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Published: June 13th 2011
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Sex On The Beach Dobiti Sobu! We are very lucky to have an apartment to ourselves just a short walk from the beach. On the Wednesday we decide to spend the morning on the beach. It’s not a particularly sandy beach but it seems to be the best beach in the
Rijeka area. This is where people come in the summer and we’re told it gets very busy. It’s still quite early in the year, the sea is still quite cold {
We’re not brave enough to go too far into the cold water} and we almost have the beach to ourselves.
The only other people on the beach are the couple who are apparently having sex on the opposite side of the beach. {
OK. I’ve deliberately called this page “Sex On The Beach” to see if I get any more hits!} They DO go into the cold water at regular intervals! We are soon joined by one other person – a woman arrives and selects a spot where she will have a grandstand view of the performance. I’m torn between being typically British and pretending not to notice and running back to the apartment to get
the zoom lens for my camera.
When we ask
Sanja later about whether this is a regular event in
Rijeka she decides that the couple must have obviously been Italian! I’m not so sure. On a night out in
Rijeka a couple of days later we return to the car to spot a couple humping in the car parked next to ours. Maybe they were Italians too!
Opatija In the afternoon we go to
Opatija, just across the bay from
Rijeka. We can’t travel too far because Hanah has taken charge and she’s decided she doesn’t like being in cars.
Opatija developed as a resort during the nineteenth century. It’s particularly mild climate in winter made it a favourite destination for the Hapsburgs. Posh hotels and villas were built for the Austrian aristocracy and these have now become the up-market hotels that still draw the visitors in.
We take a walk through the town and then into the gardens at
Villa Angiolina – this has quite a horticultural collection. It’s also the home of a very old church – there’s probably a legend associated with it. This brings to the
seafront where there is the rather impressive statue
Maiden With Seagull and the less impressive
Croatian Walk Of Fame – I think somebody else already had that idea!
Kastav Another nearby location worth a visit is
Kastav. It’s another hill-top village a short distance from
Rijeka. The history of the Balkans seems to have made it necessary to build villages on the top of hills with good fortifications. Nowadays, of course, it’s a place where people want to live because it has the views down to
Rijeka and
Opitija whilst still being close to both towns. Like many other villages the original buildings and narrow winding streets around the church have been preserved.
There is probably a legend associated with the church…..
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