Following a meeting of all relevant bodies of Peljesac and Dubrovnik county with new Peljesac Wine Society ?Pelje?ki vinski puti?, we can expect “Peljesac Wine Roads” to be opened by mid May 2007.

The new society, which aim is to improve communication between Peljesac wine producers and its visitors and offer a better chance to get to know the local wine production, will be financed by variety of Peljesac and Dubrovnik tourist and local government organisations.

The future Museum of Wine in Putnikovici on Peljesac is also part of the same project.

Read more in related posts :
Peljesac Wine Roads
Peljesac Museum of Wine

Some good news about travel to Korcula for next summer - it seems new ferry catamaran line is going to be introduced!

The new ferry line will connect Dubrovnik with Island of Mljet, Korcula and Lastovo.

For time beeing my only information is that for July and August 2007 there will be four (4) times a week ferry catamaran sailing from Dubrovnik to Mljet, Korcula and Lastovo and vice-versa, as well as additiona two (2) times a week catamaran ferry sailing directly from Dubrovnik to Korcula and back.

This is very good news for people who?will fly to Dubrovnik Airport to visit South Dalmatian islands…

Stay tuned for more info, details and timetable as soon as it’s published…

I was browsing through my video footage of last summer in Korcula, and found a section that I missed earlier.
It took me some time to work out how to encode the videos according to new technologies and after a bit of fiddling, I (successfully!) uploded two new short video clips of Korcula!

Have a look at these links :

1/ Afternoon on the beach in Korcula, Croatia - lazy afternoon on local beach, summer 2006

2/ Water Polo Players in Korcula, Croatia - local kids playing waterpolo in Korcula’s Harbour - summer 2006

I hope you like it - Enjoy!

According to Vjesnik, the daily newspaper from Croatia, the beginning of building work on Peljesac Bridge is expected to begin at about the same time as the opening of road section of Dugopolje-Sestanovac.

The international tender, set my The Ministry of Sea, Tourism, Transportation and Development of Croatia, will be announced within a next month. The tender will last about 6 weeks.

If all happeneds according to the plan, Peljesac Bridge will be in full function by 2010.

Read more about Peljesac Bridge.

According to the latest figures for 2006 announced today by The Agency for ferry transport of Croatia (Agencija za obalni linijski pomorski promet), the ferry catamaran line Korcula - Hvar - Split achieved the highest growth in ferry traffic in Croatia.

The official 2006 statistics for this ferry line shows growth of 28.2% in comparison to 2005, with the rest of the ferry lines way beyond this one.

Following this announcement, it is really good that we are getting a new vessel that will from May serve this line, as it will shurely improve comfort at this popular 3 hrs sail.

Thinking about this, I wonder which kind of statistics would we see if equivalet daily fast ferry line Dubrovnik-Mljet-Korcula was ever introduced ?!

I bet this would beat current figures.

However, it will probably never happened

The main reason for that, in my humble opinion, is the fact that connections between Dubrovnik, Mljet and Korcula makes loads of money to companies that for years (since communist times) run day trips from Dubrovnik to Korcula and Mljet, and vice-versa, charging rediculous sums for tickets.

Of course - it is not in their interest to kill the gold mine.

I trully hope I am wrong in saying this and that next year I will blog about brand new statistics…

C’mon Kalmeta, do something about this!

The latest addition to our Korcula Old Photos Album is this panorama of Korcula Old Town taken from Novi Puti above the Old Town.

It is estimated this photo was taken sometimes in early 1930’s.

The photo shows two ships leaving/ arriving in Korcula harbour, which I find unusual as I was under impression Korcula was pretty slow and isolated town at the time (?) Or… am I missing something?

Click to see large photo

Marco Polo Fest - The international festival of music and wine that takes place evey summer in Korcula, is going to happened again next summer for 12th times. The dates for your diary are 20.7. to 22.7.2007.

The Festival will take place at Kor?ula’s Summer stage.

If you would like to take part at the festival, please phone or fax +385 20 711 010, mobile phone +385 91 5136234.

If you can not make it for July, this year, Marko Polo Festival will also take place in Vukovar, Slavonia, between 20.09 and 23.09.07, so September could be your choice.

For more info, please visit Marco Polo Festival’s home page : http://www.marcopolofest.hr