We arrived late at night courtesy of the Stansted to Zadar Ryan Air flight on Thursday September 3rd. We were craned into the water at 1030am the next morning and got moored up on Pier 16 just before the storm hit, about the same time that the dozens of charter boats were returning at the end of their weeks holiday. Chaos ensued for the next couple of hours as 50 knot winds chased torrential rain, thunder and lightning and visibility was reduced to a boat length. Boats were all over the place, we learned later that one sank in the adjacent bay. Then it was calm again underneath a still dark and angry sky.
We spent a couple of days organising the boat, getting a tiny Smart car to enable us to go shopping to provision the boat for the next three weeks sailing. Making good use of the car we went up the coast north of Zadar to visit the charming small town of Nin. Established in Roman times it was one of the first Croat settlements with a fine gated entrance and plenty of old town wall still standing. Cars were all parked outside the town walls which made for very pleasant wandering around even though we were dodging torrential downpours.
We took pictures of the small 9th century church of the Holy Cross, a pre-Romanesque of typically Croatian style. The town had one main street, pretty with cafes and souvenir shops and the views out to sea were beautifully framed by the dark sky. The main business of the area established in Middle Ages era was salt trading and round and about was lots of evidence of this.
Deja Vu 
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