Season is still on, another season is just beginning.

October on the way, September left behind. I visited Finland for couple of weeks, enjoyed autumn colors in Lapland and hiking in the fells for one week. Almost 90km of hiking in the amazing wilderness, also my little Tiuku managed that with the help of activating smells of reindeer from time to time. Pretty good from that 13-year-old grannydog. It was nice to recover from all the traveling on the nearby beach after returning back home. Even though the weather is no longer summer hot, 23 degrees and the sun shining from the blue sky makes it quite nice. Even so nice and warm that time to time one needed a splash in the cooling sea. The dog I mean, the owner merely watered the toes and then focused on reading the book on dry land. After the refreshing dip, she was again happy to enjoy the lovely heat of the sun. Especially when there was nice and peaceful at the beach, gone were the towel camps and colorful sunshades.

Here on the Adriatic coast October means that the summer season will inevitably get closer to an end. The first restaurants and beach bars have already closed their doors and fallen into the winter hibernation for the coming months. Yesterday we went to have dinner to our nearby beach restaurant and almost all tables were taken. When the options are reduced, there are enough customers for those who still keep their doors open. It looks also that this year the season is stretching to bit further than usual. More and more people have figured out how brilliant time this is to come here: there are not too many people around, the weather is superb for everything more active than just lying on the beach and the nature has woken out of the coma caused by heat and dryness after getting some rain. Friend of mine who arranges tourist activities said that they have reservation books almost full until November, and that has not been the case before. This is a perfect time to visit national parks and other cool places here, also still it´s nice to take a boat trip to visit the nearby islands like Brač or Hvar. 

One activity I can now highly recommend is a zip line in Omiš. A total of over two kilometers of airborne trails in eight individual slides. Around and below you such a spectacular scenery. At some point you find yourself quite high above the ground but at least I was not feeling afraid even though I´m definitely not an adrenaline junkie. Skillful guides, clear instructions and trustworthy looking equipment provided a sense of security. I was well able to concentrate on enjoying the amazing views provided by nature while gliding up in the air, head turning from side to side and the mental camera taking images to be remembered later. 

Omiš is about twenty kilometers south of Split and you can easily reach it by the coastal road. In the absence of your own car the bus number 60 takes you there from Split or you can book an organized excursion with the transport. The zip line itself is then a few kilometers from the center of Omiš and the guides will take you there from their office. Whole excursion will take about three hours and after it´s over you can enjoy lunch on some of the narrow streets of old Omiš and revise the great glides you just experienced.

There we glided, to the opposite side over the river. What an amazing view!

If the touristic season starts to slow down, the construction sites are just coming back to alive. The construction projects that were suspended due to the summer season have again been authorized to proceed and number of sites that looked totally abandoned are again full of activity. In just a few days, the large brick walled house-to-be nearby has got a green insulation cover. Even here people are gradually starting to understand the benefits of house insulation. Let's see what kind of surface that house will get at the end. Another project that I´m quite forced to closely follow is the one just next to our apartment. There is an intersection that they partially modified in the spring already but now it is intended to carry out a bit bigger reformation. The surveyors were already measuring the site and they marked the street how much to lift there and to lower at the other mark. Now we just have to wait and see when the actual work begins. It may be tomorrow, may be the coming spring or just as well this time next year. At that case though, the markings on the street may have slightly faded.