The map is somewhat misleading because what you see north of the city is a mountain chain, so it's not really as flat as it looks.
Glad you liked those Flickr pictures... I shot these last year and the year before. I'll make sure to upload some nice ones from this year again!
I speak somewhat Croatian... I understand it better than I do speak. I am half-Croatian, so I feel obliged to improve my knowledge of this language one day. Right now there are a lot of US Americans in town, I guess it is already holiday season for some. Europeans, like Germans and Austrians usually don't come here in hordes before mid-July.
Reading right now
Longitude by Dava Sobel, and
The Liveship Traders by Robin Hobb. The only problem is that I don't know if my PDA will survive the heat on the beach. Even in the shade it isn't exactly cool
