Rijeka

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And Kia ora from Rijeka.

Rijeka.

Rijeka.

Rijeka.

We're having waffles for breakfast and enjoying listening to you lot.

We've been away for a while, so it is nice to hear your voice.

In the same season, the Croatian top three teams were separated by two points at the end of the season.

Rijeka won the league, Dinamo Zagreb and Hadjic Split just behind them.

Rijeka played 14 Croatians aged 23 or younger throughout the campaign, with six of them playing at least 20 matches.

Dinamo Zagreb, second place in the league, played 15 Croatian boys aged 23 or younger throughout the season, including seven teenagers.

Four 20 or 21-year-olds played at least 30 games.

This kind of self-sufficiency was both practical, since importing clothing from abroad could be costly, and philosophical because they didn’t want to buy into the consumer culture that the state tried to regulate.

Politically, punk in Yugoslavia was a voice of dissent, but it also embraced regional identities, like Croatians playing in Rijeka, Slovenians in Ljubljana, or Bosnians singing about Sarajevo’s multicultural reality.

That regional identity was reflected in language.

Songs were recorded in Serbian, Croatian, Slovenian, and even Bosnian.

That was punk written out of fear, but played with reckless confidence.

Just two months later, Karaf rolled off the line from Rijeka.

They were a post-punk outfit that took their guitar tone straight out of the UK and smashed it onto Yugoslav radio, where most airwaves had still been filled by state-sanctioned pop.

Meanwhile, Pekinška Patka in Novi Sad pulled the spotlight toward a more visceral aesthetic.

It’s a game changer.

The handbook was published in Rijeka, Croatia, by a publisher called Intech back in early twenty-fourteen.

But the most crucial detail is that it was published under a Creative Commons Attribution three-point-oh license.

This is a vital mechanic for the audience to grasp, especially students who are used to paying exorbitant prices for medical literature.

Like, they were eliminated by teams who are, in the grand scheme of things, quite good.

Like, Derry are going out to Rijeka.

Shelbourne getting knocked out against Ajax.

Got a draw against Ajax in that game.

Fiji's Maori Pomeroy Farrell has made history by winning the country's first-ever medal at a World Aquatics World Championships.

Fiji One News says Pomeroy Farrell won bronze in the boys three-meter springboard at the World Aquatics Junior Diving Championships in Rijeka, Croatia, scoring forty, uh, four hundred and ninety point five zero points in the final.

The achievement comes three years after he made another piece of Fijian diving history when he became the first diver to represent Fiji at World Aquatics Championships, competing at the World Championships in Fukuoka in 2023.

Pomeroy Farrell has been developing his diving career in Mexico after moving there with his mother, Renata, from Canada in 2019.

I've read that the population of the town is about 2,000, and in winter, I imagine it feels even smaller.

But I've also read that the island is depopulating, that young people leave for Rijeka or Zagreb or abroad, and the ones who stay are the ones who love the quiet.

I'm starting to think I might be one of them.

After lunch, I walked along the riva toward the melon beach, past the Friday market stalls being set up for the afternoon.

A father and son were fishing off the pier, and every few minutes the boy would wheel in something small and shiny and yell for his father to leave.

It was the kind of afternoon that makes you forget the world exists outside this bay.

I swam back in and walked through the old town to the Moise Palace, which the University of Rijeka runs as a research and exhibition space.

There was a small exhibition about the island's olive oil traditions, with jars of oil from different villages and photographs of ancient trees.