River Buna Revisited / Rijeka Buna ponovni posjet

About a week ago, we decided to head out to banks of river Buna. It is the perfect getaway when we only have an hour or two to spare. Weather that day was very odd. It was quite windy but quite warm. It is always tricky to get dressed for that kind of weather.  I decided to wear a retro girly outfit, a sort of school uniform. I kind of felt like a young lady at the begging of the last century. I've had this silver silk blouse for a long time and I still love it. I think it is the only silk clothing item in my closet. The funny thing is that the wind kept undoing  the bow on my blouse, so I had to tie it over and over again.  Apart from that, this was the perfect outfit for that day.I know that the poloneck that is visible under the blouse won't be to everyone's liking, but I love wearing them like that. I felt very comfortable wearing this. I must have worn this vintage skirt a hundred of times, but I just can't get bored of it. 

Prije otprilike tjedan dana, odlučili smo otići do Bune. To je savršeno mjesto za opustiti se kada imamo samo sat ili dva na raspolaganju. Vrijeme je toga dana bilo veoma čudno. Bilo je poprilično vjetrovito, ali toplo. Nije se lako odijenuti za takvo vrijeme. Odlučila sam se za djevojačku kombinaciju u retro stilu, neku verziju školske uniforme. Osjećala sam se pomalo kao mlada dama na početku prošloga stoljeća. Ovu srebrnu svilenu bluzu imam već dugo vremena i još uvijek je volim nositi.  Mislim da je to jednini svileni odjevni predmet u mome ormaru. Smiješno je bilo to što mi se mašna (fijok) na bluzi stalno odvezivao zbog vjetra, pa sam ga morala ponovo i ponovo vezati. Ovo je i uz to bila idealna kombinacija za taj dan čini mi se. Znam da se svima ne sviđa nošenje dolčevite ispod bluze, ali ja ih volim tako nositi.  Baš mi je bilo ugodno u ovoj kombinaciji. Sigurno sam ovu vintage suknju nosila stotinu puta, ali nikako da mi dosadi.

poloneck/dolčevita: Zara, blouse/bluza: old, skirt/suknja: vintage, blazer/ sako: old, bag/torba +shoes/cipele: not branded, nisu markirane

SOMEHOW THIS OUFIT MAKES ME THINK OF JANE AUSTEN AND HER NOVELS 

“Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.”

I ALMOST FELT LIKE A HEROINE OF PRIDE AND PREJUDICE WEARING THIS!

“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.”

Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle. As a child I was taught what was right, but I was not taught to correct my temper. I was given good principles, but left to follow them in pride and conceit. Unfortunately an only son (for many years an only child), I was spoilt by my parents, who, though good themselves (my father, particularly, all that was benevolent and amiable), allowed, encouraged, almost taught me to be selfish and overbearing; to care for none beyond my own family circle; to think meanly of all the rest of the world; to wish at least to think meanly of their sense and worth compared with my own. Such I was, from eight to eight and twenty; and such I might still have been but for you, dearest, loveliest Elizabeth! What do I not owe you! You taught me a lesson, hard indeed at first, but most advantageous. By you, I was properly humbled. I came to you without a doubt of my reception. You showed me how insufficient were all my pretensions to please a woman worthy of being pleased.”

 Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“Occupied in observing Mr. Bingley’s attentions to her sister, Elizabeth was far from suspecting that she was herself becoming an object of some interest in the eyes of his friend. Mr. Darcy had at first scarcely allowed her to be pretty: he had looked at her without admiration at the ball; and when they next met, he looked at her only to criticise. But no sooner had he made it clear to himself and his friends that she had hardly a good feature in her face, than he began to find it was rendered uncommonly intelligent by the beautiful expression of her dark eyes. To this discovery succeeded some others equally mortifying. Though he had detected with a critical eye more than one failure of perfect symmetry in her form, he was forced to acknowledge her figure to be light and pleasing; and in spite of his asserting that her manners were not those of the fashionable world, he was caught by their easy playfulness. Of this she was perfectly unaware: to her he was only the man who made himself agreeable nowhere, and who had not thought her handsome enough to dance with.”
 Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

Paradise revisited. Buna river revisited. It is fascinating how the landscape changes with the change of seasons. The little bridge in front of the restaurant Kolo where we took a number of photos this Summer and Autumn (here ) has been set aside as there is no need to for it now. The river flooded the "little island" where the guests of this restaurant enjoyed their meals. However, this place is just as beautiful in Winter as it is Autumn, Spring and Summer. Every season has its magic...and the magic of that the time in between the seasons is pretty potent, isn't it? It seems that time has arrived. Moreover, despite the fact that the river flooded the "island", I could smell the Spring in the air. It won't be long now. It is time to say goodbye to Winter.

Ponovni posjet raju, ponovni posjet Buni. Zanimljivo je kako se krajolik mijenja s godišnjim dobima. Mali most ispred restorana Kolo gdje smo se slikali često ovog ljeta i jeseni (ovdje ) nije u upotrebi jer za njim i nema potrebe. Rijeka je poplavila "mali otočić" gdje su gosti restorana uživala u jelu. No, ovo je mjesto jednako lijepo zimi kao i u jesen, proljeće i ljeto. Svako godišnje doba ima svoju čaroliju, a i ona čarolija na prijelazu godišnjih doba je poprilično jaka, zar ne?  Čini mi se da je to vrijeme stiglo. Štoviše, unatoč tome što je rijeka potopila otočić, mogla sam namisirati proljeće u zraku. Uskoro će stići. Vrijeme je da se oprostimo od zime.

poloneck/dolčevita: Zara, blouse/bluza: old, skirt/suknja: vintage, blazer/ sako: old, bag/torba +shoes/cipele: not branded, nisu markirane

poloneck/dolčevita: Zara, blouse/bluza: old, skirt/suknja: vintage, blazer/ sako: old, bag/torba +shoes/cipele: not branded, nisu markirane