Croatia

The walls at first light with your guide; by evening you blend your own gin.

Your boat idles over a Ston oyster farm; lunch comes straight off the ropes.

Skip-line entry into the Blue Grotto, then Komiža and a rock-walled swim.

North to Istria: a truffle hunt near Buzet with a third-generation family and their dogs, then Grožnjan’s galleries and a winery in Vižinada.

A private boat out of Rovinj to the Brijuni Islands, swimming off empty coves; Pula’s arena on the way home.