Baladur-Pavan Rovinj
Via Garzotta Rovinj, Istria, Croatia
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Kahlan's Cool Birthday
... to hook and unhook their carabiners.
While the kids were going through the kid course, the owner of the park, Nevenko, came back from the surrounding woods with a handful of wild mushrooms. He smiles at us and says he found lunch. He then continues to chat with us and was truly delighted we came to the park to celebrate Kahlan's birthday. Since it was morning and so cold, we were ...
Ears, fleas and horses
... and it was close to the small double sided blade we used at home, SCORE! Even though Kahlan drew the tiniest tooth and Abi changed her design midway, we decided we liked the double faces better than even the single ones, and vowed this is the way we will always carve pumpkins from now on.
Once the work of carving and cleaning up was complete, we began hanging up the pictures we had created for Halloween. Soon, the doors and ...
A City of Light
... to summer tourists and in earlier times the aristocracy.
But we didn't have time to lollygag because we were scheduled to pick up our boat the next day in Kremik. Staying our last night in Primosten - another wonderful seaside town - where we stayed at the lovely Kamenar B & B and restaurant without ...
Moving in to Rovinj
... After the soup, the rest of the food for the meal went downhill. Stacy and Abi ordered risotto for lunch and when they brought it out, the rice was not cooked so it was crunchy. After sending it back to get cooked some more, it was returned smelling very "fishy". Apparently, the chef used fish stock to cook the rice the rest of the way. Not very appealing to the vegans in the house. So we settled on ordering another bowl ...
Hotel Valamar
... fall of the Roman empire at the end of the 6th century, and finally by Venice from the middle of the 13th century all the way until the Hasburgs took over in the 19th century.
This is a pretty typical story for the towns in Istria. After the tug of war between Italy and the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Porec was finally part of Croatia after WWII. Tito was sure to make unification his priority, so he ousted the ...


