A rebel without a clue.

There is something very poetic seeing a woman do her makeup on a train journey. It's part of the journey to the preparedness. Reach the destination how you wish to be perceived.

Trying to barter that I can camp for 60kuna and therefore I am only willing to pay 80kuna for a bed for 3 nights in Split. Got 4 nights at 320kuna. Saved 80kuna and didn't have to camp on a weekend when it is supposed to rain. Leave Monday morning. Found cheap sandwich bar. After a long and pretty exhausting journey to the top of Marjan and down past various beaches in that peninsula I am back at the golden gate entrance to Diocletian's palace. North gate I think. Just eaten borek and a chocolate cake. No more than 20 kuna and eaten for free prickly pears: paying the price with , and finding a half dozen sweet figs directly from the tree: being bitten and paying the price. Met a girl from Australia on the way up Marjan hill who's studying in Köln and introduced her to eating fruit off the tree. My thumb is stained from the prickly pear. Carmine I think. The figs were juicy and like nectar. Back at the basilica at the centre of the palace. It has quietened down a bit s...

Got up with alarm at 5:55, but would've been woken up for the drag of the mass bells calling the drones to worship. 6am the clatter of gongs. I would only go there to tell them to stop that racket. You may be monks living cloistered lives, but you don't have the right to force the remainder of us to conform. Oh, this is a good god fearing nation, I forget. So to Split at 7am. I liked Vis, and I am glad I spent 5 days relaxing there. The local wine is excellent. So are the fruits you can pick off the trees. The people are helpful and welcoming. The island is not full of 'the cast of Eastenders' as 2 Welsh girls just put those they met travelling to Hvar. The ferry is filling up slowly. I hope there's enough to cause ballast. No need the sea looks calm as the sun rises over the ridge in the hill. The town looks pink, lilac and lavender in the early morning lights. Had a couple of bottles of wine last night. Woke up with a start at 1257 thinking I had over slept. P...

I decided not to go to Komiža if it's going to cost 40kuna return. Am walking to Kut to see if I can use a computer in the library. It's another fine day, but the library is closed until 1600. I don't think I'm in the right frame of mind for getting on a bus and doing tourism. Arrived at Kut and just taken a number of photos of the clock tower. Not a soul in any of the bars or restaurants. Caffé Bise has just 1 patron. Just 3 yachts tied up at the quay. Feels a bit desolate. Maybe time to hang out on the beach next to monastery? There is a pile of clothing and a lunch box of broken wafer biscuits discarded on the quay next to a palm. There are many many fish in the harbour and the water is very clear. So few people in the streets. Must be siesta time. Between 12 and 5. Galeb courting next to library and Vista Klub and it's phallic galerija. Wooden carved penises; imagine giving one as a present to royalty or an agéd relative who ain't seen cock since he...

With a gun in hand the man is removed from t he direct act of killing. It's a cowards way to kill. The bigger guns the bigger coward. In a cathedral town tesco's sets itself up with a leaden spire! Wells. Water runs down the road but it isn't bottled at source. I am hard to get to know, but much harder to forget. I see too many empty people to inspire me.

No electricity in most of the house No gas for ages Kitchen unfinished Constant people coming in the house and doing thinks with drills early in the Morning and during the my split shift Painters and decorators Nothing to cook food with Nowhere to sit to eat food Nowhere to wash clothes Nowhere to dry clothes No front room No patio area No washing line Dust/mess all through the house not cleaned up by builders. No door key for my room No tv No freeview Sharing a room with a guy with zero respect for the hours I work.  Mould on panels in the cupboards in the kitchen. Forced by circumstances to eat at chippy everyday for days... A tiny pillow 12:20 and loads of people in the house and it didn't stop until at least 2am Kyle's birthday, but rules are rules? 8am noise from backyard carrying to front of house not at work until 10:30. From yard 8:12 guy hitting chisel with hammer on to wooden block before walking off...and coming back with a Stanley knife to do...

I've left Padstow  Courtesy of Rick Stein. Over consumption of bus timetables may cause drowsiness.