It’s Saturday and another scorching hot day. Temperatures overnight in the van only fell to 26 degrees and even though we got an early start ready to pack up and move on tomorrow, it was at least 30 degrees in the shade as we pulled everything apart after our 3 weeks in Nin. Sue got her flight back to Southend and we are more or less prepared for our move to Krk island tomorrow.

Friday and we walked to the Salt Museum in Nin – in hindsight we should have driven as another baking hot day here on the Dalmatian coastline. The salt museum is still operational and produces some 3 million kg of salt each year using the traditional method of salt lakes and evaporation.

A series of interconnected ponds gradually increase the density of the salt as it passes from area to area until finally the brine concentration is so great that the salt crystalises and it is then manually harvested.

The production period is limited to 3 months of the year around June – August. The perfect conditions for such an operation rely upon abundant heat, a decent sea breeze to aid evaporation and little rain. Nin certainly ticks all of these boxes!

It turned out to be open day so we didn’t pay for the tour although we did buy rather a lot of different types of salt from the onsite shop. Bet we can’t taste the difference!

Lunch we shared a Pizza at Peperoni’s and dinner was at a nice restaurant overlooking the town of Nin and its coastline.

Thursday was a quiet day with lots of cooling off in the pool. In the evening we visited Zadar old town as we wanted to see the Solar display. Apart from the central light display, each of the planets of the solar system have their own light piece as they stretch along the promenade.

The Greeting to the Sun consists of three hundred multi-layered glass plates placed on the same level with the stone-paved waterfront in the shape of a 22-meter diameter circle. Under the glass conduction plates there are photo-voltaic solar modules through which symbolic communication with nature is made, with the aim to communicate with light, just like the Sea Organs do with sound.

The cathedral and tower also looked rather splendid after dark.

 

 

 

 

Wednesday we returned to Krka National Park. You can read about this in more detail in a previous blog post. However, on this occasion we drove to Skradin and took the boat into the National Park. This boat transfer is included in the standard entry price.

There are lots of parking “entrepreneurs” and we chose to park ours near to a restaurant. The parking was free so long as you produced a till receipt from the bar / restaurant – quite innovative we concluded.

A few more pictures from the return to Krka.

Tuesday another chill day with a late afternoon walk to the Church of St Nicholas, just on the outskirts of Nin.