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A day at the beach, Zaton

The sky is totally blue when we get up and a few sparrows have decided to become our pets for the next few days: they are upon and around our tent and don't fly away when we step outside. Our breakfast must be a feast for them, or maybe they are used to be so spoiled on this campsite. It is an easy place for birds to become very lazy.

This morning we first go to Joshko's house since his mother has prepared lunch for us, an extensive meal. We are prepared for that and just ate a minimum at breakfast so we don't have to disappoint here by eating very little.

Although we can barely understand each other and need Joshko to translate everything, we like each other very much; she must be a nice person to have as a mother. She lives on the island Pag, not too far from here and we have to promise to come and visit her later this week, which we do.

Around 2 o'clock we drive back and take Joshko with us since he has to work between 2 and 12 in one of the bars on the terrain of the campsite. While he goes working we go off to the beach for a few hours. It is reasonably busy but we find a nice spot. The water is very cold, though, much colder than it was last year (but then it was July and 40 degrees in the afternoon).

At the end of the afternoon and later at night we have a drink at the bar where Joshko works and since there are almost no people there (it is situated totally wrong on the terrain, outside the shopping center) he has time to sit with us so we can chat some more. We already regret it that we only have a few days here but that is how it is. The next days we will spend more time with him and do and see some things. Hopefully we will start to make more pictures then, as well. In the meantime we are very glad to have a few days 'off'!

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