Kvarner Gulf

Within we entered without any contest, and I, whose inclination had to see what the condition such a fortress holds, soon as I was within cast round mine eye, and see on every hand an ample plain, full of distress and torment terrible.

Even as at Arles, where stagnant grows the Rhone, even as at Pola, near to the Quarnaro that shuts in Italy and bathes its borders, the sepulchres made all the place uneven; so likewise did they there on every side, saying that there the manner was more bitter.

For flames between the sepulchres were scattered, by which they so intensely heated were, that iron more so asks not any art.

All of their coverings uplifted were, and from them issued forth such dire laments, sooth seemed they of the wretched and tormented.

The catamaran from Mali-Lizin cuts across the Kvarner like a promise, and by the time we slide past the islands towards Zadar's Gazenika port, the sun has burned the morning haze off the water.

I've been on islands for almost two weeks, and I can feel the shift already.

Bigger sky, bigger harbor, a city humming with its own engines.

Within we entered without any contest, and I, whose inclination had to see what the condition such a fortress holds, soon as I was within cast round mine eye, and see on every hand an ample plain, full of distress and torment terrible.

Even as at Arles, where stagnant grows the Rhone, even as at Pola, near to the Quarnaro, that shuts in Italy and bathes its borders.

The sepulchres made all the place uneven; so likewise did they there on every side, saying that there the manner was more bitter.

For flames between the sepulchres were scattered, by which they so intensely heated were, that iron more so asks not any art.

The island is big, but the town is small, and by now I've learned its rhythms.

This morning started with a rumble of thunder over the Kvarner Bay, the kind that rolls around the hills for a while before deciding where to land.

I was having a coffee at Cafe Bar Arsene, right on the Mandracchio, watching the fishing boats pull in a little faster than usual.

The air had that heavy, green smell before rain.