Have lunch at Meneghello Place ( www.palmizana.hr), a family-run artists' retreat with villas and bungalows dotted around subtropical gardens.

WSJ: Island-Hopping in Sweden, the BVIs, Washington State and Croatia

Eat lunch at Konoba Roki's ( rokis.hr), a rural retreat owned by a local winemaker, where specialties include smoked eel and octopus under peka.

WSJ: Island-Hopping in Sweden, the BVIs, Washington State and Croatia