31. Foca

A lazy day in lovely Foca!

This is certainly the sort of place I could come and have a great holiday for a week or two.

Away from the awful resorts…just a small town full of life, colour, history and fishermen (& pelicans!)

With a lovely market selling fruit and veges, which all looked they been polished by hand.

And surrounded by hills inviting a long walk…

With boats heading out to visit nearby islands and beaches….but currently all very idle….as the season has yet to start! It might be different in the peak of summer…but I do not believe it would lose its charm.

Martin went for another swim. Somewhat masochistic in my view – not that Leopold von Sacher-Masoch would probably agree! – but then again, Martin is one who swims every day in the English channel, summer and winter! Mad is probably a more apposite descriptor! (..but apparently very good for you..if not for your scrotum!).

I didn’t. 

Shocked as I was diving into thirty degree water yesterday…to discover it had turned to ice!

So….a wander sufficed. The weather is ok…warmish one minute…but with a cool breeze the next. Still not weather one ventures out in without at least one extra layer in hand!

And one fantastic Durum for lunch…accompanied by a plateful of deliciously hot and juicy chillies, to add in as many as you want! Simple and delicious!

(….same for tea!!….)

3 Comments

  1. Alan

    You’ll be enjoying that rest in Foca particularly given the contrast with the dreadful industrial/real estate developments you’ve described. And more especially so after that the earlier traverse of the English countryside look-alike area – I wager there was no Fullers London Pride on offer however! I had to laugh at your description of your swim; I think that would be what my old Danish colleague would describe as minus 1cm day! Great to see Martin back in action, please pass on my regards.

  2. Alan Young

    Sorry, I should have provided some context around the Danish colleague (above). At the start of the Danish ” summer”, and following his morning dip in the Baltic Sea off Bornholm, Flemming Haagensen would report in………..generally, around mid-July, he would delight in a positive measurement………

  3. Mungo

    I’ve just binge-read from Kosovo – Foca . . . bloody amazing! Obviously I have some concerns about one or two aspects of the coverage, Iain’s clothes-sense, and excessive concern about tweezer related measurements and the consistency of your scrotum, which seems to have had a tough time – possibly more like seaweed than skin in the way it responds to the weather changes. North Macedonia and Foca sound like the places to be. I hope you’re having / have had some good down-time and bum recovery. If yours is a bit worn, mine would have disappeared in the first week – cycling on my ribcage by now. Say hi to Martin – looking good. Clearly the morning Channel swim keeps him fit and healthy. House sale still stuttering on . . . probably – it’s a hateful process.

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