Cliff Jumping in Primosten

A few minute cab ride away from Kremik is the beautiful old city of Primosten (“Pre-mo-shten”) that appears to be a walled city on top of a small promontory. The old city is full of restaurants and shops and a beautiful church with cemetery. Outside the old city is a slightly more modern one – Croatia is trying to keep its cities looking similar so much of the architecture is built with clay brick with a rock façade, so the new buildings are in keeping with the existing ones. I think it’s a good idea and provides homogeneity of visuals that you just don’t see in a place like Vancouver.

On the path around Primosten are cliffs that Ross just had to jump off. I reckon they’re about 7 or 8 meters high – maybe 10 if you jump off the path, with a good landing down below. Ross has a video of it on his facebook page if you want to take a look.

We came back from a great day at Primosten and then met up with new friends David and Irene from Switzerland. They’re moving back to Switzerland from upstate New York via two months sailing in the Adriatic and Med on a chartered 40 foot boat (with a generator and airconditioning). They’re engaged to be married and came over after dinner with a 1litre bottle of schnapps that didn’t need recorking once opened, and a great tradition of rope bracelets for each country they visit – and they placed rope bracelets on Jessie’s and Ross’ wrists. They’re just about the age that we were when we got married and started having kids … I gave them the “kids are the best thing ….” Speech … of course followed the next morning by me yelling at my kids because they were driving us crazy!

The key to keeping sanity on the boat is constant activity. When there is nothing to do Ross decides to torment his sister, followed by his father, and eventually his mother – until we all gang up on him and he is satisfied that he’s accomplished his mission – “to drive us all crazy!!!” something I think his buddy Hayden has taught him to do to perfection.

When there is lots to do there is teamwork and fun … so our mission is to constantly find new things to do.