The Island of Hvar part 2

The second day in Hvar was a full day as we anchored there for two nights. We woke up to a beautiful morning and a beautiful view.

We decided that we would rent scooters again and go explore the island a bit, so after a nice coffee in the main square we headed out to find some scooters to rent.

There were several different operators who rented to scooters, but we kind of liked these retro looking ones, so 5 scooters rented and we headed up in to the hills behind the town of Hvar.

The countryside was interesting with the landscape being covered with piles of rocks forming small fields as far as the eye could see.

The only thing that we could see growing in these small fields was lavender, but many of them seemed to be abandoned, though that must have been a lot of work to clear them. We went across the island for a little and then went down towards the coast again to a small town called Stari Grad.

The Island of Hvar part 1

The weather continued to be perfect, warm and sunny, but not too hot and we sailed a little, motored a little heading for one of the largest islands Hvar.

We arrived in the early afternoon and found one of the few anchorages in the inner harbour of the town of Hvar.

The town looked similar, if larger than the towns on the other islands, but there was a large castle sitting on the hill overlooking the town and harbour.  We took the tender and started to look for somewhere for dinner.  I was craving lamb and there was a dish that we had seen advertised at many restaurants called "lamb under a bell" which I curious about.  We found a restaurant that had this and we booked a table and ordered the lamb as it was cooked to order and took over 2 hours.

Al negotiating with the chef

We explored around the town for a couple of hours returning at the appointed time to the restaurant.