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From The Independent, 22nd October 2008
What makes Croatia so appealing is that it appears to have cornered all the best bits of every other European country. The historic walled towns and red-roofed villages of Italy rub shoulders with the quaint harbours of Greece, the dramatic mountains bordering the coast are reminiscent of southern Spain and the marinas filled with expensive yachts are dead ringers for those of Mediterranean France.
With its convulsive past and rugged coastline - a thousand islands spraying from it like a meteor trail - Dalmatia offers a dizzying combination of history and sun-drenched beaches. Rocky beaches, true, but with unrivalled settings. Take Bacvice Bay (beach 1) just 10 minutes' walk from Ana and Miki's Guesthouse, ideally located in Split's charming, higgledy-piggledy sidestreets.
Everybody's talking about Hvar. Condé Nast Traveller voted the island one of the 10 most beautiful in the world. The Croatian National Tourist board has promoted it as "the Mediterranean as it once was". Western journalists, creeping back to Dalmatia after the war in the former Yugoslavia, have deemed it the "Balkan Cannes". The first word is ill-chosen, considering Croatia's return to independence and a reluctance to be lumped together with its neighbours. The second, Cannes, relates to escalating prices, a growing exclusivity, and harbours with luxury yachts: Roman Abram-ovich, Bill Gates and Formula One's Bernie Ecclestone among the owners. Hvar has come of age.
From The Independent, 22nd October 2008 
