September 10, 2020 - Three days ago, the news that Beyonce and Jay-Z were in Croatia resonated with the public, and although they left our country two days ago, photos of their stay on the island of Vrnik have only now started leaking.
As Tportal reports, yesterday the owners of a restaurant on the island of Vrnik boasted on Instagram about a photo with one of the most famous and influential couples in the world. They are, of course, Beyonce and Jay-Z, and they enjoyed the delicacies of their restaurant and posed with the owners in front of the church on the island.
Beyonce was reportedly delighted with the church located on the islet, and the picture shows that the couple was in a good mood. The owners of the restaurant wrote in the description of the photo that they were "BEYond excited to share this epic memory". And who wouldn’t be?
Fans who stumbled upon them by chance on Vrnik were also excited to see them, and some of them described their experiences in the comments below the photo on Instagram.
One fan wrote:
“It was a bit of a shock to walk around the corner from the beach with 4 tourists on the island and turn the corner to‘ try ’to get another drink and seeing them sat down,” adding the hashtag “thecarters”.
Another fan wrote:
“I couldn’t believe my eyes when I saw them! Made my holiday even more exciting. Can’t wait to return next year! Oh and the rose wine was lovely. I’ll have the Beyonce please.”
The restaurant has been very professional with the response about the visit of the Carter family, noting that they want to respect their right to privacy, which is the reason why stars, when it comes to keeping their privacy, often choose Croatia. All the other guests who were there at the time did the same, which is why Beyonce and Jay-Z will surely come back.
While the two enjoyed lunch together, their children, three-year-old twins Rumi and Sir and eight-year-old Blue Ivy, returned to the superyacht Lana with the nannies.
Beyonce, Jay-Z and their daugther Blue Ivy on holiday in Croatia / Screenshot Total Croatia News
The famous couple arrived in Croatia on September 1, when they landed at Dubrovnik Airport, after which they went on a yacht and enjoyed first the Dubrovnik and then the Korčula archipelago.
It was heard that Beyonce was staying in Croatia a day later, on September 2, when TCN journalist Iva Tatić heard rumors and managed to photograph the yacht Lana, which, as it turned out, Beyonce and Jay-Z rented to sail the Adriatic.
Yach Lana at the Korčula archipelago / Screenshot Total Croatia News
Four days later, on September 5, it was revealed that Beyonce celebrated her 39th birthday on the Croatian island of love Galešnjak, known for its heart-shaped shape.
Even though their entire stay in Croatia was shrouded in secrecy, they were seen on the Kornati islands too, where they ate in a restaurant on the island of Žut. As Zadarski reports, they were alone on the terrace surrounded by numerous bodyguards who were vigilant to ensure that no one approached them or tried to record them with a mobile phone, and thus disturbed their stay in the restaurant.
Regardless of that, a few fans still managed to photograph them, which was, after the photo of a yacht Lana, a proof that they were indeed staying in Croatia.
After an eight-day stay on the Adriatic, the family ended their vacation on Tuesday, September 8, when they disembarked on the mainland and headed to Dubrovnik Airport, from where they went to America.
For some local caterers, such as restaurant owners on the islands of Vrnik and Žut, but also for the happy fans who saw them, their visit certainly marked this very different 2020 season and they will remember it with a smile, for sure.
Even though the primary purpose of a vacation is to relax and forget about your usual daily routine, we still hold on to our smartphones in bars and on beaches. We like to keep tabs on what other people are doing on their holidays, we check our e-mails... it's hard to force yourself to get off the grid these days.
Here's an idea: how about you start small? Put your phone on airplane mode for an hour or two and relax with a book. Small paperbacks in multiple languages are available in all bookstores and on most newsstands in Croatia, and if you're more the digital type, an e-reader won't take up a lot of space in your beach bag. If by any chance you end up on Ugljan island this summer, even better: from July 15 to September 15, everyone who visits Kali town on Ugljan will have a chance to check-out books for free from the first beach library in Croatia.
The Public Library Kali came up with a wonderful project a couple of months ago. Called 'Sve (knjige) ćeš na siki nuajti' (local dialect for 'you'll find all the books on the reef'), the beach libraries are devised as three wooden structures shaped like lifeguard towers that will be installed on the beaches of Batalaža, Mul and Luka. Shelves packed with books will be within the reach of all beach-goers free of charge, and will be available to check out between 8 AM and 8 PM.
Local librarian Marta Kolega said she hopes both Kali residents and tourists will like the project. Little beach libraries will be filled with summer literature, mostly crime and romance novels, books for children, but you'll also find an occasional classic if you're the type that likes to enjoy something more serious even on vacation.
"Apart from enjoying the written word, the project aims to prolong the lives of books, as all the novels we plan to offer in small beach libraries, and there are 320, were written off from the Public Library Kali, meaning they were headed for the waste paper bins. We decided to give them new lives", explained Kolega. As the books were written of from the library fund anyway, the new users will have the options to put the book back on the shelf, keep it if they particularly liked it, or pass it on to friends, relatives and loved ones.
Kali is known as the only town with a library on Ugljan island, while the other inhabited places are visited twice a month by a bibliobus coming from the Zadar City Library.
The beach library project proposal was applied to the donation contest Kajo Dadić called 'Our Contribution to the Community', and had Jakov Kolega doing the 3D model of the library in its planned environment. Sadly, the project wasn't adopted as part of the contest, but the young book enthusiasts on Kali couldn't be discouraged that easily. They're the living proof it only takes a bit of courage and a lot of good will to make a great idea come to life!
Beach libraries are already a well-known concept world-wide. The popular beach La Romaniquette near Marseille in southern France is known for a library that has three sheltered spots for reading, and a beach at the Albena resort on the coast of Black Sea in Bulgaria has a beach library with 6000 books in 15 languages.
Congratulations to the team from Kali – here's hoping the concept spreads all over the coast by next year!
Source: Morski.hr