Island of Krk Croatia

The legal currency is Kuna. You can change euros on the island very easily.The change is approximately 7,30 kune.
If you want to avoid changing on the island you can acquire Kuna in your bank and you will probably wait for a few days.Even touht it seems to me that changing in my bank is less convenient.
You can change it also in Trieste, it is an idea to think about because it is very beatiful city, you can take a coffee on piazza Unità, visit the center, change some amount in kune, and proceed your trip for Croatia. On the island there are many places where you can change money: the most common is called Mjenjacnica, then there are banks, tourist offices.... for those more informatizated there are bancomates, the same as in Italy and other countries, you just have to insert your card with code and tell it how much money do you want, only one particular think you should think about how much it will cost you (it depends of your bank and the contract you have with it)
At the end, you can pay all in euro.

Foreign and local citizens can fish for sporting and recreational purposes if they have a permit which is obligatory for fishing from the coast or from the boat. Recreational-sport fishing permits daily catch of 5 kg of fish and other sea organisms, wich cannot be sold.
Permits can be obtained at branch-offices of Ministry of Agriculture and Foresty (Rijeka- Demetrova 3, Senj-Trg Cilnica 1) and authorized tourist agency.
Permits for recreational-sports fishing both for Croatian and foreign citizens can be issued for:
one day 60 kune
three days 150 kune
seven days 300 kune
thirthy days 700 kune
Fees are identical either for the use of angling tools or underwater gun. Permits are issued separatly for angling and underwater spearing.
Equipment allowd for angling:
-fishing line- 2 pieces total with 3 hooks max
- hand-troll - 2 pieces total, with 3 hooks max
- a lure with hools for catching squids and other cephalopodos-2 pieces total
Artificial lightening up to 1000 candelpower can be used only when fishing with squid lures.
Neither hooks larger then 21 mm can be used, nor tuna, swordfish and needlfish can be caught.
Fishing with the permit for an underwater gun, 2 can be used at most, is allowed only from sunrise to sunset without using diving apparatus.

The permit for big game fishing (tuna, swordfish and needlfish) is issued for a fortinight with the fee of 1.000 kuna.
The equipment permetted for fishing includes:
- 2 free spool drifts with only one hook each
- 2 trolling lines
It is allowed to catch only one tuna, swordfish or needlefish per day. The hook size is not limited, but within seven days after fishing the report should be submitted.

Tourist can use the health care services in surgeries and hospitals and pay the same amount for them as paid by citizens of Republic of Croatia. Insured persons from the Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary and Great Britain need only their passport. Tourist from Slovenia use health care services with their own authenticated health cards. Alongside a passport or identity card, tourist from Germany need Form JU6, from Austria form A/HR3, from Italy IT 7. Tourist from the Netherlands need form YN 111 alongside their passports, and visitors from Belgium need form BY 11.
During summer months, there are special tourist ambulatories in every bigger town.

A part of the information brought back in this page has been taken from the review "Kvarner Info" available in local the tourist agencies.

If you decide to rent an apartment for your summer vacations on the island, I council you to go every morning to small bakary stores to buy Krapfen or the bread with jam or the chocolate called pecivo or kifle.

The bakery store of Kornic distance approximately 250 meters from our house, has delicious bread and all the mornings we buy fresh and lukewarm products . I have to confess you that we buy more when we go back to Trieste, for its quality and for the particularitity. (Sure an optimal alternative to the offer of our shoping centers).

The owner of the house holds an appropriate registry that periodically introduces the police of the place where are record all their hosts, also the friends and the relatives have to pay the taxes that follow:
the stay tax, the last year 2004 I paid it also, approximately 1 euro per person per day.
the notification tax it cost 1 euro per person just one time

In town of Krk on the evening, you can meet in thet port, young mens that are proposing trips with boats, they have images of the coast and routes, the cost goes from 30 euro and arrives to 60 euro and depends if you want to have a lunch or dinner on a boat prepared with the fish fished during the excursion or not. They will sure propose you to go to see the dolphins. Between several islands of Quarner and in particular in the zone of Cres and Losinj there is a population of approximately 150 dolphins of the species Tursiops truncatus, together with a smaller dolphins. Maybe you will be fortune to see them. Unfortunaly all the dolphines are considerated threatened species because of the low number remained.

For diving in Croatia it is necessary to have a diving permit issued by Croatian Diving Associations. The permit is valid for one year starting with the day of its issue. Its price is 100 kn. Toghether with the permit, the divers get a list of areas forbidden for diving. The depth limit for recreational scuba diving is 40m.
For additional information apply to Info Points in the Kvarner region or the Croatian Diving Association. www.diving-hrs.hr