Poseidon

The Fjor of Lim

On Mondaywe went on a boat trip to the Fjord of Lim located in the Istrian Peninsula. The boat was a tiny, picturesque, almost cartoon like with an effigy of the Viking dragon at the front. It could hold about 15-20 people. The sail started in the city of Rovinj and the boat moved northward. It was super windy and the boat was swinging right left and forwards just like a fairground boat.

This is where the irony kicks in. I NEVER go on fariground boats because I get ultra sick and sometimes start vomiting afterwards. However, somehow, I thought a real boat would be different since a few years ago in Venice there was no negative experiences most probably due to the siye of the boat.

This time it was different. As soon as we got moving the boat atrted bouncing up and down like a Tin-Tin cartoon and my stomach started following in its footsteps. First I felt a kind of rotation in my stomach then the sensation of standing yet moving, later a great dizziness where everything was blurry and a feeling of going to vomit but being unable to. It was a sensation beyond words that I don't wish upon anyone.

Good thing a co-passanger advised me to ist int he middle, lean back, ligt my feet up stomach level, look out and breathe deeply becaause otherwise I would have been sick.

The Fjord is not exactly a rugged, roccky, dramatic Fjord one find in Norway with a thin strip od greyish water running through but rahter a wide expansion fo seawater in between two soft, lush , green hills where there is still a possibility of waves.

I totally enjoyed the trip bugtwouldnot even dream of going on a boat ride longer than an hour ever again. Rottterdam will have to wait till I can pay to go by plane since a boat just simply won't do.

Seaside Adventures

I am back from the seaside. I can't complain too much about the weather since it did not rain and it looks like our collective plea worked :-). It was quite windy and the sea wasn't exactly "let's play ball in the water" as far as temperature is concerned and I did need a few layers of dresses on the "beach" but other than that it was great.

As it's nearlyy always the case with me there were things worth wrtiting about that happened at the seaside although luckily, nothing of the falling over or getting lost type which I am usually famous for.

Wheat Embargo

I should seriously stop watching the News. Bread, here in Croatia, and maybe in the rest of Europe, is alredy very expensive due to the Recession. To make the situation worse, Russia, the biggest exporter of wheat in the world, had announced a ban on wheat exports due to the recent fires destrroying many hectares of wheat fields.

This will make the already expensive bread prices shoot upwards together with other wheat products.

I only hope that the Recession will not become the Great Depression like that of the 30s or that of the 80s which caused people in Croatia and all of ex-Yugoslavia to cue up for hours in order to get thee most ordinary articles such as coffee, washing powder,sugar and PETROL (which makes me think what would an OIL embargo look like).

We have already experienced what a gas embargo looks like a few years ago when we were freezing our heads off (since the more appropriate word is inappropriate) ude to a tiff between Yurshenko and Putin. To make the situation more (tragi) comical I happened to be skiing at the moment and spent every evening begging all the forces of good for the tiff to stop and for Putin to switch the gas pipe back on.

I always complain about thhe depressive news until someone brings me back from the clouds and tells me that's pretty much a job description of the News lol.

Advice: Dear world leaders, please try not to settle your conflicts by switching of a pipeline feeding all of Europe with gas.

Hope: We won't need to cue up for bread for two hours only to find out it's gone when it's our turn. Oh, and hopeffully it won't cost 20 pounds.

Collective Plea

I beg everyone and anyone who reads this blog to keep their fingers crossed for the global rain to stop.

Thank you very much