Hotel Diamant Porec

... insurance people. I got a letter off them and have to have my stiches out in 7 days time and got a prescription for some pain killers. So all we have been doing really is hiding out in our little apparment the woman who we are staying with is amazing and refused to charge Ian for the extra days that we have been staying and Ian has been great in looking after me. Making me soup and sausage and mash and ...

... to sit down as the pain was really getting to me. I knew then that I was going to faint I could tell after fainting a few times before everything goes weird and things start going fast I kinda thought I could stop myself but no joy. The next thing I knew Ian was trying to bring me round after putting me in the recovery position and had some tissue on my head as I had fell head first into 500 year old ...

... underneath the Very Big Church. There are 20 churches here, but onlz one is the Very Big One. So turned around and found the official sentier higher up under the citz walls.

From Piran we took the bus to Porteroce. Turns out this is also the school bus, so Bill and backpack sit up front near the driver and finds out where to get off, and Ićm in back in a large open cattle area with noncommunicative teenagers, but a couple of them ...

... alittle burnt after our swim on the red island but o well much welcomed after all this rain. We also stopped off at this cave in the middle of no where within the rocks of one of the other smaller islands..annnd there was all you could drink herbal brandy and wine...and of course iced tea and juices...all in all awesommmme boat tour..highly suggest for the best taste of what ...

rainy weather...im sure it would be muchhh nicer here if it was actually sunny... o well...theres this pretty big amphitheater here..not shabby..also the james joyce museum,..guess he spent alot of time here..a big arch..istria is the area known for their truffles as well...i tried some truffle cheese mmmmm delish ...

... Koper, which I don't read until evening, but sounds to be well worth spending time in. Ah well.... Cheapest motorway by far (if we have the conversion rate right!) Pull up in Stoja camping, on headland. Bit rough & ready looking - but the kind of place that appeals to me. Town didn't look quite so cute, but decide we will explore.


Day 7 Turns out to be a far better place than it initially looked: fine remains of ...

Feštinsko kraljevstvo is one of the numerous caves in Istria which counts around one thousand of them. The cave is located near Žminj in the village of Feština.

The name “kraljevstvo” (kingdom) was given by children. Children’s imagination, the richness of stalagmite and stalactite shapes which look like curtains, the particularity of their colours from milky white to red and brown, truly ...

... in the form of fresh pain au chocolat, doughnuts, big bottle of Nutella, water melon, all bought just before Alena wakes up, cute! After we start our quest for the gas. Our bottles are still empty so it means no fridge, no cooker, no warm or cold meals, it really sucks. We have already tried to fill in the bottles in Italy, quite a few places in Slovenia, no luck so far, we have ...

... town past the harbor where tourist boats waited for customers and fisherman repaired their nets in what little shade they could find. Mauro guided us to the far end of town where the new hotel was being built. Directly across from a National park where locals were biking, swimming and enjoying the beautiful woods. We then dropped Father and Tyler back to the tender to head back to the ship.

Tim, the ...

... Which is not a bad thing, they all look nice, but I fear I was becoming immuned to all the uniformity of the small towns. At the end of the day I get back to Pula (which is still the base) and head into a restaurant/cafe/bar/club to watch the game. Liverpool vs AC Milan. A rematch of the epic game from 2005. Well the atmosphere wasn't quite like that night I had on Santorini and AC Milan exacted revenge and got the win in a ...