APPRECIATION BY KING

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19100, 22 August 1936, Page 5

APPRECIATION BY KING

YUGOSLAV COURTESY CRUISE IN YACHT NAHLIN (British Official Wireless.) Reed, noon. RUGBY, Aug. 21. King Edward, who landed from the yacht Nahlin at Kotor, Montenegro, last evening, has sent a cordial message of thanks to the authorities in Belgrade for all that has been done in connection with his visit to the Dalmatian coast. To-day the King visited Corfu. During ' the day he received King George of Greece on board the Nahlin at Corfu. A cordial interview lasted for over an hour. King Edward will dine with King George at the Villa MibeJJi. The Cyprus Association at Athens has asked King "Edward to visit. Cyprus. CHARM OF DALMATIA BEAUTY OF COASTLINE WHITE TOWNS; BLUE SEAS The Dalmatian coast, along which King Edward has been cruising in the yacht Nahlin, offers a greater variety of romantic scenery -than any other in Europe. The comparative scarcity of broad sandy beaches in Dalmatia which the .flatter Italian coastline across the Adriatic enjoys is more than compensated for by the colouring and wild outline of the coast. Mountainous .to the north-and continuing along a line of jagged cliffs to the beautiful fjord of Kotar—or Bocche de Cattarp—in the south, its' chief characteristic is the archipelago of innumerable islands of all shapes and sizes stretching from Fittmd to Dubrovhik (Ragusa). . ! , ', ._. There is no coastal railway. Communication is chiefly by modern pleasure steamers which thread their way in and out of the islands.

It is a land, above all, of beautiful colour. Between, the-deep blue of the sky and the deeper blue of the sea are the stony purple cliffs towards the Dinaiic Alps. There lias been little vegetation since the pirates of Venice, centuries ago, cut down the primeval forests, after which the rains washed the soil int.o the ocean. BRITONS POPULAR.

Out of the' deep sea rise white towns, for marble is used as freely in such places as Split (Spalato) and Dubrovnik as in Venice. The architecture is largely and palms and cacti grow everywhere in profusion.

The Jugoslav national dross in Dalmatia adds to the bright colouring of nature. Vivid contrasting scarlets and blues are the principal note. For bathing, boating, yachting and, above all, sun-bathing, the coast is years that English people have discovered this .land which has always been the Mecca of Central European holiday-makers. The sea is buoyant and almost nontidal. There are small but splendid sand beaches for bathing and some pebble beaches. Duhfovnik is, perhaps, the most exclusive centre. But the whole district is too unspoilt as yet to incur the risk of being labelled "fashionable." British people have become extremely popular through the annual event of the season—the visit of ships from the Mediterranean Fleet.