Croatia (Yugoslavia) - Split - April 1970

Doesn't this look idyllic!  This is where we pulled off the road to sleep our first night in Yugoslavia, right in the middle of these Olive Trees.  Lovely and peaceful it was too.  Till the next morning!

So we'd woken up, got ourselves dressed and I ducked below the taxi to pee.  There I was, pants down and in a squat position when I heard this man shouting at me, it wasn't just a man it was a soldier pointing a rifle in my direction... YIKES!  Of course I had no idea what he was shouting but I got the message and quickly pulled up my pants and hurried back to the taxi where David was and saw another soldier sitting in a jeep. 

We indicated that we were heading south and off they went.   Phew!  When I asked David why he hadn't stopped him, he just said... 'He had a gun!'   Mmmmm....

Lets get away from that Olive Grove quick smart!  Heading for Split.

I'm not having much luck finding these same places on Google Maps, they haven't taken their camera in to these old Yugoslavian countries so no luck.

P.S.  A kind reader found this photo on my blog and wrote the below...
' great blog, love the photos.
regarding photo no. 4, it is Trogir, not Split. these days it looks like this'

 And sent links to these two photos... Just beautiful!   Thank you...

 

Lots of farming going on in these hills.

Google Maps from Rijeka to Split.