Croatia – Flung

Exploring Croatia’s Wine Country with Fresh Eire Adventures’ Padraic Doorey

Sarah Stodola — Fri, 27 Jan 2017 19:58:28 +0000

Last September, I joined tour guide extraordinaire Padraic Doorey on a “bike and sail” trip he was leading through the Croatian Adriatic for his company, Fresh Eire Adventures. We lived for the week on a beautiful wooden sailboat, and spent our days exploring the land largely via bike. It was during this time, hopping from impossibly gorgeous island to impossibly gorgeous island, that I got a close-up view of the gruffly charming, arcadian wineries that dot both the islands and […]

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The 5 Top Spots in Croatia’s Adriatic Sea

Sarah Stodola — Thu, 27 Oct 2016 16:50:42 +0000

I had the good fortune recently to spend a week floating among the islands of Croatia as a guest of Fresh Eire Adventures, an Irish outfit that runs bespoke bike tours throughout the world. The company’s owner, Padraic Doorey, led this “Bike and Sail” trip and brought his trove of knowledge about food and wine with him. (You can check out Flung’s Instagram for more images from the trip itself, including the exquisite Tajna Mora sailboat that served as home […]

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The Bura: The Wind that Has Its Way with Croatia

Sarah Stodola — Tue, 11 Oct 2016 13:09:56 +0000

I was sitting on the deck of a rather exquisite wooden sailboat called the Tajna Mora. It was early afternoon in the port of a town called Vis, on an island also called Vis, in Croatia, and I was waiting to leave. We’d been scheduled to set off that morning, but as afternoon set in we continued docking, thwarted in our departure by a phenomenon we could not see, or sense at all. While the harbor was calm as could be, […]

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