• Home
  • Blog
  • Shop
  • About
  • Contact
  • Facebook
  • Home
  • Blog
  • Shop
  • About
  • Contact
  • Facebook

Blog Post

A bit of everything

05 Aug 2015
0 Comment
Vedran Relja
Rollin'&Strollin'

While we were on vacation, our friend Benny invited us to Fažana, small fishing town at the southern tip of the Istrian peninsula, which runs a small traditional festival of light – Stars, candles and lanternes. The Festival accompanies street musicians and street performers, they have all kinds of lights hanging around and stuff… it’s pretty cool how this little coastal towns come alive at summer. This year’s main performer was formally the longest-running Croatian rockabilly & country band – Mississippi Queen. They kindly invited a couple of us to dance while they perform, which attracted a bunch of tourists and some of them even joined. Mississippi rocked for about two hours… so long lazy vacation!

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA

Fast backward… before we got there, we made a quick test set-up for President Teddy CB radio station, just to see how it works. I repurposed the connector from an old mobile DVD player and created a window edge antenna mount. Not one of my finest works but you know what – if it works it ain’t stupid! We hoped to catch someone on the road and have a little chat, but we didn’t have any luck with that.

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA

Back to Fažana – after the event and post-event hanging around, we decided it’s time to go. In fact, our plan was to stay there overnight, so the next morning we can jump onto one of those tourist boats that cruise around Brijuni islands, but we were too tired and didn’t put too much hope that we’ll be able to wake up in time. Also, we realized that we completely ran out of gas, we were about 150 km short. One would think – no problem, go to the gas station, but it was something like 1 am and all the gas stations were closed for the day. After we got lost a couple of times, a local guy pointed us to Pula which was, of course, in the opposite location of our final destination. So we went to Pula and luckily, found the gas station for the car and fast food restaurant for us. It was about 2 am, so why not go for a small walk and sightseeing (as much as possible in the dark). Pula was previously part of the Roman Empire, with ancient amphitheater and everything, which is nowadays mainly used for concerts, film festivals or tourist tours.

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA

Finally, after 3 am we were on our way – the trip home was pretty boring since there was nobody on the road for a couple of hours. Not to mention that we still didn’t catch up any signal with our radio station, it would probably be easier if we tried with aliens. When we arrived near Gates of Jadran, in the middle of the road we saw two deers playing. We decided to go around them, park on the side and take a picture. When I got near, deers have moved to a side and I realized that they are not playing, but fighting. From what I know, you don’t want to be near large animals with horns while they fight. Anyway, I took a picture of fighting deers that that can compete with those blurry cryptozoology images of mystic creatures.

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA

But, with a little help of sophisticated tools for image enhancement I made it possible for everyone to see. It was dark and the memory of the event faded a bit, so maybe it’s not EXACTLY the same…

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA

And when you think that’s all, 70 km down the road a fox came out of the woods, carrying a micro sized sheep (or something puffy-sheep-like), crossed the road, stopped just frozen and stared at us with its glowy eyes. Stopping was not an option, so we didn’t take a picture, but again, I saved the day and reincarnated the scene, even the glowy laser eyes effect:

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA

I must say that at first Goga was not very pleased with our „crappy“ blury photos, but in the end it was one of those „I’m not even mad, it’s amazing!“ situations.

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA

Share

  • google-share

Search

Categories

  • Build Log
  • Design Thing
  • Ford Capri Build Log
  • Misc
  • Movie Night
  • Old Stuff
  • People&Cars
  • Rollin'&Strollin'
  • Swingship Enterprise
Place your ad here
Place your ad here
AeroMagic
Miromax
OnAir
Solvis
Elly Prizeman
Janakis Lindyhopoulos

Archive

  • April 2020
  • March 2020
  • October 2019
  • September 2019
  • February 2019
  • January 2019
  • November 2018
  • August 2018
  • July 2018
  • June 2018
  • March 2018
  • February 2018
  • December 2017
  • November 2017
  • September 2017
  • August 2017
  • July 2017
  • June 2017
  • May 2017
  • April 2017
  • March 2017
  • February 2017
  • January 2017
  • December 2016
  • November 2016
  • October 2016
  • September 2016
  • August 2016
  • July 2016
  • June 2016
  • May 2016
  • April 2016
  • March 2016
  • February 2016
  • January 2016
  • December 2015
  • November 2015
  • September 2015
  • August 2015
  • July 2015
  • June 2015
  • May 2015
© Craftomoto 2015.
We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website.