Last Days on Island Hvar

We finally made it to the beach Wednesday of last week on Island Hvar, we went to Island Parmezana, just about 34 minutes from Hvar, removing ourselves farther from civiliazation...anway it was much lovlier than the other island and the weather was great for a good three hours. Matt and I got lovelz Mediterranean tans this day, yes you should be jealous! We laid out and went into hte ocean even though it was very cold, once you get in it is great but still very chilly. If thie sun is out you just cannot do it! After this we went back and did kind of nothing...made some chicken and mashed potatoes for dinner. The next day we went to the city of Stari Grad, on the other side of the island, it was supposed to be much better and more youthful than Hvar Town. It was mujch like the other city though, in fact we ended up playing even more gin rummy and doing nothing in a little cafe. It was cold. We ran into a girl our age from California, she said we hit the island about 3 or 4 weeks too late, that all the life had drained out of hte island becasue it was not warm anymore. The thing is, even with all the life and people, we cannont afford to eat out at the fancy places and whatever, we saw the club that Paris Hitlon (gag me) went to , called CArpe Denim, it was soooo expensive and not even that cool. I just would not recommend this place for the backpacker types or the people who like easy going places...it seemed a good place for people with a lot of money and boring...Stari Grad was not exciting but at least something different to do. the next day we came back to Stari Grad to catch yet another overnight ferry to Rijeka to see the family again, and the boat was so much worse than last time, the wather in Croatia has been quite turbelent, the jugo, or south wind, has been driving a ton of storms all up and down the coast. It was stormy at sea and I wish I had some dramamine...I never travel by boat and I did about 20 times in 12 days so it was just a new thing, but this boat ride was awful! Rocking back and forth, doors slamming open and closed because of hte motion of the boat, I literally felt sick, tried ti sleep, it was terrible! It took 2 hours to get from STari Grad to Split, we spent about one hour in Split for a dinner break and get off the damn boat, and I saw there was a little restaurant called Babic, so we busted our butts to get there, it was nothing special, it was just a litle fast food joint but we still got some crappy pizza and got back on the boat for a rocky road back to Rijeka!! We played MORE cards and drank a bottle of wine...oh my I almost forgot about on Stari Grad, we did poke our noses into some odd churches and cobblestone streets which were quite quaint and charming, and Matt felt like he had to talk to the locals :) This resulted in us trying all of this terrible I mean TERRIBLE homemade alcohol, Matt tried shots of schnapps and other crap, ugh it was so bad, I said Matt now you have tried too much you must buy SOMETHING so he bought this bottle of wine, and as I sit here he is sharing a glass with the girl we are couchsurfing with and they cannont drink it anymore because it is terrible. It was a good experience and really funny and interesting becasue they let us into their house to try some wine and other bad liquors, but we couldnt understnad each other at all and the wine literally was like really old vinegar, we just acted kind of like we liked it, terrible!! But really funny. Island Hvar ended up being a dissapointment because it had been built up to be something awesome and really wasnt...but oh well maybe just going at a different time would be better, who knows? Ah well! BEST THING ABOUT ISLAND HVAR: The day at Palmezana, the mediterranean tan WORST THING: Dont even want to go there