Tuesday, December 20, 2005

The other owner and captain is a good counterpoint to Francesco. Dimar is Croatian, and though I don’t think it’s a testimonial to the relative countenances of Croatians versus Italians, just as much as Francesco is carefree and unperturbed by anything, Dimar wears a permanent frown and is a self-described worry wart. About 30 years ago, at the age of 26, he left his home island of Korcula and went to Australia to make a better life. Now, he has a wonderful stone home overlooking an inlet bay in Korcula’s second largest city, Vera Luka and another home in Brisbane, and of course the gulet, upon which he plans to work half a year, the rest devoted to construction work back in Brisbane.

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