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For an additional £50 per day you can employ the expertise of a

For an additional £50 per day, you can employ the expertise of a skipper to guide you to the hidden coves and swimming spots around the islands. It also offers a two-week learning-to-sail course, which costs £890 per person including flights, transfers and accommodation on board.For those who prefer lounging on deck, or would rather not spend part of their holiday learning how to sail, there is a skippered yacht charter, or a cruise, on board a Dalmatian “old timer”, an old-fashioned sailing boat which resembles a gullet.Explore Worldwide (01252 760000, worldwide ) offers an eight-day Dalmatian Island Cruise travelling and sleeping on board one. The cruise island hops between the islands of Vis, Lastovo, Mljet, Korcula, Scedro and Hvar and there are weekly departures throughout July, August and September. The price of £615 per person includes return flights, accommodation on a half-board basis and all transfers.Bosmere Travel (01473 831518) also offers a cruise on a vintage Dalmatian sailing ship.

A seven-night holiday, starting in Split and visiting the island of Mljet, Sipan and the walled city of Dubrovnik, costs from £250 each The price includes half-board but excludes flights. Other routes are available.Seafarer (01732 229900, ) operates yacht and bareboat (ie without the crew) charters from £609 per person per week, based on six sharing. Top Yacht (0870 870 5262, ) also offers bareboat charters from £1,330 per week for a 34ft yacht in August. You can employ a skipper or a hostess for an additional cost.By Aoife O’Riordain The FactsGetting thereReturn flights with Croatian Airlines (020-8563-0022; croatiaairlines ) to Split or Dubrovnik cost £261.70 in July.Being thereDalmatian and Istrian Travel Bureau (020-8749 5255) offers a week in a villa in Korcula from £439 per person, based on two sharing, including return flights and transfers. Breakfast can be provided for £5 per head.Further informationCroatian tourist office (020-8563 7979; )..

You might think Neanderthal man is the annoying chap that lives next door to you and plays his heavy metal CDs at Spinal Tap volume at 3am, but you’d be wrong. He’s alive and well but he has a German passport and lives in a pretty woodland village outside Dusseldorf. If that’s the case, then he’s got a twin brother who clamped my car last weekIt most definitely is the case And stop being facetious. I’m sure you knew that Neanderthal man was an early type of human but I’d never quite taken on board how he got his name. I somehow thought it was a period of prehistory, like the Jurassic era.