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Wednesday 20th September 2023
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Another
breakfast time departure. There were beautiful views of Rab as we
left and headed towards Mali Losinj. |
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The last few miles of
the route were especially interesting, because Mali Losinj
is situated at the head of quite a narrow channel. There
were what appeared to be shortcuts that we might have taken,
but clearly our captain knew that the slightly longer route
was the only safe one. |
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A few
random photos of the ship, taken as we sailed. |
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Another
opportunity to pause and set down some ropes to demarcate a safe
area for swimming. |
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Sailing on, we passed
a resort called Trasorka, which has glamping tents as well
as fixed accommodation. We wondered whether it was a naturist
resort because there are loads of these and they are something
for which Croatia is famous. |
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This
is the point where we turned right into the channel leading to Mali
Losinj. |
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Mali
Losinj |
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We were
free to explore by ourselves, which we were happy to do. |
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We were given one very
strong recommendation from our cruise director (which sounded
more like a command!) to visit the Museum of Apoxyomenos.
The museum is devoted to the display of one item, the Croatian
Apoxyomenos, which is an Ancient Greek statue cast in bronze
in the 2nd or 1st century BC. It was discovered in 1996
on the bottom of the sea nearby - more information here
and in the daily programme above. |
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It is
an unusual mueum. The staircase is one example of that! |
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It is possible to enter
the room where the exhibit is displayed, but a rather stern
looking guard is on hand to ensure that you don't take any
photos or attempt to touch it. It is therefore only possible
to take pictures from outside the room, looking through
one of two portholes. The whole experience was weird, but
we thought the exhibit itself was wonderful. |
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Views
of our ship from the museum. |
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Afterwards we went for
a walk to explore the town a bit more and hopefully find
the church on the hill. Unfortunately we didn't have a map
with us and got a bit lost, climbing up a very steep hill
to the wrong part of town in the heat. We did find this
church, however. |
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Bruce
needed some gelato to cool off! |
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Later
Geoff went off on his own, armed with a map this time, and found
the church on the hill. |
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Our friend Angela was
on the preceding cruise and gave us a recommendation for
this restaurant for an evening meal. The food was excellent
and the staff were lovely. Thank you Angela! |
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Once
again, we remained docked in the port overnight, so there was no
rush to get back after our lovely meal. |
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