Another attempt at sailing weekend

May 1st is national holiday and it's a good time to plan for longer weekend or shorter holiday. Especially if the weather is nice. This year it wasn't. The forecast was promising everything - from sun, rain, wind from 0 to 40 knots to a wide array of temperatures. We still decided to drive to Krk and make the most of it. After all, captain and me worked hard all last Aprils weekend to rebuild the stairs, clean the anchor winch motor and repair the toilet and it was time to test-drive everything.

We left Zabnica on Thursday morning, but we didn't drive to Krk directly, first we stopped in Piran, where there was Faberge exhibition in a beautiful Venetian villa.

I was lucky to see some of the imperial eggs on exhibition in Dubrovnik several years ago and although the artefacts here were not imperial I was still amazed of all the details and beautiful enamel.

This one is for the captain...

... and this one for me (because of the frog - in translation the name of our village would be Froggville)

When we were walking through the pretty Piran the weather was still nice (Faberge exhibition was in the red house).

When we reached Krk, we decided to go into the cave called Biserujka (aka Pearl cave - people believe there are some pirate treasure hidden there). The weather got worse, so being under ground was even more pleasant than above.

Next day we took Heron out of the bay.

We only sailed a couple of miles to the next bay, weather got worse again so we stayed mostly inside the boat. I went rowing for a while and it was really nice, can't wait to do it again in nice weather. We returned to the bay in the evening and even saw couple of dolphins on the way.

Next day we drove around the island with car and ended in a beautiful town of Vrbnik, with tiny streets of stone houses, small doors, green porches and balconies...

The day ended with a delicious meal in one of Vrbnik restaurant, with a bottle of local wine Blatina, of course.

On Sunday we thoroughly cleaned the boat and drove home on early afternoon. And so it was again not a sailing holiday. I'm refusing to return to the boat until I have a warranty of a nice weather and some wind! There were enough weekends full of boat projects and rainy and cold days spent inside the boat.