A rebel without a clue.

Figs are currently my favourite fruit. Prickly pears are interesting, but too painful to venture that far to eat. All these dolls around the room is a bit haunting and many many crucifixes in the house. I feel like I'm in an apartment from the 1940's. Not much English spoken in these parts. German is a better option. I will visit Germany next time I live the UK. Over Christmas with Glenn maybe? Spoke to a local about working as an English language teacher. But I'd only make 10000 kuna per month. She says chefs in the large hotels make more. To be considered. But I think Slovenia is the place for chef work. How do I get from here to Pirano or Ljubljana? Is there a cheap option. Don't mind rain, but need to see a bit more of Slovenia. Apparently they pay the same to the government for healthcare etc as you get paid.

Tomislav amongst friends and jumbo pizza in Narodni trg after 3 portions of local pide type bread(soparnik) I woke up many times in a hard bed last night and my eyes feeling tender. Off to Diocletian's palace to tell him straight I am tired. The old lady of Split offers me chocolate drink in the morning, but with puffy eyes and tired senses I am in search of kava. The look that lacks warmth. It requires a smile or at least something from the eyes. So very dark, but maybe one is slightly fair? In her grey pants and tight teeshirt. Processed cheese cake charm. Piddling/pissing self importance... Just outside the east gate of the palace is the cheap and tacky clothing vendors I think the same vendors have been using thus wall since most ancient times. Selling shit to ancient tourist. Bits of relics and lavender pomade to ward off the plague. Blessings from witches and peasant food dressed up as quaint or ancient and over charged. In the green Market there is the same foodstu...

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.