“Marco.” “Polo.” These are two words that travellers might expect to hear when lounging at hotel pools as children play the popular water tag game. Hearing “Marco Polo” while walking the cobblestone ...

A FAMILY connection leads Greg Stolz to an idyllic island off the Dalmatian coast. Then there are places like Racisce, part of Korcula, one of 1185 islands in Croatia and reputedly the birthplace of ...

Unforgettable Croatia has launched a new wave campaign with savings of up to £380 per cabin on select departures in 2026. The ...

I’m all for teaching children a few foreign words on holiday... but I had to work extra hard on ­pronunciation for this trip. Not least with the local wines. My vowel-mangling at dinner meant that ...

Croatians use the word fjaka to describe the neutral state they adopt to deal with noisy, unwanted thoughts. I would suggest that Korcula, known as one of the most relaxing islands on the Dalmatian ...

LUMBARDA, Croatia, June 24 – Archaeologist Mate Parica was examining satellite images of Croatia’s coastline when he spotted something unusual. “I thought: maybe it is natural, maybe not,” said Parica ...

So, how far would you go for a drink? I journeyed to a land of scorpions and castrated goats on the trail of a strange beverage called ‘Grk’. It is a wine with no vowels, grown on vines that have no ...