Camping Pod Maslinom, Croatia
(http://www.orasac.com/)
We chose this campsite for our base while we visited the Croatian city of Dubrovnik, why? It’s a terraced site with great views over the Adriatic sea. The bus stop is at the gate and only a 2 euro bus ride into the old town. For those who want to keep the body in shape a steep run down to the quietest beach, but coming back up is what gets the heart pumping. Great big pitches that ticked all the boxes for us, and a nearby mini-mart with fresh veg and vino. Added bonus-Great Sunsets. Camping Pod Maslinom
Dubrovnic
Croatia fought for its independence during the breakup of Yugoslavia in 1991 gaining recognition from the EU later that year. The old town was severely damaged during that campaign, but you wouldn’t have known during our visit.
It was a pleasure to walk around this historical and well-preserved town, or should I say well-restored, not sure… it has been around for a loooong time and withstood attempted invasions from a lot of other people too.
We had to be careful we didn’t get bowled over by the cruise ship tour groups that waddle through the town completely oblivious to anyone else and looking so bored. If you haven’t been definitely put it on your bucket list. Camping Pod Maslinom
Fabian Foley, Author
My wife has always wanted to write but there was always something holding her back. To find out a bit more about why here is a link to her webpage where she explains the reasons.
https://fabianfoley.com/
Her book is presently listed in presales on Amazon, Apple Books, Banes & Noble, KOBO, and Smashwords to name a few. Due for release in early 2023.
When nowhere is safe in the world you know, you have to hide… or start making a new one.
Robert is eleven when his best friend dies and he learns that if he wants to survive in the world he has to be ‘normal’. He buries his feelings, his awful childhood memories, and his suspicion that he is gay. Even when he falls in love with Johnny, he pretends it isn’t happening, and buries those feelings too, choosing safety in the closet, a career as a lawyer, a wife and kids, and suburban happy ever after… Until Johnny returns needing help, and then disappears, and Robert’s façade begins to crack in heartbreaking and dreadful circumstances.
Only one other person saw what happened that night, and after being arrested for drunk and disorderly, he disappears.
Trying to keep his secret and himself safe isn’t Robert’s only priority. He wants justice too. But when the police force is corrupt from the top down, justice isn’t merely elusive, it’s an impossibility. Or so it seems when you’re fighting for yourself alone. But other people have been fighting for justice too. If Robert can convince them to help him, together they may set something unstoppable in motion. It will either run down the corrupt police or run over and destroy Robert’s life.
Inspired by the true story of a suicide that was reclassified thirty years later as a gay hate-crime murder, The Outing is set in 1980s Queensland, (Australia), where corrupt police and politicians rule together, with an audacious disregard for the law. It shares poignant and emotional elements of Douglas Stuart’s Shuggie Bain and Craig Silvey’s trans-coming-of-age novel Honeybee, with the suspense of The Dry by Jane Harper, while drawing on the historical facts leading up to the airing of the dirty linen of the Bjelke-Peterson era with the broadcasting of The Moonlight State-1987.
Breaking a corrupt system can sometimes break you, and those you love… some, forever.
