Borik
(Place, tavern, firm, Yugoslavia)
A camping site in Zadar, now Croatia, where we spent many summers between 1969 and 1978 (plus my parents went a few more times, once or twice taking Go with them). Several people, with whom I frequently met later, I first met there.
The camp was so... an afterthought of the local hospitality enterprise, even though it brought much more revenue at much lower prices, because the investment was minimal. There were access roads, the reception, the wet knots*, electricity was distributed throughout so the guests could hook up their trailers, but all of that had to be done for the hotels as well, and probably tenfold at least. And, um, bor is pine, it got its name after the tall pinewood which covered about one third of it. Around 1968 they planted more trees everywhere, though mostly not pines, but rather something deciduous and faster growing.
It had its own express restaurant, exactly where the end of the internal main road meets the beach. I ate there maybe once, some spaghetti or so - had we had money for tavern, we wouldn't camp. Wasn't bad at all, the foreigners dined there en masse, the business was brisk, even sometimes in the evening some local guitar entertainer would plug his 30W amp and entertain the guests, all sang along. There were no ashtrays, the whole place was called The Ashtray, for all we know.
The camp was designed for 4000 guests, but due to the european parking and packing skills, 7000 during the full season was the norm. And still the camp was mentioned by the way, never as the main feature - they were so proud of their hotels.
About those wet knots: the ones built first had čučavac, the later ones the crappers. Same old story: we always put our tents on the hotel side half, where the former are.
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* what the water mains and sewers terminal is called as a whole - in this case, toilets, faucets, shower cabins.
Mentions: july 1969., 15-VII-1969., 28-VI-1970., 03-VII-1970., and the following days, 07-VII-1970., or thereabouts, 01-VII-1971., 21-VII-1971., and the rest of those days., august 1971., 01-VIII-1971., 10-VIII-1971., 17-VIII-1971., 27-XI-1971., july 1972., Vacation, intro., 01-VII-1972., 22-XII-1972., 29-I-1973., 05-VII-1973., 29-XI-1973., 27-I-1974., 19-II-1974., august 1974., Vacation enforcement, 21-XI-1974., 05-VII-1975., 07-VII-1975., 08-VII-1975., until about 24th, 23-VIII-1975., 12 -II-1976., 26-VIII-1976., july 1978., 26-VIII-1978., 28-VI-1979., july 1979., 15-VIII-1981., 13-XII-1981., 13-VII-1985., 15-I-1988., 22-VII-2001., 12-IV-2003., Ariejan Verschoor (Arie), čučavac, Geraldine van Grijven (The Lady), Gorana Sredljević (Go), Melanija Merćep (Lajna), Rudolf Ochsner, Slanislav Dunjić (Nisla), Zadar, Živa Ravajlović, in serbian
24-I-2010 - 15-IV-2026