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Rijeka, Rijeka

as you may have noticed, I am lagging behind poating about all the trips to the sea side, but in Rijeka so much has happened that I just gonna jump right here.
THe first festival is comming up and everything is going well so far, we just had the posters up around town and they look fantastic, Tunred out that one of my current flatmates is the graphic designer of it. Small world.
I have overcome my initial exhaustion and dragged myself to the bars and cafes of the city at night, which are still rather unpopulated, but slowly people are coming back to town. I got to know a lot of wonderful people, checked out some clubs, cafés and beach bars and had some quality time with the little cat and the dog that live in my apartment.

*apparently, Blogger has a limited quota for uploading fotos. So I will move the blog somewhere else and let you know.*

a day on land - Kosljun

Since Kim had been on a boat every single day, we decided to give the island a try. Unfortunately, Kim stayed in a tiny village that was close to the dive basis, but kind of cut off from the everything else. So we checked out everything Dunat had to offer (a medieval church that looked like a pizza oven) and then hitchhiked to the next bigger Hamlet, Punat (ha, what a confusing pun).

In Punat, there was not much more to do, so we took a boat to go to Kosljun, a picturesque Franciscan monastery.

Krk Town

The night before going to the boat trip, we met in Krk for dinner, since Kim was staying in a very small village, that had one tiny supermarket. Krk town is soemwhat bigger and boasts a rich nightlife, but we went back to Kornic quite early to get enough beauty sleep.

The Krk diveboat daytrip

As I said, I went to visit Kim on Krk on the first weekend in Rijeka. We went on a daytrip with the diveboat, also I did not dive this time. But it was wonderful be on the water and jump in while the real divers struggeld witha ll their gear... I did not take that many pictures, so here jsut a few glimpses at the blue...

 the empty beach in the early morning

the full beach when we came back

on Ilovik, the island of flowers

or so it's called. Two excursion boats dropped off their load onto this picturesque island, that was lying still in its beauty sleep....

brief look at Cres

I noticed that the blog is way behind reality, I have arrived in Rijeka last week already, spent the first days working and trying to settle in, while only now people start to come back from their holidys...
Kim spend 10days on the island of Krk, Croatias biggest island close to Rijeka, where she did not spent much time out of the water or on its surface. I visited her twice and went diving too, but sadly she had to return to a rainy cold Cologne yesterday.

But you sitll don't knwo anything about our pedal boat adventures on Cres!
From Mali Losinj we took a bus to the Island of Cres, another picturesque place a bit further up North (and thus closer to my final destination, Rijeka). Unfortunately, the lady in the Hotel in Mali Losinj failed to give me back my ID, which we discovered when we checked in in Cres. So I took the next bus back there, and traveled the same route three times in a row. So I can say I do know Cres almost by heart now. When I got back it was too late to rent a scooter as we planned to, and also renting things there was not a matter of spontaneity, so all we could get was a pedal boat. Sounds lame, but, hey, look at the pictures!

at night we headed out for a yummy dinner with fresh fish after checking the web at our aperitivo... ;-)