My jewel of Dalmatia; MICHAEL NICHOLSON famously rescued a young girl from the Bosnian war. 14 years on, the reporter is back - to a land miraculously restored as a holiday paradise.

The Daily Mail (London, England) | October 8, 2005 | Copyright

Byline: MICHAEL NICHOLSON

THE last time I was in Dalmatia, the coast was on fire. We didn't even call it Dalmatia then. We just knew it as a lethal place to be. It was the summer of 1991 and Croatia was at the beginning of a war that would spread into Bosnia, Serbia and Kosovo, the killing fields that were to stain the map of Tito's mongrel Yugoslavia blood red.

The horror was all the more poignant because of what this had once been: a wonderful playground for British holidaymakers.

For decades, the Dalmatian Coast had been by far the most ...

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