Mother and daughter day off

We woke up early for another 6.30 am swim. Water all to ourselves at that hour. Breakfast then Steve went on farm tour. They're doing pig farm with prosciutto and olive farm. Then a tour of old Pula.
Mum and I had day off.
Found a nearby post office and mum posted a box back home.
Went down to nearby water, can't call it a beach, and had a lovely swim. We had lunch there at their beach lounge bar, then another swim. 37 degrees today.
Came home for a cuppa and changed clothes.
I went for walk along shops to the more touristy area and back.

The Story of the Maiden and the Seagull statue.

On the promontory in front of the one-time cemetery a girl extends her arm to a gull. This, however, is a new sculpture, the work of a sculptor Car, and it was erected here in 1956 and turned into one of Opatija’s symbols. Before that, in its place, namely until demolished by a storm, stood the “Madonna del Mare”, the work of sculptor Rathausky from Graz (his also is the fountain “Helios and Selene” in the park between St. Jacob’s Church and hotel Imperial). The “Madonna” was erected to keep vigil over the soul of count Arthur Kesselstadt, who vanished, not far off from that promontory swallowed by the pre-Easter waves in 1891. During that excursion the contess Fries also lost her life, but her son Georg was saved.Read more