Hotel Sol Aurora Umag
Katoro bb Umag, Istria, 52470, Croatia
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Accommodating Trieste
... babies. It was 9:30pm before the ship was even unloaded. We had another adventure with the strollers, but eventually made it. Poor, poor babies! I have never been so glad to have an overnight bag and their beds with us. Luckily, two screaming babies got us through the check in lines on the ship very quickly. By 11:00pm, we had all crashed, clean and fed. Then it was time to write off the beginning as a bad dream and enjoy the actual ...
Ears, fleas and horses
... one pumpkin, the girls decided to each carve a face on both sides of the pumpkin. They drew the faces, cut the top off and extracted my favorite part of pumpkins, the seeds. Straight into the oven they went, sprinkled with sea salt from the neighboring island of Pag and some sugar, to munch on and keep up our strength for the hard work of carving. We all took turns carving the intricate faces they drew. We found a grapefruit knife in ...
A City of Light
... and the sunset.
What a view.
My recommendation?
Put this one on your list.
We stayed a couple of days and then it was on to Zadar - a city not even mentioned in some guide books. What a shame because the Roman ruins, ...
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
... This was a our first look at the Adriatic on this side of Croatia. Right across, on a clear day, you can see Italy. We are at the very tippy top of the sea, so the water temperature is not as warm as down in Split, but Istria enjoys a milder summer. We enjoyed walking on the wooded path, watching daredevils dive into the chilly sea. It was so nice to be out of a place where you were always conscious that someone may ...



