A Little Island Called Brac!

A Ferry Ride to Brac, a Journey to Skrip on the Island, and Olive Oil Pressing.  Felt like we were home, riding a ferry for about 40 minutes. The water was much bluer than that of the Salish Sea at home!  The sun shone bright and it was so nice breathing the fresh salt air!

Got to the island and headed about 30 minutes up to Skrip.  The Limestone used to build the White House, yes our country’s White House, came from Skrip.  We started with a visit to the Brac Museum and a curator, who was so animated and passionate about what she does there, which made it all the more fun as she described the history of the place… and it’s a LONG history! 

When we finished there, we went to what was described as an Olive Oil Museum.  Pretty much, a family who has owned the same land and olive trees for over three hundred years.  And, yes, many of the same trees!  The soil here is so rocky and on hillsides, that all olives are harvested by hand, no fancy machines that shake the trees to release the olives!  They had some of the old equipment… Stone and Wood used to press the olives!  Lots of boring work back then for sure, today, they do have a modern electric press!  Back to the rocks here… even the roof shingles are flat slate type rocks… now that’s a lot of rocks!

Had another meal of…. LAMB… Tough, chewy, but not really fatty… I thanked God for little blessings like that, less fat.  Only ate about a third of it.  I’m sorta done with lamb I think!  Great wine, cheese, prosciutto and BREAD… yummy homemade.  All meals are very long and slow here, just as in most of Europe.  Makes for lots of fun conversations, so it’s not bad at all!

Tomorrow we leave for Dubrovnik, by way of Bosnia… weird… we will only be traveling a very short distance in that country, as they have a very small 12 miles of coastline that actually separates Croatia.  Can’t wait to learn about that!

Jerry, he can talk and talk and talk....

Look at all the stones

That flower is not photo-shopped to appear bright colored... it really was!

Hundreds of years old oil press

From BC, found on the island in the Roman Quarries

The original developers of the Olive Trees on the land... 

and their great, great, great, great grandaughter!

 Stone roof shingles

 Hows this?  Toy guns for sale at the tourist markets!!!!