Croatia Travel Blog

This is big news indeed. Skyservice Airlines has just started a direct route from Toronto to Zagreb, the first flight directly from North America to Croatia. The weekly Skyservice flight will leave Toronto every Wednesday at 10.45pm, arriving in Zagreb at 3pm. The return flight leaves Zagreb Thursdays at 7pm arriving in Toronto at 12.34am.

Skyservice has been running charter flights to Zagreb since 2004 but the new regularly scheduled flight has been a big success. The maiden flight was June 20; all went well and we can assume that Canada’s Canadian community was delighted with the news. We can also assume that tickets will sell out pretty soon so book now at Skyservice! Go to more information about cheap flights to Croatia.

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Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary Art Pavilion is traveling to the Island of Lopud, accompanied by the symposium “Patronage of Space”Your black horizon, a remarkable light installation by Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson, was commissioned by Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary and inaugurated to great critical acclaim in June 2005 as an official project at the 51st Venice Biennale of Visual Arts. London-based architect David Adjaye was engaged to work in close collaboration with Eliasson and to conceive an environment in which art and architecture were from the outset considered as one, “an interlocking equation”. It is this relationship, one of engagement and response, and a constant revision of prescribed boundaries between disciplines, that T-B A21 aspires to encourage on a broad and courageous scale. See article.

Gorgeous Lopud Island is little more than a stone’s throw from Dubrovnik. It’s always seemed more conducive to contemplating nature than contemporary art but that’s about to change. This intriguing exhibition will be on display from June 20 to October 31, 2007 and admission is free! All the more reason to make Lopud a day trip from Dubrovnik.

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Korcula Island residents are disappointed but visitors to Dubrovnik will find this new passenger ferry connection a big boon. The Nona Ana fast ferry which has been running visitors (and locals) out to the Elaphiti Islands and Mljet Island for the last few years has added a connection to Korcula this summer. This July and August, the boat will run from Dubrovnik to Sobra and Polace on Mljet Island four days a week and then continue on to Korcula. (See the schedule). With a schedule that leaves Dubrovnik in the morning and returns from Korcula in the afternoon, it’s finally possible to visit Korcula Island as a day trip from Dubrovnik without paying a fortune! As fares are subsidised by the government, they are more than reasonable, certainly a lot cheaper than taking an organised excursion. Korcula Islanders are the only unhappy ones here. They were kinda hoping the schedules would allow day trips to Dubrovnik from Korcula, not the other way around. With this schedule they get a lot of day visitors, sure, but not the money they would get from overnighters. See more about

• Getting to Korcula
• Korcula Island
• Dubrovnik
• Mljet Island
• Elaphiti Islands

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One of my very favorite of Croatia’s many idyllic islands is untamed Cres Island. It’s not hard to reach–there are regular ferries from Valbiska on the mainland–but it just feels so remote. Large patches of this long island (shaped like an exclamation point) are pastures, shrubs and pine forests but there are also some wonderful beaches, like Valun. For whatever reason, Cres has been under the radar and largely apart from the great tourist rush to Croatia.

No more.

The Times has just delivered a glowing write-up of Cres Island under the headlines: “Relaxing Holidays Away from the Beach”; “A Secret Island in Croatia”.

I was pleased to see the attractions of Beli highlighted but there are also other highlights in Cres that are unmentioned, such as “artistic” Osor, “Venetian” Cres Town and the marvellous sandy beach at the aforesaid Valun. Read more about Cres Island.

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