Hotel Piran

Over 150 traditional or nautical-themed nativity scenes displayed in the streets, squares and churches of Grado and Barbana Island. Christmas markets spread festive season colours, perfumes and lights across Grado. Children&#8217;s parties with St Nicholas and Father Christmas. Live music, plus fireworks over the sea. Grado prepares celebrations for children and grown-ups in its atmospheric lagoon setting.<br><br>Christmas in ...

... the day leaps and bounds) into upgrading our room to a junior suite, and OMG!!!!! ITS FAB! We have this massive room bigger than half our flat in London with a balcony view overlooking the ocean. Life doesn't get much better than this. Had a really nice fish dinner last night and are about to embark on a bit of culture during our ...

... 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 ...

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 ...

... 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 make en route.<br><br>It took about an hour and a half to reach Ljubljana, Slovenia&#8217;s capital. From the highway, there were not clear signs pointing towards the center of the city, so, once again, it was kind of a **** shoot. After about thirty minutes of lucky guessing and a little backtracking, I finally spotted the castle and the pedestrian-only center of town. I lucked into a place to put my car (I hesitate to call it a parking spot ...

... in the other windows, another window was just shutters and flung them open. It was the best room. From there we found one of those islands of contentment that is the incredible restaurant, but not without gedtting lost first. We asked directions of a stalwart gentleman who appeared to be arguing with someone in a 2nd floor window, and he told us to go 200 meters ands (makes walking fingers) go stamps. <br><br>So we found the stamps and went ...

... out of here, the last thing he could do. "That is it, we are bloody going for a walk around the bloody old town whether you like it or bloody not." While meandering through the old town, we stumbled upon a little canteen. We felt it was about time to have a cold beer. We spent the next couple of hours sipping chilled beers under a grape vine covered pergola. When you find a place like this, it was even hard for Dino not to ...

... did we get to see all of Piran from above, but we were also surprised to find a very high-quality soccer field behind the wall which we visited.  After all of this walking, we went down to the waterfront for a calamari and gnocchi lunch before heading home.  Very subtly, I think the influence of living in Italy is getting to me, which isn't a bad thing.  This past week, I bought my first pair of European-style shoes, and since they're much smaller than my previous sneakers, my jeans ...

Today I hit the 25% complete mark of my trip. A bit of a milestone. I definitely do not want to go home yet. Still a few more adventures to enjoy. It was pouring rain when I woke up today. I checked out of my room and waited for the rain to stop. Once it let up, I went on a short tour of Piran. I went up some ruins where I was able to get a nice view of the coast. I then decided to walk 40 minutes to a nearby town called Portoroz just to see how it compared to ...