Grand Hotel Portoroz

... tourists can see as they stroll around town alone or in the company of a guide who will talk about the story of these charming exhibits, with the musical accompaniment of bagpipes from Val Pesarina. Guided tours (departure by ferry from Grado) have also been organised of the lagoon nativity scenes on the Island of Barbana, the site of a Marian shrine much loved by the people of Grado, who go on pilgrimage to the shrine every ...

... exploration today. Figured that since most of Italy is churches, we should go see the synagogue here as its one of the biggest in Europe. Not that either of us are religous, but sometimes we just get the urge to pray (NOT!, this is not some bible belt after school special). Jason is ready now, so we're off for the day, ttyl......<br>

... night and seem to be getting some of my strength back its taken it out of me and luckily have had Ian around to help me. Everytime I got up I just felt dizzy but thats common I think with concussion. Ian had to feed me soup the other day as my hands would not stop shaking but as I said I am feeling a lot better now and even agreed to move on to Opatija which is about 2 hours down the coast and a little ...

... in my eye as its bust open and I have cuts and grazes on my face from the rocks and also the biggest black eye you have ever seen its madness. As a precortion they decided to keep me in hospital overnight as I had a head injury and they wanted to make sure that I was ok. So I spent the night in a mad croatian hospital on my own but was brave and kept having nurses putting injections in my **** all evening.

... save some money I bought some food to eat in the room. We did not really do much today went back to the room after we had found a laundry for our clothes and then I cooked both me and Beebs a lovely chicken sunday dinner with potaoes and carrots and even found some stuff so that I could make Gravy sorry not much to say but we where so tired and just wanted to chill out.<br>

... for a few hours before heading to shore. We didn't' want to go alone so we asked any of the crew if they wanted to go with us. We ended up getting three of the stewies and one of the deckies to go with us. With only four people aboard the work load was very light, so they were able to go with us. We took the tender to shore and no one was on the beach where we landed, but there were more people scattered ...

... to but Ian thinks not. <br><br>We got to our place where we are staying Rovinj about 7 in the evening and found our hotel its a little appartment with kitchen as we need to get back on budget and not spend so much money we popped out to have a look around and ended up having 3 large steiner pints of beer it was fun and then just went to bed we are both exhausted after being up since 4am and travelling through 3 countries.<br>

I was awakened during the night, not to the chimes of the bells, but rather by the boom of an intense thunderstorm and the banging of my shutters as the wind whipped into my room. As I went to fasten them shut, it was a pretty awesome sight (whether it was a dream or actually occurred, I will never know), as I saw a bolt of lightning crash down from the sky immediately to the right of the bell tower looking over the square. Whether it was a dream or ...

... mentioned 11th century up to the present moment, there has literally been built nothing more than one building, and that was the Italian school, dating from1892.<br><br>The smallest town in the world, beside that it presents a monument of its time, is important and interesting for other things also, namely traces of past. One of them are definitely the frescoes in Hum, a unique work of art that originates from the 12th century. Beside these skillfully painted Biblical motives of an ...

... in America was in Orlando. We spent the rest of our time trying to convince him that Orlando is not indicative of the US. <br><br>Back on the ship, Tyler was taking advantage of the sports deck that is dropped down anytime the ship is anchored. One can waterski, sail, kayak or just swim. <br><br>We said our goodbyes and went back to the ship. Cocktails at 7, followed by dinner and dancing. Another great day!<br>