Bravo Company, Hvar

Today is our first full day on the island of Hvar. We will be here for 2 more nights before heading off to Brac (Bol) and then our final destination of Split.

I've posted a few of the pictures of what we saw as the ferry rounded the bend and Hvar came into view. I know I/we keep saying it, but the pictures are never going to be able to fully ever give you an understanding of how amazing these islands are! We just don't have nearly the appreciation for history just based on our sheer lack of stuff like what we've seen. Wow!

By now you've seen the picture of the beach party we experienced from the ferry when we arrived on the island of Hvar. That club is Carpe Diem and it is supposed to be THE place to go to have fun. We plan to go for today's beach party from 5-7. Should be a great time! We hope so anyway.

We arrived last night around 7 p.m. and although we were extremely tired, we still managed to rally and went out. We were all feeling pretty blah until we were passed by a group of guys who right away yelled out "Bravo!" and broke out clapping. Talk about an ego boost. Hvar has an area that goes around the water that has lots of little shops and restaurants. Very much again like the feel of South Beach. Everyone faces the walkway just so they won't miss seeing something. Dozens of boats are docked along the waterwall too, many of which are obviously super expensive. A few were drawing crowds of tourists.

We tried to go to Carpe Diem just to see how the night vibe was and were in line for about 10 minutes before we gave up. Now let me just say that for some reason over here the concept of line pretty much doesn't exist. Everyone just groups together and it is very annoying actually. At Carpe Diem it was pretty much like the door staff was picking people out of the crowd. We didn't feel like waiting and walked along the water to find another hot spot. This place has some of the most beautiful people we've seen yet. I think we got dizzy trying to keep up with all there was to see. Ha... we ended up at a place called Nautico, and then another small spot that I can't remember the name of, and finally went to some club (again the name escapes me) that is housed in a transformed church/fortress thing up on the hill. It was huge and super cool! We were tired though so were only out until about 230. Some of us though rolled in much later than that. To protect the innocent, no names will be used. I also think at some point Katie and I got married to Italian guys but I can't be sure...

I think tonight we are going to try the beach party at Carpe Diem, get a good dinner, and then go out. I love this place!!!

The great thing about our trip so far is that every place we've been to has been different from the one before it. We are truly getting our money's worth! Just FYI... the exchange rate right now here is about 5.6 kuna to every one US dollar. Figuring out our dinner bills has been an education for sure.

More later... hope you are all well. It is 7 am your time...