7/1 Monday
We can take a local bus to Omiš,
about 25 miles down the coast. Easy-Peasy. We need to contact our host, so we head to a café with wifi to send him a message, where
we enjoy “natural lemonade,” which is fresh lemon juice with water, no sugar
until you add your own. Wakes you up! Our host arrives at last takes us to our apartment
on the hill. The drive up becomes long and steep. Where he drives, we have to walk, so we’re quite
relieved when he finally stops.
The hill is not really so bad, and
we have a beautiful view to the waters, out across an old terraced farm, with
no houses in front of us. The balcony wraps around the front of the building,
all private for us. Our host's girlfriend has prepared an extravagant lunch platter
for us, with prosciutto, cheeses and salad and juice, “all organic and natural”
she says proudly.
We walk back into town for provisions,
planning carefully to avoid lugging too much back up the hill (Note: Remember -
Hills are good for you). The traffic is busy through the city center and the
streets are full of tourist families. It’s always a little stressful to get
organized on the first day, you need to find out where everything is. The city is full of old, narrow stone streets,
ancient, small churches and Roman remnants of carvings and doorways. The
massive grey mountains spring up nearly right from the sea, on three sides,
leaving not much room for the buildings. This is why the river inlet was such a
popular hideout for the pirates. We can see a fortress over the city, and
another even higher up on the mountain crest. Maybe we’ll hike to it. Maybe
not.
1 Video Included
Omis Old Town
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