European Holidays

We left Mali Lošinj early this morning, but not as early as we had left Zadar. We were en-route to Pula over some rough seas. Not as rough as two days ago but the waves were crashing over the portholes in our cabin (we are on the lowest deck). I gave up on having a shower as the door kept wanting to open and was hitting me – I had a bruise to prove it! Once we finished crossing open water and were in the lee of a couple of islands things got a bit calmer and we managed to set

We stayed at Mali Lošinj today. Apparently one of our neighbours had sailed from Pula during the storm and the waves had been up over the decks – I’m glad we hadn’t been out in that. As we were going to be stuck here all day our tour director had arranged for us to visit the local museum dedicated to the Croatian Apoxyomenos. This is a bronze statue from the 1 st or 2 nd century BC which depicts a Grecian athlete scraping sweat and dust from his body with the small curved i