Fri 5 Sep- discovering Kastav 1

Fri 5 Sep- it was good to be able to sleep in and recover from our busy day yesterday. We found the local grocery store just around the corner from our apartment, and the fruit & vegetable store just across the street from it. So we stocked up on some of the fruit and vegetable foods we like as a change from the restaurant food. Although most of the labels were in Croatian, the fruit and vegetables were easily identified. We could often guess pretty well what were the items we wanted by the packaging or the picture on the label, and often there was the English name in small type somewhere.
We had lunch at Vidikovac to investigate the Croatian cuisine. Kiyomi tried Velebitsko beer, Stan had the Toceno. We shared 'punjena paprika sir' (grilled green pepper), 'lignji na zaru', 'blitva na Dalmatia' (Swiss chard with potato and garlic), 'onbul na vine', 'krompir na maslacu', for a total of $36. It was all very tasty and interesting, much was variations on foods we are familiar with.
The TV in the apartment gets lots of channels, so we could catch up on news with CNN, Sky news, BBC World, CNBC Europe, and Eurosport. Since the US Open tennis was being broadcast, we got to see some exciting matches.