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Longest Day 2010

Well I am back...what a multiple journey. Not again for a while. It has really taken the wind out of my sails(I got into a warm bed at 00:23 and slept so snoringly soundly). Went for a short walk with Mister Dogg and played a while. He's so easy to reaquaint with. I've seen him once since May. Job interview tonight at Sant' Angelo hopefully I can say and do enough to fill a gap in their schedule up to and over the New Year. Fingers crossed. Need to cut my barnet fair tonight and have an early one. By tomorrow I won't be so knackered. Try boiling some sliced potatoes leaving to dry when they are just at the crumbly or breaking stage. add parsley, white wine vinegar, garlic. simple to accompany Sardines deep fried for a few minutes(salt pepper and a little flour). gobble and enjoy with a chilled Malvasia Like the very enjoyable Istrian variety produced by Vina Ritoša

Dark in Ičići

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...