Auf Weidersehen Croatia

For our last week (of five total weeks) in Croatia we continued our coastal tour southward spending several days in both Zadar and Trogir before catching our flight back to Germany on December 11. Zadar and Trogir, continued the theme of the Dalmatian Coast with ancient walled cities, ubiquitous limestone, Roman ruins, medieval churches, and rocky Adriatic beaches.

Miscellaneous pieces of Roman ruins creating a path

Alfred Hitchcock felt Zadar had the best sunsets in the world,

and these came with a sound track as an art installation design by architect Nikola Basic called the Sea Organ constantly plays musical notes from the waves. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_organ.

He also designed the adjacent Monument to the Sun which is an interactive dance floor of solar panels that light up in multiple colors after sunset.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monument_to_the_Sun
Unfortunately, this was being repaired while we were there, but there was other night life to be had, as the Advent/Christmas Program was in full swing.  Each chilly night there was a concert in the town square.  We even imbibed in the local rum punch, which tasted more like a stomach punch with an odd burnt cherry rum cough syrup edge.

We arrived at our last stop, Trogir, in a torrential downpour with thunder and lightening (Croatian Callum).  It”s walled old city was a cramped confusing maze causing us to get lost in search of our place and subsequently drenched.

Completely soaked when we finally arrived, our host welcomed us with homemade walnut whiskey and hot tea. The walnut whiskey was incredibly tasty, maybe the best thing we’ve had the entire trip, and the best part was that she left the bottle. She also left a bottle of local favorite rikija, (like Italian grappa) but that gave us rum punch flashbacks.

Trogir an a emblematic Dalmatian coastal city, a perfect conclusion to our five week visit.

After four months on the road, 119 in 22 different places, we are back to Saarbrücken with the granddaughter for the the holidays as we figure out the next phase.

This week’s photo of topless old man looking out window contemplating his life…

“first one to the office Christmas party”

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