Porec Off The Beaten Path

This is another mysterious art work ! If we had been in Belgium, I would have identified it as a beer pump. In Porec, I would bet again for a sea cucumber, Holoturia tubulosa. It has now given up playing with a Frisbee, is standing, trying to juggle with a deckchair

The interpretation of this work of art is much easier than the others. Everybody will agree with the fact that it represents a mother playing with her child though a mischievous seagull has deposited a trickling dropping on her head. She should pay attention to the cellulites that is beginning to invade her thighs.

This statue, close to the port, seems to represent a mother (or a father) that tries to protect her (his) young son (or girl), but I might be completely wrong. Again, has any one an idea of the answer ?

For this one, I have no doubt as there are so many around, on the sea floor. It is an holothuria or sea cucumber, Holoturia tubulosa trying to play with a frisbee ! Usually, they do not try to play frisbee when there are tourists around. It is so difficult for an armless harmless beeing ! They are ashamed of their clumsiness and hide.

I have often seen this type of chimney in Istria and have never seen it elsewhere. It seems to use a very sophisticated technique with side entrances for the air that might produce a Venturi effect and improve the draught of the chimney. I would like to see more closely how it works but the roofs are high !

Very close to the Pentagonal Tower, I have carefully looked this artistic object on every angle, though it has no angles, but I have been unable to determine what it was supposed to represent or what it meant. Any idea ?

While most visitors are still sleeping, waste collection has to proceed, even in the Decumanus. So much visitors, so much waste, nothing can hamper that hard fact ! The city has to be perfectly clean for its visitors (and for its inhabitants, too !) and it is.

I spotted this bather's statue, in front of a bank, behind a few bushes. She seemed to be awaiting for something ! Suddenly, I realized ''Thalassa, thalassa'' ! She is waiting for water ! Bathers are always looking for water ! I did not notice at first that the poor girl was sitting in the center of a should-be fountain that is not. She has better rely on rain than on men's water !