Hotel Histrion Portoroz

... in July.<br><br>Plus a whole range of children&#8217;s entertainment: from St Nicholas&#8217; blow-up village with games and sweet surprises to the seashore ice-skating rink where you can skate under the stars until the old year ends, not forgetting Father Christmas&#8217; traditional visit to distribute gifts. <br><br>Music lovers are spoilt for choice: on 19 December at 4.30pm in the Basilica of St Eufemia a concert by the ...

So we decided to splurge with the hotel in Verona and Trieste a bit and boy is it nice......its like a vacation on our extended vacation......we got to this hotel here in Trieste, beautiful and right on the water. Jason sweet talked the receptionist (though he thought she said small king instead of smoking - his Italian is improving ...

... to getting us to Slovenia where on Friday I can then go and get the stiches out. So we have a bus ride in the morning bought the lady from the appartments some chocolates and left her a note to say thanks as she has been amazing with us letting us stay for nothing. So everyone dont worry I am well enough to be typing this blog today and will put on pics for the past few weeks when the computer will let me.

Today was hell, I am writing this a few days later so just to let you all know I am much better now and will post the pics so you can see the damage when I get to a computer that lets me. I will explain what happened.<br><br>We got up and had decided that we where going to leave tomorrow as planned and move on to somewhere else so as the day was a little cloudy and raining Ian said why dont we go to Pula ...

As we said its getting colder now so we decided not to do much today as we both wanted to relax anyway after the hectic few weeks that we have had in Turkey greece and italy. So we just went for a walk in the harbour and had a look around its another pretty little harbour town with some cafes but its still really different from Italy. We found a supermarket and as we wanted ...

... the beach further down the coast. Once we got the tender secured, the girls found a spot nearby to camp out at. I took off my clothes off and left then in the tender and began to walk further down the coast where more people were scattered around the coast. I left Jeff and Vance behind for them to deal with their own doubt and fears before they relaxed enough to get naked too. It didn't take long for Jeff ...

Got up really early to take the girls to the airport so sad that Danielle is going but not got long on the trip to go now so waved her off and then we had to wait an hour to get a train to Florence then connect on a train to go to Trieste. As we said we are not going to Venice as we could not find anywhere to stay that was within budget that was not absolutly miles away from actual Venice so decided like Rome we can do that ...

... I will have that image transfixed in my mind for some time to come &#8211; probably the one I will remember most from Piran &#8211; a little spooky, as I think back on it, but very cool and mystifying as I watched.<br><br>When I awoke in the morning, the rain had not yet ceased, but fortunately, after breakfast, I was able to catch a lull, long enough to wander around the town for about an hour. As I am want to do, I immediately headed straight for the ...

... artist on the frescoes in Hum, we should also mention the famous Aleja glagolja&#353;a (Glagolithic Avenue), a series of 11 monuments dedicated to the Glagolitic script, put up between Roc und Hum.<br><br>When writing about Hum, we should definitely not forget the legendary Humska konoba (Hum tavern) and biska, a home-made brandy, made from grape-brandy, mistletoe and four arts of herbs, based on a two-thousand-year-old recipe.<br><br>The town of Hum, in traffic terms from the ...

We met Mauro Dujmovic for our private walking tour of Rovinj. We went past an amazing market with local produce, olive oil and souvenirs. We wound our way up through the old village to the top where the church was. The view of the sea was breathtaking. We then went for traditional Croatian coffee at a seaside cafe. Very strong. <br><br>The sunny day turned blazingly hot. We wandered through the more modern part ...