The onboard flavours are far beyond a cruise offering, securing Freedom’s culinary prowess
The cobbled limestone streets and calm walkways of the Croatian island of Hvar glimmer in the afternoon sun. It’s as if the limestone here is polished each morning before the next boatful of visitors meander around the complex network of narrow avenues, taking in the town’s curious architecture, which is typically Dalmatian – a synthesis of the Renaissance and early Baroque styles. Balconies fit for Juliet are crammed with flowery shrubs that spill down onto the awnings of the shops below, or dangle over the tables of eateries squeezed into nooks off the town’s complex network of passageways.
Life here is unflustered and slow – perhaps because everyone in Hvar has arrived by boat, many of which sit stern-to along
