• Krka National Park and Skradin

    October 9, 2024 in Croatia ⋅ ☁️ 24 °C

    Setting out early but still not as early as the start of the music school’s day - we headed for a bus to Krka. This UNESCO National Park is on the Krka river in Sthn Croatia. There had been a good rainfall a couple of days prior so it was full on. It was nice to be away from the multitudes but frankly, the roar of the rushing water all around us was pretty intense too. There’s an old Blacksmiths workshop there still, a mill and a huge kind of ancient industrial sized wash machine which I couldn’t quite fathom actually but they had sheep and wove wool for rugs, garments etc and traded them. There were some samples. Pretty rugged wool! Following looking around there we took a boat to Skradin. What a cute little town. About 3000 population. Had lunch there (delicious fish soup) and entertainment in the way of the car being craned out of the canal post an 11pm, night before mishap!
    Next to a wine and cheese tasting which was a bit disappointing really. This is in the area where they suffered the fires a couple of months back. They did a good job of saving homes - areas burnt all around some. Sadly some vineyards were completely lost.
    Still feeling disgruntled with Split (it would have been fine if we went there first!) we cut a new plan for the last day. We booked some accommodation in Trogir which is a small town on the other side of Split airport a bit more like Hvar!
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