This week-long holiday on the island of Vis invites you to explore an amazing habitat of visual and mental landscapes shaped through the centuries by nature, history and human folly. The programme includes your choice of accommodation in Komiza, Vis Town, Milna Bay or Talez, car hire, and three private, informal tours. Your guides are young, enthusiastic, local individuals who have partnered with My Croatia to give you an insider's view of the island's unique history, culture and lifestyle. The journey will take you over winding tracks and narrow footpaths to rocky peaks and hidden coves, through a landscape of herbs, vineyards and olive groves. As in all of our programmes, food and drink play a vital role. Serving only what they produce locally, your hosts will demonstrate their culinary skills and respect for nature while intriguing you with stories and personal anecdotes that illustrate island life. Following a sumptuous meal of grilled lamb, kid or scorpion fish and a carafe of delicious homemade wine, you may find yourself invited to inspect the family's olive press, a photo album, a kitchen garden of lavender and burgeoning tomato vines.
The first of our tours - Vis by Sea - is a journey by boat around the island. Together with your skipper you will spend the day sailing to hidden coves and beaches, the lighthouse in Stoncica, Stiniva Bay and the Green Grotto. Lunch will be served at 'Stoncica', an organic smallholding and restaurant, run by the four Lincir brothers. Set on the edge of a sandy cove, under a ramshackle of palm trees and bamboo, the brothers serve only what they grow on their land and catch in the sea. Their specialty is lamb, kid, and potatoes, slow-roasted under a cast-iron dome, served with fresh greens and a bottle of crisp, dry Vugava white.
Our Wine & History Tour is a fun, off-road experience that will take you back in time to some of the island’s most sublime and unexpected places. A subterranean world of missile bases and bunkers. An airstrip in the middle of a vineyard. A cricket field and English fortress. As the journey continues, the stories will turn to wine and the great phylloxera epidemic that devastated the island’s vineyards and wiped out its economy early in the twentieth century. Luckily a renaissance is underway, and a stop at Nikola Roki’s in the village of Plisko Polje for an evening of winetasting and dinner should prove the point.
Fijaka is a word commonly used in the island cultures of Dalmatia. It is a condition. A state of mind. A relaxed, lazy, pleasantly indolent feeling. Our Vis Slow Food Experience is an eccentric, gastronomic journey to the rocky cove of Mala Travna, and the tumbledown cottage of Senko Karuza - chef, poet, writer and philosopher. At Senko's Place, the rules are simple - relax, indulge, enjoy and accept fijaka. Guests can participate in the cooking, go for a swim, explore the cove, or just sit and chat. The day will focus on a banquet of wild organic foods - delicate antipasti, organic vegetables, fish, cheese, brujeta, wine and brandy. Everything Senko prepares is caught in the sea, harvested in the fields or grown on his property nearby. His wine and brandies are homemade as well, pressed from the grapes in his vineyards across the hill.
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