A protest for breakfast

We arrived Pula on the ferry late in the evening, pleasantly surprised by a very vibrant bustling old town, with its own amphitheater - housing the first night a full week of music festivals.  We decided that we should conquer the town in the morning, so we could enjoy all of its beauty and graceful age with sunrise. 

During our morning scout for food, we decided to grab breakfast in the town square.  We practically had the place to ourselves, and then we heard horns and whistles coming towards us - we thought it was an ambulance - only to learn a group of 200 or so shipworkers (all men) came to the town square with drums, horns, and bazookas to protest something, we couldn't quite understand - but given the way our waiter explained it by rubbing his index and middle fingers against his thumb - it all has to do with money.  They are ship workers, protesting , then a large group of people marched into the square.  One thing we know, they weren't chanting, "we love our employer".  There were news crews following them, so we will need to check out later and see if we can figure out what happened.  The shots below are 1. The protesters first emerging on the square, we thought there would only be a few, but check out 2. The protesters actually assembled in the main square.  No small fete.   Update: From the news, we learned that the shipworkers had not been paid for several weeks - very peaceful protest, considering no paycheck!

The real problem came later when we tried to get an UBER to the airport to pick up our rental car.  The police had shut down all the roads into old town because of the protests and we could not get an UBER for over 30 minutes.