Dear Barbara and Andrew:
Barb, as far as I know we will le leaving from Frankfurt to get to New York and we will be seeing Fritz in either Munich or West Berlin but I will definitely know when I get to Hvar because we are waiting to hear from Heidi. Korcula is beautiful, old and quaint.
30June1971
Today the wind blows. It is dull and cool. We had planned to go to a fishing village at the other end of the island but with no sun what is the point. So we will go into town and see the museum. We have had one day of rain off and on otherwise it has been lovely. The beach is rocky here. They have huge slabs of cement to lie on. I am very tanned but today it is cold enough to wear slacks and a sweater. What a change from Greece! I twisted my ankle a few days ago ankle so I was flat on my back for a coupler of days. The doctor did pay me a visit.
Andy is your tooth fixed? Did you put that money in the bank. I hope so. How is your cooking going. I hope you are fine and I think about you often and hope you are getting to your appointments. As soon as I know our address in Brac I will send it to you and write right away. Andy please keep our letters. Rob writes in his dairy every day. It will give you a laugh.
Today we take some empty wine bottles down to the place the locals take their plastic jugs to get filled with wine. There is only sterilized milk on the shelves and I can’t get Rob to try it. Like Greece the bread here is coarse. We have read all our books and there are no English-speaking tourists here so no one to exchange them with. Rob is out in the ocean with his speargun often. He bought a Russian speargun powered by cartridges. He also has a ghastly looking octopus lure and a fishing line. If only the water would calm down he might catch an octopus.
Unlike Greece there are only a few hippies here (maybe a dozen). Maybe the season has just begun.
The diet is about the same as last year on the Greek islands. We have meat and bread and cheese for breakfast. The women in town are excellent cooks. They never seem to have the foods you ask for. The restaurants are government run so they don’t care either just like in the stores and post office. The people are very surly here. They think we are Americans. I would not like to live behind the Iron Curtain. The stores have few goods in them. Not much in the food shops either but there is always a good supply of wine. It is very cheap. A pack of cigarettes cost 22 cents.
There are palm trees outside our window.
Supetar, Brac Island
We just retuned from the museum but there is not much in it as this is a tiny town. There was a big turret in the port when we disembarked. A huge Yugoslav flag was on top of the turret with a big hammer and sickle. Tito speaks from the top of the turret when he is here.
We bought some sweet cherry tomatoes, cucumbers, meat rolls and some oranges and ate them on a bench overlooking the harbour. We are becoming European. I also bought some laundry detergent to wash our clothes. Rob has gone fishing again and I will find him later. We bought tickets to a folklore concert for tonight and that ought to be fun. It will be held in an outdoor theatre. We met a French couple here. He is an oceanographer with Jacques Cousteau. He is travelling with an Austrian FAIRY who massaged my ankle and he loves Robert and keeps on patting him!
30June
The concert was good. We leave tomorrow.
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