“Marco.” “Polo.” These are two words that travellers might expect to hear when lounging at hotel pools as children play the popular water tag game. Hearing “Marco Polo” while walking the cobblestone ...

I’m all for teaching children a few foreign words on holiday... but I had to work extra hard on ­pronunciation for this trip. Not least with the local wines. My vowel-mangling at dinner meant that ...

This beautiful island is rarely talked about but is home to some of the most stunning medieval architecture in the world. Korcula in Croatia boasts an old town that rivals Croatia's much more famous ...

The main street, Ulica Korčulanskog statuta, leads to St Mark’s Cathedral, one of the finest examples of Dalmatian church architecture and design. Taking three centuries to build, it features several ...

So, how far would you go for a drink? I journeyed to a land of scorpions and castrated goats on the trail of a strange beverage called ‘Grk’. It is a wine with no vowels, grown on vines that have no ...

When the ancient Greeks settled on the island of Korcula, they were so struck by its dense, dark forests that they called it Korkyra Melaina – Black Korčula. Now it's famed for its white wine (the ...

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