Now, I am not much of a culture vulture, but I thoroughly enjoyed our visit to the Džmonja Sculpture Park in Vrsar. Perhaps that makes me a sculpture vulture? The location of the park on a hill overlooking the sea is a wonderful setting for the beautiful works of this world-famous Croatian artist. The Oldies were amazed that admission to the park is free. Definitely worth it!I wouldn’t know how to even begin to interpret these sculptures, made of a…
-Dobar dan! -Eh, Seamus is the name actually. Not Dan. -Ah, an English-speaking seagull. A wooden English-speaking seagull, even. How quaint! I was just saying good afternoon. I’m Vlad by the way. -Oh, howya, Vlad, nice to meet you. -You too. Was that you I saw yesterday down at the Fishermen’s Festival at Vrsar harbour, by any chance? -Sure was. I was there with my owners. It was brilliant. I’m still drooling. Fish, fish everywhere, what a treat! -Great wasn’t…
Typically, our journey from the Czech Republic to Croatia was far from uneventful. His lordship, not a great believer in modern technology, refuses to buy a SatNav. Her ladyship’s map-reading skills are, as we already know, quite woeful, and as neither of them puts much stock in planning, preferring to just follow their elderly noses wherever they may lead them, the return journey was yet another mystery tour – eine Fahrt ins Blaue. And a very big Fahrt it turned…
A first for me today: I went on a bike ride! Her Ladyship made a song and dance about the fact that she managed a 30km ride after having been unable to cycle for the past year. Silly twit fell off the bike and banged up her knee apparently. God, you’d think she’d just climbed Mount Everest or something. She should try flying sometime! Anyway, she took me along for the ride – Vsar to Porec, along the coast. The…
I wore my Ireland scarf, screeched my head off, all to no avail. Poor Ireland went out in the end, but my little gull chest swelled with pride. They did a great job. Well done, you boys in green! It’s been interesting watching the matches down here in Croatia. Ah, poor Croatia. My heart went out to them. They really gave it their all. The locals were very subdued after their defeat. Even the gull population seemed a little quieter…