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Thursday 10 June, with Joshko and his mother to the island Pag

Croatia 2004 - part V

Elisabeth & Teije
2006-08-26 17:10:02

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It is not only hot but also very humid when we get up, so we feel sweaty without doing anything. Time to spend our last free hours on the beach. It is so quiet that we have the sea almost for ourselves.

In the afternoon we pick up Joshko to take him with us on our last day here. First we drive to the island Pag and the little town with the same name. His mother Marija lives here. Pag is a elongated island, more than 50 km. long and never broader than 10 km. A bridge connects the island nowadays with the mainland and as sopon as we cross it we get the impression of a real desert, so barren and desolate looks the landscape. From this island come the famous Croatian cheeses and there is a large salt extraction industry, which already was here in Roman times.
Of course the first thing we get at Marija's home is food. After that she takes us on a tour through the town of Pag.

We don't remember exactly what Elisabeth is doing here, some sort of dance, we think. To the right a tiler who covers all boulders with some cement but that will make the pattern invisible. When we ask he tells us that they scour away the top level of cement so the boulders become visible but the ground stays even.

Pag is a small town with not much tourism, yet. But it is really beautifully situated. We are glad there is a soft, cooling breeze, because it is getting hotter and hotter.
In the middle of the island is a lake where archeologist have found an undersea Roman town. We drive to that place but since it lies too deep we don't see anything of it.

Marija is very sweet but she only speaks Croatian and Italian. But through sign language we understand quite a lot of what she is saying since Joshko is getting tired of his interpreting job now and then. She is very well informed about the history and local customs so she has a lot to tell. In the car she gives directions while Elisabeth and Joshko have a hard time in the back with ...