Sunday, 23rd June 2019
It was good waking up this morning and knowing that we need not pack our stuff to hit the road again. Today we are having a relax day in Mali Losinj visiting with Gerry’s friends from decades ago when he was working in the local shipyard back in the 70’s when this country was part of Tito’s Yugoslavia
But first we are drinking coffee downstairs in our little secret garden and patio while I write my blog. Our hosts (from Belgrade, Slovenia), Veronica and Matheus stopped by and we had a nice long chat. They found our road trip very interesting and also asked about my blog. As I had just finished yesterday’s update, I showed them the page and they were fascinated. Matheus noted the blog page and said he would be following me.
Morning coffee on our patio 
That’s me working at my blog 
Early morning view from our bedroom window 
And again the view from our bedroom early morning
After showering we got ready to walk down the steps to meet up with Arlen, a retired teacher who Gerry knows a long long time through Lara’s family. We met up at Bueno’s -a cafe on the main square, serving all sorts of coffee. Arlen is one of the last citizens of Mali Losinj speaking Italian and we had a very dynamic conversation with regard to the history of this island and it’s people.
After a couple of hours, we went up the steps to the church as Gerry had parked the car “somewhere there” …….. what with the warm weather and all the steps we climbed, we were quite out of breath and were glad to find the car after some time! Our next stop was to spend a few hours on the beach before meeting up with Lara and her family – Gerry was hosting a family dinner and the whole family was invited.
Anyway, we spent a few relaxing hours at Cikat beach and swam a few times. It was ever so relaxing.
We met up at Lara’s house round 7 pm and while waiting for her son Alex, to come back from his fishing expedition with his girlfriend Bruna, we enjoyed the view from their veranda with a glass of wine.
Finally we saw Alex arriving in the harbour in his little motor boat. Apparently he had caught two sea bass which went into the fridge and we will be eating tomorrow’s lunch.
Lara had made a reservation at the Lantern, a restaurant perched on the shore line across the beach if Cikat. Her brother, Christian and his wife Sandra as well as her mother Anna were joining us too so we had a really long table on the terrace where we could watch the sunset.
We had to walk quite a bit to teach the restaurant as it is in a park but the sunset scenery made it worthwhile and I did manage to capture a few good shots as you can see in the above picture gallery.
After the sun set, the sea breeze was quite fresh but luckily the restaurants gave us fleece blankets to wrap ourselves in…….. we had a lovely meal and I am sure Gerry enjoyed reminiscing about old times with the various members of the family.
It was a delightful evening which ended up with Gerry trying to find the same parking area as we had when we left for the day the same afternoon…….. and then to find our way to our apartment down various pathways and steps……. but we did manage to get home …….
Tomorrow, we will be leaving Mali Losinj by ferry to Zadar where we will be staying overnight before driving to Dubrovnic.
