Anyway, that was a long story. Taxi came at 5, plane left at 6:00 and landed 25 minutes later. I hopped on a bus into town and started walking into town which is about 20 minutes from the bus station. I was not impressed. I randomly took a route that was parallel to the water but not on it. I knew I was nearing the end of the peninsula where the old town is and started hearing an eerie sound coming from the embankment. It struck me that the sound was in sync with the pattern of the waves hitting shore and I remembered reading about a piece of landscape artwork in some exotic sounding place that created harmonic tones from the waves of the sea. It was in fact Zadar. I was suddenly impressed. The sea organ was built as part of a project to reclaim and improve the waterfront at the northern tip of Zadar. The installation includes another, visual piece called Salutation to the Sun. SttS is a big (20 yards?) circle of solar panel that does nothing during the day but lights up in different colors and panels based on the wave activity. Together these two things are amazing.
Friday, June 17, 2016
Getting to Zadar
pula was such a strange place. I stayed in a room above a furniture in a modern office park. It was there that I had a Phone related panic attack. Croatia uses the same kind of electricity as the rest of Europe (except you England! You always have to be different. Drive on the left, £, your stupid electrical plugs. Boy I hope Scotland Scexits the U.K. Aand joins Europe. But where was I? Yes, My phone problem in Pula.) but in Pula, my phone went haywire and wouldn't charge. Whether I was in my room, in the lobby of the furniture store or at a bar downtown, the phone displayed an error message saying that the charger didn't meet Apple's standards and it wasn't charging. Okay, dead phone. Big deal, right? Not when you have to get up at 4:45 to catch a flight to Zadar! The one day that I really needed my alarm and my battery wouldn't charge. When I was at the train station in Milan, for some reason I bought a €12 small battery booster pack, and guess what? It charged - even in Pula!
Anyway, that was a long story. Taxi came at 5, plane left at 6:00 and landed 25 minutes later. I hopped on a bus into town and started walking into town which is about 20 minutes from the bus station. I was not impressed. I randomly took a route that was parallel to the water but not on it. I knew I was nearing the end of the peninsula where the old town is and started hearing an eerie sound coming from the embankment. It struck me that the sound was in sync with the pattern of the waves hitting shore and I remembered reading about a piece of landscape artwork in some exotic sounding place that created harmonic tones from the waves of the sea. It was in fact Zadar. I was suddenly impressed. The sea organ was built as part of a project to reclaim and improve the waterfront at the northern tip of Zadar. The installation includes another, visual piece called Salutation to the Sun. SttS is a big (20 yards?) circle of solar panel that does nothing during the day but lights up in different colors and panels based on the wave activity. Together these two things are amazing.
Anyway, that was a long story. Taxi came at 5, plane left at 6:00 and landed 25 minutes later. I hopped on a bus into town and started walking into town which is about 20 minutes from the bus station. I was not impressed. I randomly took a route that was parallel to the water but not on it. I knew I was nearing the end of the peninsula where the old town is and started hearing an eerie sound coming from the embankment. It struck me that the sound was in sync with the pattern of the waves hitting shore and I remembered reading about a piece of landscape artwork in some exotic sounding place that created harmonic tones from the waves of the sea. It was in fact Zadar. I was suddenly impressed. The sea organ was built as part of a project to reclaim and improve the waterfront at the northern tip of Zadar. The installation includes another, visual piece called Salutation to the Sun. SttS is a big (20 yards?) circle of solar panel that does nothing during the day but lights up in different colors and panels based on the wave activity. Together these two things are amazing.
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