Hotel Keltika Izola
Cesta V Jagodje 1 Izola, 6310, Slovenia
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Accommodating Trieste
After a much longer bus ride than advertised, we made it to the port. Only the port of Trieste is clearly not used to harboring cruise ships. They hot housed us in the convention center, at least there were bathrooms. By this point, it was past dinner time. We were hungry, and the girls were exhausted but couldn't sleep with all the commotion. We lucked out and connected with a former student of mine and his family. They helped ...
Ears, fleas and horses
... filled with spooky witches and Jack-o’-Laterns, horses and the various art we had created over the past few weeks. Our tiny apartment was beginning to look like a bit of home. By the time we were done organizing, it was time to make our spooky feast. We found some orchiette pasta while we were in Trieste, so this became the base of our scary dish. We added some sheep mushroom pieces and sautéed leeks, and called our dish ears, fleas ...
A City of Light
... Ah Vicenza) who designed the Church of St Stephen. Of Course, under renovation.
One last stop before we headed back to Primosten was in the town of Crikvenica. It was just lunch - wonderful fresh, crisp fried sardines and frites by the water. I did so love the boardwalk in this small town ...
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 ...



