Today we visited Murano. An Island in the Venetian lagoon approx 4 nm from Venice.Murano is famous for it’s glass making.Glass making used to be done on the island of Venice, but in the late 12th century the glass makers where ordered to move their ind…
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Venicienc at work
We went for a walk to the down town core of Venice. Later in the day it gets very busy on the Piazza San Marco, so we decided to leave relatively early and take a look. We arrived at the square shortly after 09.00 and the line up to get into the “Basil…
Venice
The marina we are staying in in Venice is a brand new marina. It has been operating for some time but the official opening only happened less than a month ago. It is on the main island where Piazza San Marco is. The famous Piazza San Marco is only a 25…
Crossing to Italy
Aug. 23 and the weather is very favorable for a crossing.Total distance from Porec to Venice is 51 nm. We left at 07.30 hr and arrived at the entrance to Venice at 14.45 hr. &nb…
Porec
On Thursday 27th of Aug we set sail for an anchorage just north of Rovinj. There is a long ( just over 5nm) narrow inlet that draws a lot of attention. Tripper boats take load after load of people of people for day trips. The area is off li…
Rovinj
The approach to R…
Losinj to Uvala Soline
We left to go north to the main land and stayed in a very sheltered bay called Uvala Soline. This is just south of Pula. We had to do a 3 hour open water crossing to go from the islands to the main land.Istra the first sight of land on the north coast …
Artaturion the island of Losinj
Thanks to Lidija and Os we have a really good weather site for the Croatian coast. This morning when we checked it we realized that an other storm was brewing and to come in to our area around 14.00 hrBeing we only had 20 nm to travel to get to Losinj …
From Split to Kakan and Silba.
Our first cruise after Split took most of the day. We anchored in a large anchorage off the island of Kakan. There were at least 70 moorings and most of them were taken. We always anchor anyway, however even at anchor they came along and collected an “…
Split
We spent a couple of days in the Split marina on a dock. Had to do some house cleaning and re provisioning. Also had a rendezvous with Lidija and Os. We met them 4 years ago in Belgrade, and now again in Split.The city of Split as seen from the water. …
