Sol Koralj Hotel 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
... filled with spooky witches and Jack-o’-Laterns, horses and the various art we had created over the past few weeks. Our tiny apartment was beginning to look like a bit of home. By the time we were done organizing, it was time to make our spooky feast. We found some orchiette pasta while we were in Trieste, so this became the base of our scary dish. We added some sheep mushroom pieces and sautéed leeks, and called our dish ears, fleas ...
A City of Light
... in the mornings. We walked the promenade to town where we took a small wooden boat piloted by a barkarioli (boatman) who mans the oars and whose ancestors have been doing it for 850 years. The cost, 5 kunas, or a about a dollar was worth the price for this short lovely trip from port to port. For a wonderful story I recommend Vesna Maric's account and conversation in the Lonely Planet with one of ...
Moving in to Rovinj
... was very very old. We rang the bell and the owner Zelka came down to meet us. As she walked us up the three flights of stairs, I noticed that the stairs wobbled as we walked up them. A small concern was starting to come over me about this apartment.
When we reached the apartment finally, we took a look around. It was the right size at least, but the bathroom and kitchen were on the dated side. After staying in so ...
Hotel Valamar
... of day trips to the neighboring islands, to the nearby fjord, and a giant ship made the journey to Venice in warmer seasons. It was sadly now docked for the winter, waiting quietly for the seasons to pass.
The town of Porec is windy and cobbled, with shops and residences lining the streets. Porec has been inhabited since ancient times, once becoming a Roman town, then inhabited by Christians, the Byzantines ...



