Joined: 16 Nov 2007 Posts: 790 Location: Bergerac, France.
Posted: Wed 09 Jan, 2013 11:00 am
You nearly made me cry!
I think it was the summer of 1972 in Nin N.O. of Zadar.
With tree Yugoslav (that's the way we said at this time) friends of my age, we used to spend our afternoons picking up seashells in the mud - At this time mud baths were very famous - then we used to go and wash on the beach and eat our shells.
In the evening we used to go on the terraces of cafés and sing songs. Among these songs was "La musica di notte" and "Pusti Da Ti Leut Svira" nearly each time we sang the last one, people started singing with us, people in the café and people in the street. It was an incredible ambiance.
People offered drink '(white wine) and food. We were singing until late in the night and then went to sleep on the beach. The afternoon we go again for fishing in the mud baths... and so on...
In 1996 I went back there with my family. Most of the mud was over grown with grass and very few people were mud bathing. The cafés were still there but with many tourists not only locals like 24 years before.
I went back again in 2004 to take pictures in paramotor (PPG).
An other year, after the civil war, I was at the lakes of Ploče and spend an evening with youngs around 20 y.o. that were not born in 1972. When I spoke of this two songs they immediately began to sing. I think it is part of their culture for ever.
Joined: 03 May 2008 Posts: 453 Location: Slovak Republic
Posted: Wed 09 Jan, 2013 2:26 pm
From the times of former Yugoslavia, the thing - I remember most, is great comedy Vruc vetar. I really enjoyed to watch that series in former Czechoslovakia TV.
I was only a young kid back in the early 70's, but was already listening to my older brothers records...
