Hotel Tamaris Porec

Decided to clump together the last few days as not really got much to tell woke up in hospital after a terrible nights sleep and the doctor came around and said that I could go home but had to wait until I had been in there for 24 hours so Ian came and got me and we got a taxi back to the room which cost 74 pounds the ripping off monster. But hoping can keep the reciepts and claim it back when we speak to ...

... me and what where the acoustics like. He told me to come up and see him so I was on my way up when I thought it would be funny to pretend I was a gladiator on a horse and started trotting into the arena next minute my leg went something pulled in my calf I know now that it was only a pulled muscle but I was in agony and Ian was laughing thinking my horse had gone lame.

I tried to hobble over to some ...

Being born in Israel, and having travelled so much as a child, it is not easy to define a place my home. Trieste is the italian city in which I grew up, which helped me grow up. My home!
- By the way, I'm living in Switzerland now ;) -








To p Things to See in Trieste

Trieste proves to be a rare gem before even entering it, thanks to the breathtaking view of the "Costiera", the seacoast which guides you ...

... and patient and helpful. No one is in a huige impatient rush.

The Istrian drive took us to Grosyhan and Motovun and Hum and happilz for Bill along many very windy mountain roads where I shut my eyes a lot. More town walking and incredible food at Motovun. Hum bills itself as the smallest town in the world, but Bill wonders if it has ever met Arco, Idaho. We have now had white mistoletoe grappa from oak and from applewood, apple is ...

SUCH a quaint nice town. Theres a nice cathedral and these beauitful rocks that go right along the beach where you can lay out on..and today we took an all day boat trip around all of the surrounding islands of the coast. We worked out a ''special'' drop off inbetween the two trips on the most beautiful island called the Red Island. the sun is finally shining and shining strong ...

... cave to be open for public, a large project was initiated. With certain amount of financial aid for the realization of the project and with significant own investment, the cave was cleaned up, and its trails and lighting were tended to. It is worth visiting.

The temperature in the cave is between 13 and 14 degrees throughout the whole year and you might even catch a glance of a bat or a small “albino” crab.

... we stayed there for the evening talking to Patricia and her partner, and them feeding us speck, cheese, bread, etc.

Saturday...my (sort of cousin..) Alex came around and whisked me away on his motorbike for a tour of Trieste (and surrounding towns, including a quick trip into Slovenia) It was a beautiful sunny day and it was amazing to ride on the bike with the wind cooling my skin from the sun beating down on it. So mostly from this day came ...

We get to Izola late evening on the 9th August. It is a nice place situated on the Slovenian coast but there is a horrible Slovenian singer in the local bar whose voice spreads as far as 4km around. We take some crazy pictures of us two, have some drink in the local bar but... as the singer is really unbearable we decide for early night.

In the morning Romain has a nice ...

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.

The sunny day turned blazingly hot. We wandered through the more modern part ...

... around in near privacy. After visiting Porec in the first half of the day it was time to visit Rovinj which is equally as touristy and equally as nice. Just like in Porec the main draw to Rovinj is (gasp!) another church. This one wasn't as nice the one in Porec but the walk through the town was the nicest part. However at this point of the trip I was beginning to notice that all the Croatian towns were starting to look the ...