A Bolto out of the Blue

Day 14 (Tuesday)

It was very hot this morning so we decided to delay exploring the town until later on in the morning when it would be even hotter and spent rather longer than we should have done over our morning coffee.

Stari Grad is Hvar's second city.  It's full of little side streets and alleyways to explore.  The 16th century poet Petar Hektorovic used to live and work here.  His most famous work is "Fishing and Fisherman's Conversations" the first work of autobiographical realism in Croatian literature.  He seemed like a nice chap or wanted the poor to be treated with  bit of dignity.  We wondered who was because our ferry to and from Vis was named after him.

Having explored the town we set off to spend the rest of the afternoon on the beach then left our sunbathing early to do some laundry as we had noticed that people were avoiding us.

When Tracey was hanging out the washing to dry, Bolto's wife seemed most disturbed by the sight of our smalls draped over the front garden wall.  She went to her apartment and re-appeared with a clothes dryer for us - how kind.

As Tracey had been washing all afternoon I decided to treat her to a meal out.  After our meal we went for a walk along the harbour side (Riva) and noticed a chap waving frantically at us, It was Bolto and Mrs Bolto.  We told him that we had just had a lovely meal of fish once we had remembered what fish was in French.  At the sound of the word 'poisson' Mrs Bolto dug her husband in the ribs and jabbered something to him.  Bolto then proceeded to translate everything she had said from Croatian into French so that we could understand (not).  We all ended up nodding and saying 'tres bon'.

Now we think we've agreed to one of the following:

• A night of fishing with Bolto
• An evening fish supper with Bolto and Mrs Bolto at their apartment
• An evening fish supper at our apartment for Bolto and Mrs Bolto
• or anything else fish related.

We returned to our apartment and got ready for bed when there was a knock at the door...