Fresh Orange Juice

Driving through Croatia, one of the best little discoveries has been the roadside fresh fruit and juice stalls. 🍊🚐🇭🇷

Not flashy tourist places — just small family setups at the side of the road with piles of oranges, peaches, cherries and homemade bottles of fresh orange juice sitting in cool boxes under parasols. The sort of places you spot at the last second and immediately think, “Yep… I’m stopping there.”

The fresh orange juice was unbelievable too. Properly fresh. None of that supermarket concentrate nonsense. Just cold, sharp, sweet sunshine in a bottle after hours on hot coastal roads. Some stalls had homemade lemonade, honey, figs and local olive oil as well.

It’s one of those simple travel moments that somehow becomes part of the whole adventure — parked up in Vanilla with the Adriatic nearby, sipping fresh juice bought from a roadside shack while old Croatian radio music crackles in the background. Absolute Balkan road-trip perfection. 🍊🌅Read more