We had just been swimming off …
Getting out of Split: A Cautionary Tale of the Infamous Croatian Bura
It was the best of times. It was the worst of times. Yes, Dickens said it best. It started with a journey to Split in September for a charter adventure to the islands of Brač, Hvar and Vis with my husband Captain Mike, and our friends James, Carolyn and Karl. It ended with with a …
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The Journey back ….it’s the little things
Just returned from a day sailing trip to Premantura with Mike. The day has been cool and sunny but an unexpected rainstorm has us tucked inside our new boat Rita. We just got back to Croatia last Friday night from New Orleans, dropped off all but one of our suitcases and hightailed it to our …
A Love Letter to Croatia
As a young mother you never really appreciate how much you will love your children when they are newly born and how that love will exponentially grow throughout their lives. I remember as soon as I delivered my youngest daughter Marina, I heard her sweet cry and she sounded like a little lamb. I fell …
The Beauty of Porec’s Euphrasian Basilica
It's not everyday that you are able to visit a church that opened in 553 AD and then, on top of that, are astounded by the artistic talent you see inside. That's just what happened last weekend when we visited the Euphrasian Basilica (also known as the Cathedral Basilica of the Assumption of Mary) in …
On Pašte and Patience
What a difference a week makes! School started this week in Pula, the tourist crowd is dwindling down to a enjoyable amount, and there is a hint of autumn in the air with the temperatures hovering in the mid-to-high 70s. The rocky beaches that were swarming with people from all over Europe are now dotted …
Volim Te, Maslinovo ulje (I love you, Olive Oil)
Falling in Love with Istrian Olive Oil I have a confession to make. I have a new love. Every morning since I discovered the taste of Istrian olive oil, I grab a small piece of fresh bread and douse it with this liquid gold. And when I say "douse," I mean douse it like I'm …
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It’s Raining Figs, Halleluja!
The other day I noticed there were ants crawling all over the sandals in my room. I went to go smack these annoying little creatures with that very same set of sandals when I saw a sticky, gooey, dark brown blob with tiny seeds smashed all over on the bottom of them. Think Fig Newtons …
Trading Beautiful for Beautiful
It's May 12th and we are on our way to Bologna, Italy by car from Croatia. It's a symphony of red poppies as they are blooming everywhere along the roadside in our new hometown of Pula. I've never seen red poppies blooming outside of photographs, and the landscape doesn't seem quite real dotted with these …
A Walk on the Wild (Asparagus) Side
A few weeks ago Carolyn and I were wandering off in the woods of the Soline Forest again near Pula and ran smack into a little boy of about 6 years-old and his mom. The boy ran right up to us and proclaimed something excitedly in Croatian and showed us a fist full of a …
“Moj Grad Je Vinograd” (My Town is a Vineyard): Festival of Wine 2018 in Gračišće
On the day after Easter Sunday our landlord Edvard told us there was a festival we should consider attending. The week before we had been away from Croatia traveling in Denmark, then had returned home and gone sightseeing around Croatia with our guests from Hungary, so I guess we were more than a little tired. …
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