Hello from Bol

i family... Again... Writingto you now fromthe town of Bol, which is on the island of Brac. I don't know how ppl keep writing journals ... This is so time consuming, but i know you all enjoy it and I gess it's good for me to keep a record of it... Plus farhan is making me relax!! We are sitting on the villa's terrace, drinking lemonade, tea and coffee. The weather has been a little big mixed. The day we arrived it looked like a storm was still at korcula, and we were just ahead of it. Clouds were in the sky, but we never got rained on and when we arrived in Bol the sky had cleared up overhead so it was and sunny. We arrived at the villa by 1030am, but had to wait b/c our room want ready. We had arrived to the north of the island at Supetar, where the ferry dock is, and then took a taxi from there to south of the island to Bol. The taxi ride was scay fast, but whatever we got here quick and safely. The villa is amazing, I think a German women owns and runs it. It's all so clean, bathrooms sooo nice and our room faces the sea. The windows have these green shutters, not or sow, they actually work, but remind me of italian sea town architecture. I think Bol might look more like an Italian sea town than the other places we've been to. Has very narrow streets only one car fits and it's hilly, but Bol is quite small. You can walk along one length of the centre for alut 5-10 mins. Along the seaside are random small pebbly beaches, a monetary of sorts and generally this area is just very quiet. The famous part of Bol is this beach area called Zlatni Rat. If you google it, it should look like a s golden horn from up above. It's a strip of beach that has waves pushing st it left and right so it constantly makes this born shape, sometimes curled at the tip left or right.
So our first day on Bol, the day we arrived, we got settled in, got food, farhan took a nap, i took a short walk, and then we went walking looking for a place we could put our towels down and go for a swim. We decided to save Zlatni rat for another day b/c we knew it was already so busy from ppl being ferried over from neighboring islands like Hvar and korcula. We saw ppl walking endlessly towards the beach and in the distant on the water you can see all these tourist boats that look like pirate boats bringing ppl over. We eventually found a small pebbly beach beyond the monestary. It was busy, but we could still out our towels down. We played there for about an hour before going back to the villa to change and go for dinner. Nothing exciting, had some food, and then bed time. 

Today, we woke up, the villa provides breakfast. Just something simple like fresh fruit, coffee, tea, juice, and some type of eggs combo. It's nice b/c you sit on the terrace outside. Apparently it had rained overnight b/c where we hang our beach tiles outside, had been moved under some shade. We were thinking of going to Hvar on this exclusion boat. But you can see the clouds moving and apparently in the distance you can see rain or some moisture coming Down. Thought maybe a boat ride may not be so goodie case we couldn't get back on the boat back to Bol! Luckily, the weather looked a little clear,so we decided to go to the Zlatni rat beach. It's a 30 min walk, any to get to b/c the ground was paved (other times we walk to places in Croatia it's been a dirt path) oh ya the architecture here is built on limestone or shale, so buildins are white and grounds are limestone like. We got there early, around 10am, before the other tourist boats arrived w/ ppl from other islands. It was ssooooooooo niceeeee!!! The view is pretty cool from up a one, b/c you see it from above first before the ground slopes down towars the beach. The "sand" is small pebbly rocks, formed by the water moving over it. Oh ya side note, on the beach, you can hear the water rush over the pebbles, as it recedes and washes over the shore, it ,ales this high pitch sound, very interesting. Something I'll remember about this coastline. So when we got to the beach, it's quite large and there are beach chairs and umbrellas set up left and right of this pointy shape horn. Of course have to pay for chairs and u,Bella, which we did, but we were stupid, b/c it ended up cloudy and windy and w didn't even need umbrella although the chairs were nice b/c the ground is all pebbly. We took some photos, put down our towels and then got into the water. B/c the sun was out when we first got there, the water felt so warm and calm... Not a Lot of ppl were there yet. I remember floating backward, on my back in the water feeling very calm and peaceful...such a great sensation, just floating. We swam around, farhan went looking for dish, he has goggles and oh ya tons of small fish here, while I floated around. Eventually more ppl arrived, the weather started changing, the sky clouded over and eventually we left. Good thing we did b/c it started spitting rain nd eventually full on rain while we walked back into the main centre. On our walk we had passed a resort hotel, which I guess is where a lot of ppl are staying b/c we noticed at night a lot of ppl around, it during the day this place is really calm... Anyway, on this walk also saw a Tennis centre!!!! It had a lot of clay courts, I went into the players office to inquire about lessons. Unfortunately I did not. Ring my shoes /c I thought oh I won't play and shoes take up so much room... Ya I am wrong, pre vacation thinking so different than on vacation thinking!! Farhan says next time he'll just bring my stuff regardless of what I say haha so sweet. Newsy they don't do shoe rentals only racquet so no playing tennis on red clay courts for me. It's ok, tomorrow will be all Day on the water, as it's out last full day here. We saw bicycle water boats that have built In mini slides on These things so we might paddle out into the water and play on that. After our morning on beach we just took it easy, and relaxed on the terrace, and the beach side lounge bars.

Ok I go now. Tomorrow is our last day. Will be all about playing in the water!!!
Haha I can hear the cats meow....
Love you all,
Helen