This is what I see as soon as I turn left from my AirBnB here in the least famous village on earth called Vidrenjak:
Don't rush to judge me as snobbish, I never implied that fame comes with quality. Besides, I wish in my hometown we still had low houses with yards and gardens like they do here:
Even the local car repair has a rather cute sign for a shop like this, at least way better than the Greek ones tend to:
I leave the main road to check out the backstreets. Not that there's too much traffic on the main one anyway but I'm always intrigued to see things from the "inside":
A few unfinished houses around, waiting to host people looking for some quiet living when they're finished:
Almost all of them have a water well, especially the old ones. You find them even in abandoned field like this one:
Water resources are beyond plenty in Croatia and here it feels like you find water if you dig just a couple of meters deep. And yes, it's laughable to even ask if tap water is OK, it is country wide.
Steps later I am able to see in the distance one of the local attractions and highest buildings (yet not that high), St. Michael's church:
The pros of low/small houses...
I'll definitely check out the church later but now I am attract by the local fields and how much view these unbuilt areas allow:
You see was born and spent most of my life in a big city so this is the perfect opposite and attracts my attention effortlesly.
And their lucky kids can play in this backyard. Hope they get well with their new neighbours when that property on the left next to them is finished:
This house has no neighbours at all but no residents either as it hasn't been lived for god knows how long:
Next to it is a plant nursery business and their truck is the first I see with 4 small rear wheels instead of a pair of normal ones. Plus they seem to have a retractable suspension:
Even closer to the church, I notice that the Croatian flag is anything but a rarity on the local balconies:
It's not just an old house, it's an abandoned one that looks as if it came out of a season movie scene:
I don't know why but it seems that almost all the buildings around the church are abandoned. Are the bells too loud?🙂 Weird:
(You can see a pair of goalposts if you open the images)
Here's where the local football magic happens, at the FC Sokol:
Well, turns out it's their national celebration today!
Time to go back for some cooking before I feed myself and rest. The chef (me) today has mushrooms and potato done in the oven with some parsley and olive oil:
Bon Appetit, hope you got an idea about the area I'm in, see you on the next one cause there's more to see!
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