A Little Bit of Heaven

After we left Dubrovnik the plan was to just drive, poke around and see what we discovered. We gawked at the beautiful Dalmatian coastline northwest of Dubrovnik and eventually decided to turn off on a road that headed down a peninsula. The first village we came to was teeny tiny Mali Ston which had a great old wall that looks like the Great Wall of China going up over a huge steep hillside. There were a lot of little fruit stands there and vineyards all over the countryside so we thought we might be onto something. We continued to drive and considered driving further down to Orebic and then catching a ferry that would have eventually taken us back to the mainland but further down the road from where we left off. But we soon came upon a sign that pointed the way to Trstenik on an off-road. So we decided that just for fun we would go see what was there. We found heaven.
Trstenik has 60 people who live there year round and at the peak of the season has 200. We stopped at Restoran Feral right on the beach and Marko, our waiter, said he could not only fix us up with some freshly caught sea bass which he said he would fillet himself, a big platter of tomato salad that was so ripe they were almost stewed and he would hook us up with someone who had a room to rent. We were in love. So completely head over heels were we, we paid for three nights on the spot....no need to go any further looking for a better spot. It does not exist.