Hvar

Hvar has three things I love: great swimming, old ruins, and... lots of Irish people? Wait a minute.

OK, so I enjoyed the fortress on the hill; it has a museum inside with an exhibit of items that were reclaimed from shipwrecks and old marine maps. The swimming was great and the people laid back and friendly, though I mostly met people from Britain and Ireland and Australia there. I also went to a concert at the Franciscan chapel. It was worth it for the atmosphere if nothing else (opera isn't really my bag; I'd been hoping for some good old Klapa).

I stayed two nights and then took a ferry to Dubrovnik.