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  • Day 217

    Bakar oil & torpedoes

    June 1, 2019 in Croatia ⋅ ☀️ 25 °C

    The roads around the seaside towns go round and round and up and down. This one is above the town of Bakar, now an oil and gas terminus - surprisingly not unsightly thanks to the vertical hills surrounding the inlet.
    A German Army unit equipped with large mobile dormitories, one in 3 vehicles, was on the move South accompanied by motorcycle outriders travelling in packs with their heads over the white dividing lines of the narrow roads and, naturally, at speed. Flocking Germans.

    My main port of call was Rijeka; to see the first torpedo launching station dating from the late 18thC, upgraded for the World Wars and, alas, abandoned ever since. In fact nobody really knew it even existed let alone where it could be found.
    But I did and here it is.
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