MARCO POLO ON KORČULA

We got the car ferry from Split, in Croatia, to one of the off-lying islands, Korčula, which is where Marco Polo came from. Funny - I thought he was Irish, his name sounding the way it does. It’s nearly a 3-hour voyage. Passing between the islands of Hvar and Vis, the ferry was buzzed by a nudist standing up in a rubber boat. Or was it an inflatable?






This is thought to be Marco Polo's house:-



Lyons Maid in China: the Marco Polo Connection

Marco Polo was born in Korčula town and while we were there a small pageant was held in honour of his return from China in, I think, 1286. There are a couple of pictures above. On our way to the pageant, we passed an ice-cream parlour advertising ice-creams to a recipe brought back by Marco Polo himself from China. Here is a photo of me holding Ruth’s tiramisu flavoured cornet and mine which has the original ice-cream flavour brought all the way from China by Marco. It’s a wonder it didn’t melt on the overland journey. Can you tell which one it is?

In case you are wondering, it tasted delicious. Well worth his being a wafer so long.




By the way, the white marks on the tree are chewing gum. It wasn't the only tree in Korcula which had been thus decorated. Why?