Today, early in the morning, I walked to a small grocery store, the nearest one to the house in which I live. I had to walk 300 or 400 meters to get there.
In this post, I'll show you some stuff I photographed along the way. You can see the front of the store I mentioned before in this opening picture.
I found these bottlecaps near the entrance of the store.
Not far from the bottlecaps, I photographed a bunch of empty bottles that once contained a local, Croatian brand of beer, and a pack of Red Marlboro with no cigarettes in it. Quite a few people from the town and surroundings avoid cafes & bars and prefer to drink their beer here, in front of the store. Is less expensive and the place offers a nice relaxed atmosphere. No intrusive, often stupid, irritating pop music. No gambling machines or other noisy stuff. When I was younger, more prone to drinking, and much more social than now, I also liked to get a beer or a small bottle of something stronger in front of grocery stores from time to time.
Nowadays, you can see the workers from the construction sites in the area. They always come around noon and stay for half an hour or less. You can also see some retired people. They like to come in the late afternoon if the weather is good. Unemployed people come and go in relatively unpredictable patterns.
Sometimes you can find the remains of kids' drinks on the stairs in front of the store. Kids from the neighborhood also can be seen hanging here for half an hour or so, before returning home from elementary school.
I photographed these apartment buildings nearby, less than fifty meters from the store. Most buildings of this type and style were made to be rented in summer, during the tourist season, when Medulin, my hometown, becomes a very crowded place.
A bit further along the road, I photographed this line of older, family homes.
The terrace of one of those houses is constantly guarded by a bunch of lions.
From a distance, they can pass as menacing wild cats, but if you zoom in on the scene, and take a good up-close look at the statues, the lions are a bit weird. I don't know, there is something monkey-like or humanoid in those roaring faces.
Here you can see another larger building. This one is situated on the main road that leads from the old, compact town on the hill to the harbor and the beaches. It was built in the early eighties and was a small hotel until a decade or so ago. Its rooms and apartments are still rented to tourists but it hasn't any additional hotel services to offer.
A dolphin was frozen in jump a bit further. The cetacean is here to advertise the restaurant called " The Blue Dolphin". The place is open only in summer.
I was walking uphill, toward my neighborhood, when this and the previous photograph were taken. The hill isn't steep, so the picture doesn't give a strong "uphill" feel.
Here you can see the bay, a fisherman, and some houses of Medulin ...
... painted on the lower part of the "Blue Dolphin" front facade.
Some work was still in progress on the neighboring wall. Some kind of repair work or some construction activity that has something to do with installations. I don't know, not an expert in that stuff. But I know a thing or two about visual arts, that's my field professionally, and I can tell you that someone created a nice piece of abstract artwork here, knowingly or not. 😆
A bit further up that road, I photographed a line of copy-paste apartment buildings.
These were built five or six years ago, if I remember well, which is possible but far from being guaranteed.
Another fifty or so meters further, I came across this lovely old car parked on the porch of one of the houses on that street. A beetle, I think, is the name of this little machine.
An old Mercedes was displayed in the yard of the same property.
This was once a small grocery store situated considerably closer to my house. It was closed for good a couple of years ago.
This is just another house along the road. The house is at least fifteen years old, but its color is brand new. It was changed a month or two ago.
Here you can see the road and a friend that was there with me.
In this photograph, I zoomed in on some houses in that area.
Here you can see some big flower pots and a sculpture on the little square.
At this point ...
... I almost reached my destination.
A few minutes later, I was back home.
AND THAT'S IT. HOPE YOU ENJOYED THIS MORNING'S TOUR THROUGH THE SMALL, SEASIDE TOWN IN WHICH I LIVE. AS ALWAYS HERE ON HIVE, THE PHOTOGRAPHS ARE MY WORK.
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