These days in Rovinj, I experimented a bit with my new camera. Tried out some individual ISO-settings, variations in lighting, aperture and shutter speed. In addition I played around with the software for post-production that’s why e.g. in a few pictures the colour and saturation look white heavy. Here’s the entire set on Flickr, and a few straight away on my blog.
Sun-Dial
Sunset with sleeping Cat
Boats in Bay
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Just arrived in Munich after quite some trouble today: I had taken a rental car from Triest airport to Rovinj on Monday and was supposed to be back for my return flight at 2.30 pm latest today afternoon. I departed with sufficient buffer, as I presumed, shortly after 11 am for the 145 km trip which usually takes 1.45 to 2.00 hours. Yes, where I got stuck was the mother of all traffic jams, something I have never seen in my whole life. 145 km in, guess how much, almost 6 hours! Needless to mention that I missed my flight, but was luckily able rebook on the plane at 7.20 pm. In the nutshell I wish that Croatia was from Germany as far as Greece or Turkey, because then people would have to fly. For inexplicable reasons, Croatia basically gets exclusively visitors coming by car.
On the flipside: There is simply no offering to get to Northern Coastal Croatia by plane from e.g. Munich. This sadly makes it totally prohibitive for a weekend trip like to Mallorca or Capri. So frankly, for me it is a way bigger pain in the ass to travel from Munich to Rovinj than from Munich to Bangalore. I hate driving a car longer than two hours. However, today’s waste of time and life is the best indication that the combination of plane to a rather distant, yet still closest, airport plus rental car is not a solution either.
Tomorrow morning I will continue to Bangalore where I’ll find plenty of time to relax from today’s 6 hour-shock. Tuesday evening then on to Singapore where I had been for the first and last time 15 years ago with my good dentist-comrade “Gentleman”. All together 5 days which would be quite a lot just for the city-state of Singapore, hence I guess I’ll do some breakouts to the beach in Southern Malaysia. Let’s see which winds will be favourable for the spontaneous journey. Will do some posting here after that trip here.
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Not that you have asked for it - and very sure you don’t need tips from me. But feel rather compelled to say - I don’t know/never heard of any good beaches in the southern state of johor (malaysia) apart from ‘desa ru’ which is supposed to be OK.
if you have more time, get a flight/boat to tioman island which is quite beautiful.
have fun.
p.s capri from napoli is a great choice for an escapade. I love capri (if only my memory of it is not tainted by the proposal of a failed marriage in grotto azura)