Day 94 23 July 2013 Pula After visiting the early morning market in Rijeka, to buy some bread and cheese and making breakfast on my seat while enjoying the look over Rijeka harbour, I got ready for my ride down the Istria Peninsula to view Pula and its Colosseum Pula is not all that famous but should be. If you mention "the Colosseum" everyone immediately associated this with Rome. However the Colosseum in Pula is better preserved than the one in Rome. The ...

Day 93 22 July 2013 She is ready! Around eleven thirty I called the dealer and asked how things were going with my motorcycle. Meanwhile I had packed up but not paid my bill as yet. There was still a question about the early arrival of the parts but… they had arrived. The bishop I had made fun of was now helping me I think, as when I arrived at the bus stop, bus number 5 had just pulled out, but when I waived the driver, he stopped. Almost the same happe...

Day 92 21 July 2013 No news- beach-read wait for bike to be fixed. The only thing I recall today was something totally unexpected, I hardly ever go the beach and if I go I only go for a very short time and if possible early in the morning or late afternoon. Today I was there at midday. There was a little bit of wind but still the temperature was in the mid thirties. I must have lost a moisture while I fell asleep. Towards late afternoon I was very thirsty and ...

Day 91 20 July 2013 Bearing all. I received and unintelligible phone call last night form the dealer who has my bike in his workshop. Just to make sure that I did not miss out on something important I set out to go to the shop, a fair task in itself. I have been spoiled with second to none public transport systems in Singapore, Beijing, Moscow and St Petersburg, where just one ticket takes you anywhere and announcements are made over the PA and by lit up sig...