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...

Month of September. Left Padstow lunchtime 1st for Glastonbury, via horrible bus station Taunton and nice but quaint Wells. Saw cathedral and springs and climbed the Tor. Ate very bad pizza in Glastonbury but met interesting Italian girl called Adrianne in the best herb and alternative medicine centre. Friday left Glastonbury for Ross cider festival. Bought lots of camping bits which have come in so useful. Had a great time with hem hem Shelley. Hitched from the cider festival to Ross for a long journey to Cambridge Sunday afternoon. Met Sallyann while in Ross in her Cafe, but I really have forgotten it's name. Getting on towards 50 but heavenly. Sent her a card from everywhere I've visited so far as she asked. Promised me a job for when I get back? We'll see? Arrived in Cambridge in the evening of the 5th. Nice few days. Hung out with Katy until she left for Ayr and the our Susannah. Found one or two great places to hang out when in Cambridge again, including the fitzwi...

Left the tent after a better nights sleep curtesy of a pillow extension, ie a pile of clothing rolled into a roughly pillowed shape. Had a night of candles, tea tree, camphor and large moth. But no problem. Had banana and bread breakfast. Worked my way to the plaža at Ičići and had only one cup of kava. On the chapter 'hollow men' and realise Fowles use of allusions to other texts and places. It's like gaps in knowledge sometimes. If you haven't seen that painting you don't really get the text. Is this what intertextuality meant all them years ago. If you needed to refer externally to understand the internal. Never sure what that post-modern concept meant. Stumbled slightly on page 275. Walked along Lungo to Slatina and found a good place to dip in the brine and sunbathe for a while - undisturbed. I thought the water was frigid with all the rain water that's been added to the sea since Monday. After a while I adjusted and felt the last few days troubles melt...

I wrote a good poem about loneliness yesterday, but it vanished and I was too lonely to write it again, obviously. I remember I thought it funny I was listening to 'all this and world war ii' in a campsite surrounded by retiree Germans from Bavaria. Mein Kampf anybody... Did the third reich put them in hotel dressing tables or bed side tables instead of the ubquious gideons bible I always found on my travels? The candle I was given yesterday splutters. It chokes. But it's peaceful. I really hate passionately the fifty million German pensioners thrown up around Slatina. I don't know what they think of while patrolling the perimeter of Europe. Here come mein Floffy pigeon or zwei. They come hoping for a crust. I thought at first that they had some radar but they don't. They have seen humans drop their food so the come to see a human hoping they're all dropping food. They wonder over quite rigid in their manner. The bob of their heads is comical and just ab...

I just deleted my last few hours' conversations...which is a shame. Got back to Volosko for a mite more white wine. Mass is being rung out. At 8pm. By Saint Ane. Met 2 Israeli free divers here in mala bar. Was intrigued how some people can hold their breath for 11minutes. On the surface not deep. Big guy could free dive more than thin guy. Lung capacity. Amazing. Taking your mind off the need to breath. NoTanx I've often done that when trying to kill myself late at night. They were drinking grappa, vino and giving the owner what for: very cute girl. Didn't mean to give the wrong impression if I was over friendly as it was a relief to get drunk without paying for it. 24kuna for four glasses of Poreč vina is £2.80 for 4 house wines that make Barolo pale away. Finally got the bus driver to 'cut me some slack'. Rope not to hang myself with. So I get the last connection to Ičići. Will now go to volovsko for fish every day, but need to talk to a doctor abo...

Hey, the weather has finally changed, but not the number of Mosquitos I'm being bitten by in Opatija. Going to hang about around here until Saturday and then shifty up to Trieste for the night. I'm trying to find a couch to sleep on. Um, sleeping on a tent floor is flawed. Facking knackered. Found a very cheap place to eat a shit load of tasty and fresh sardines. 8 kuna for 10 huge ones - £1 for my dinner. I might end up ponging of them though. Hope you're well? Daniel.