This is what I see as soon as I turn left from my AirBnB here in the least famous village on earth called Vidrenjak:
Don't rush to judge me as snobbish, I never implied that fame comes with quality. Besides, I wish in my hometown we still had low houses with yards and gardens like they do here:
What I don't envy at all is those deep drains waiting to swallow someone on their unlucky day:
In this quiet and silent village the following scene feels awkward:
That's a burnt car over there:
Fortunately the rest of the houses have much better decorative bits around them:
Even the local car repair has a rather cute sign for a shop like this, at least way better than the Greek ones tend to:
I leave the main road to check out the backstreets. Not that there's too much traffic on the main one anyway but I'm always intrigued to see things from the "inside":
A few unfinished houses around, waiting to host people looking for some quiet living when they're finished:
And some neglected old ones with lots of stories to tell:
While others hide behind dense vegetation like this next one:
Almost all of them have a water well, especially the old ones. You find them even in abandoned field like this one:
Water resources are beyond plenty in Croatia and here it feels like you find water if you dig just a couple of meters deep. And yes, it's laughable to even ask if tap water is OK, it is country wide.
It's a super grey day and the shades of Green try to fight the weather's gloomy colours:
Steps later I am able to see in the distance one of the local attractions and highest buildings (yet not that high), St. Michael's church:
The pros of low/small houses...
I'll definitely check out the church later but now I am attract by the local fields and how much view these unbuilt areas allow:
You see was born and spent most of my life in a big city so this is the perfect opposite and attracts my attention effortlesly.
Same goes for old houses like this:
I'm getting closer to the local church while this new house looks like an eye candy to me:
These guys here see so much flat green on a daily basis:
And their lucky kids can play in this backyard. Hope they get well with their new neighbours when that property on the left next to them is finished:
This house has no neighbours at all but no residents either as it hasn't been lived for god knows how long:
Closer to the church, closer to one more new nice house, especially if you like shades of peanut:
Next to it is a plant nursery business and their truck is the first I see with 4 small rear wheels instead of a pair of normal ones. Plus they seem to have a retractable suspension:
Those greenhouses look indifferent from outside,
but they sure have lots of cuties inside:
Even closer to the church, I notice that the Croatian flag is anything but a rarity on the local balconies:
Finally I'm only a block away from that church:
And it makes such a combo with that old house from this viewing angle:
It's not just an old house, it's an abandoned one that looks as if it came out of a season movie scene:
The church is much more maintained, looking as it was just painted:
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Sorry for the tilted images but was kinda too tall to fit in one frame. Here's one more pair:
I don't know why but it seems that almost all the buildings around the church are abandoned. Are the bells too loud?🙂 Weird:
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As I step away from the church life goes back to normal...or shall I'd better say life comes back?:
See how lucky kids can be here with a DIY football field like this in their exclusive disposal:
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(You can see a pair of goalposts if you open the images)
But the gardens of the rest ones are definitely not bad either:
Here's where the local football magic happens, at the FC Sokol:
Looks far enough from the church:
This doesn't mean that the abandoned houses are over though:
Croatian flags again...I start wondering if they have them all year waving like this:
Well, turns out it's their national celebration today!
No church here, there's only the local cafe bar instead so this looks a little odd to me:
Green and grey all the way on a day like today:
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Time to go back for some cooking before I feed myself and rest. The chef (me) today has mushrooms and potato done in the oven with some parsley and olive oil:
Bon Appetit, hope you got an idea about the area I'm in, see you on the next one cause there's more to see!
Thanks for re-sharing!
You are welcome dear @orestistrips. Cheers! 😀
Very quaint and old fashioned looking church and homes. It looks like you just traveled back in time into the past.. lovely to have so much private space all around, for us city dwellers that would be pure luxury.
Great share!
I'm really glad you resonated with it. Thanks for your kind words!
a charming place, I like more rural scenes like these no high rises just single level houses
thoise deep ditches can be treacherous we had similar when I lived in Singapore one night after too many drinks I did fall in one LOL
I like single houses too. It feels so much more humane like this. I'm glad you liked this.
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