A rebel without a clue.

7:07 and it's already too dark to read by natural light; shame the last chapter was interesting. I have managed to pack already for the off on the morrow: Saturday and decided what clothes to wear too. I have not touched the final allowance for the trip. Finished off the bread and cream cheese and some olive oil for my evening meal. Found a couple or three figs that were ripe for a delicious and very free dessert. Shame I didn't have any panacotta to go with it. Put some of the Rosemary that grows so well in Istra in the olive oil to add an extra dimension. I have learnt that there are two excellent pršut in Croatia. One from the area around the Dalmatian coast( dalmatinski pršut) and another from Istra( istarski pršut) , but I've only tried that one from around Rovinj. They are very proud of their natural produce in Croatia and it is quite rare to see foreign or out of season produce anywhere. I've noticed that finding figs is now quite difficult and that may b...

Trip to Rijeka on my last day in Croatia return trip 30kuna. Fantastic: a city. Free wifi in the main shopping area. Went to main cheese, meat and fish market and perused food sold therein. Ate at a local bar selling fish direct from the next door market: Konoba Fiume. Pišmolji Whiting. Inčuni Blue anchovies Blitva swiss chard. 35kuna. Yippee. Saw so many fishes in the Mrtvi Kanal on the way through to Titov Trg. Huge too. Walked up 450 steps; far too many and monotonous at the same time, up to Trsat which has Celtic roots. I was swearing and sweating at the conclusion. Met two obviously unCroatian girls from Nyborg in good old Denmark: body language, going to Split via same route I took to come here. Looked at the view and then descended for a n°32. Black cat slinking through a locked iron gate and old man to walk up 450 steps with shopping who can see the funny side of the task in hand! I claimed to gave seen the most attractive girl on all my travels in Croatia. W...