“Yes, Dalmacija is very beautiful area, but it is a craft beer desert.”
Crni, the owner of Zagreb’s X Bar and Horvati Pub, told me to contact him if I came to Croatia’s Dalmatian Coast. He had a family house in Vodice, a seaside town an hour and half east of Zadar. After a year stuck in Zagreb struggling to keep his businesses afloat throughout the COVID pandemic, he was finally taking a much-deserved holiday with his family.
I took an hour-long bus from Zadar to Sibenik. Vodice was about halfway between the cities. Crni and I coordinated a meeting at a gas station on the outskirts of Vodice where the bus stopped. The bus was almost 20 minutes late. I panicked when I got out. His car, with an “easy to see” car-top carrier, was nowhere.
And I had no phone service in Croatia.
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