Jolly Hotel Cavour Trieste

... 6 January, lively colourful street markets will fill the sea promenade and the squares in the old town with light, colour and perfumes.
From Saturday 19 December to 17 January see the Nativity Scene Exhibition. An expression of street-decoration creativity and religious sentiment: over 100 nativity scenes on show in the narrow streets and squares, in the harbour and lagoon. Traditional or nautical-themed nativity scenes ...

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 make en route.

It took about an hour and a half to reach Ljubljana, Slovenia’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 ...

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 ;) -








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

... invest in the <istrian economz there.

Dropped the car in Opatija, which sounds like a wonderful seaside resort in the books but looked big and noisz to us. Very glad our sobe (room to rent) was just outside in Volosko, there was a bus stop across the waz and stairs down to the water, you can walk 12 km to Lungomare, look at all the Adriatic version of Newport villas. And we had brodet! At night in a Volosko street, with a cat asking for ...

... again...way too much food and eating etc. Serious diet exercise plan coming up!! I really don't understand how the Italian people are so skinny! Alda tells me (and I can see in many people) that there is big problems with too many skinny girls. But I don't understand how?! This place is the home of pasta and ice cream...?!!!?! Anyway, after leaving Patti's house a few hours later, I went for a little drive with Robert and his family, and they took ...

Italian is not a common 2nd language in the countries we've visited, but Koper Slovenia had clearly been conquered by the Italians and left with evidence of their rule. The city was settled in Roman times, then influenced by the Byzantine Empire around 600-800 AD, and ruled by Venice from 1300-1800.

Street signs were in Italian and Slovenian, and the lion emblem of Venice was posted on several important buildings. The familiar locking window ...

... it out and said I'd wait, and they put me in the back with a glass of wine and when it was clear I wasn't going to leave hungry they gave me the table I'd seen vacant when I walked in. I ended up having the most wonderful meal served by a waiter who was clearly drunk and wanted to practice his English, but I didn't mind especially as some of the other diners also struck up conversation; all terribly friendly. I was also plied with wine and ...

... So we drove and drove with the call of endless sunshine in our ears and as soon as we got to the other side of the mountains our prayers were answered - the heat, the smells, where the **** did you put my sunglasses Ned??? Get some factor 40 on ya boyo cause your gonna burn! hurray! We drove to Madonna Del something or other and there before us was the perfect park up - a park with benches and the most amazing view, we were at the top of lago ...

... considering she only counts to seven in English and me, only a bit of Italian. The next day, Clio (the daughter of Marvia who has been awesome driving us around everywhere), took us to Castello di Miramare. It's a beautiful castle of Maximillian of Habsburg surrounded by amazing gardens on the sea. It's great, every window you look out in the castle you can see ocean. I wish it was my house. Although, maybe not, legend says that any couple that stay in the house ...