Pula is beautiful! Feels just like being somewhere in Italy – really confusing. Roman buildings all around, palm trees, hilly narrow streets with scooters, a big Amphitheatre, mediterranean flair, plus a huge port and beaches. Yeah!
Two days ago I took the train from Belgrade to Zagreb. Big thanks to all the wonderful people in Beograd that helped me with accomodation and having great two weeks in the city of Danube and Save after all: Ljubica, Sasha, Branka, Jelena & Milosh, Goran, Sanya, Igor, Hauke, Tanya & Djole, Milan, Dina, Maya, Branko, Ivana & Mauro (and many more). No thanks to the brutal airheads in the former “Rebel house” and the bus ticket inspector that tried to rip me off for using a wrong (more expensive!) ticket. After some 20 minutes of haggling and him threatening to call the police I just walked off telling him I will call my “advokat” now. He gave up and handed me back my ID card.
In Zagreb Javier who just came from Barcelona picked me up from the train station and we went to the “Villa Kiseljak”. Finally a real squat! A nice house with some green around it, loads of arty junk in the garden and on the walls. Nice music coming from an old record player, the little outlandish residents sitting beside the oven in the central room, a library, a working kitchen, water from canisters and a dog.
This morning Javier and me hitchhiked the 250 km to Pula in just 5 hours. We had a look around the huge Roitsh barracs and “Monte Paradiso” (a floor inside the baracks) where we will stay for the next six weeks until the EYFA winter meeting. At the moment I am in the HackLab inside the baracks which provides free Internet to the people, on Linux computers. I will now see if I can connect my laptop here.. 🙂