10/06/2023

The HIVE Tour - Episode 15 - My first morning @ East Croatia

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:



What I don't envy at all is those deep drains waiting to swallow someone on their unlucky day:

In this quiet and silent village the following scene feels awkward:

That's a burnt car over there:

Fortunately the rest of the houses have much better decorative bits around them:

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:


And some neglected old ones with lots of stories to tell:


While others hide behind dense vegetation like this next one:

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.

It's a super grey day and the shades of Green try to fight the weather's gloomy colours:


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.

Same goes for old houses like this:

I'm getting closer to the local church while this new house looks like an eye candy to me:

These guys here see so much flat green on a daily basis:

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:

Closer to the church, closer to one more new nice house, especially if you like shades of peanut:

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:

Those greenhouses look indifferent from outside,

but they sure have lots of cuties inside:

Even closer to the church, I notice that the Croatian flag is anything but a rarity on the local balconies:

Finally I'm only a block away from that church:

And it makes such a combo with that old house from this viewing angle:

It's not just an old house, it's an abandoned one that looks as if it came out of a season movie scene:


The church is much more maintained, looking as it was just painted:



Sorry for the tilted images but was kinda too tall to fit in one frame. Here's one more pair:


I don't know why but it seems that almost all the buildings around the church are abandoned. Are the bells too loud?🙂 Weird:




As I step away from the church life goes back to normal...or shall I'd better say life comes back?:

See how lucky kids can be here with a DIY football field like this in their exclusive disposal:



(You can see a pair of goalposts if you open the images)

But the gardens of the rest ones are definitely not bad either:


Here's where the local football magic happens, at the FC Sokol:



Looks far enough from the church:

This doesn't mean that the abandoned houses are over though:

Croatian flags again...I start wondering if they have them all year waving like this:


Well, turns out it's their national celebration today!

No church here, there's only the local cafe bar instead so this looks a little odd to me:

Green and grey all the way on a day like 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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