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Kahlan's Cool Birthday

A travel blog entry by theflipside

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... to hook and unhook their carabiners.





While the kids were going through the kid course, the owner of the park, Nevenko, came back from the surrounding woods with a handful of wild mushrooms. He smiles at us and says he found lunch. He then continues to chat with us and was truly delighted we came to the park to celebrate Kahlan's birthday. Since it was morning and so cold, we were ...

Ears, fleas and horses

A travel blog entry by theflipside

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... well as a lesson riding. With sketchy directions, we headed out 30 minutes early, only to arrive a dozen calls to Mirjram later and 30 minutes late. Ugh. I think it was a combination of communication challenge and accents that led me to a dirt road, I thought she was saying WHITE road, when she was saying RIGHT road. Ok, I need to brush up on my English.

We finally find the farm, trying not to be annoyed and frustrated after ...

A City of Light

A travel blog entry by kitchenshrink

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... barkariolos. It's touching part of Croatian history.

It was also in Zadar that we went to Rafaelo's and had our meat debach. We all said we'd go back in a minute.


On our way back to Primosten, Jan headed us to the lovely hill side town of Motovun - the Venitian influence and the vineyards were not wasted on us. Although we missed the film festival, I didn't miss my old ...

Moving in to Rovinj

A travel blog entry by theflipside

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... two bedroom apartment that was converted to a public aquarium. Kahlan really wanted to check it out so we decided to buy some tickets and head in. The aquarium showed a variety of local fish from the Adriatic. Overall, we were not that impressed with the quality of the tanks and the way they were maintained. However, in one tank we found one of the coolest fish any of us ever saw. It was called a Streaked Gurnard. It had ...

Hotel Valamar

A travel blog entry by theflipside

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... 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 ...