Sol Stella Maris Resort Umag

... night and seem to be getting some of my strength back its taken it out of me and luckily have had Ian around to help me. Everytime I got up I just felt dizzy but thats common I think with concussion. Ian had to feed me soup the other day as my hands would not stop shaking but as I said I am feeling a lot better now and even agreed to move on to Opatija which is about 2 hours down the coast and a little ...

... 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 ...

... tram in the city will take you uphill to the Trieste plateau ("Altipiano triestino"). Be sure not to miss a walk through the Napoleonica, a panoramic pedestrian route loved by locals of all ages; the Grotta Gigante (Giant Cave), the world's largest tourist cave in the world, and, last but not least, an easy lunch in an osmiza, each one open only several days per year. Be sure to keep your eyes wide open and look for a branch of ivy and a wooden ...

... Shark and sardines and what have you, the best is the broth.

Bus in the earlz morning is the morning commuter and school bus, with the usual chatting regul.ar commuters in their regular seats and the standing wearenotgoingtoopenoureyes teenagers, looked like home to us. Took us to Rijeka, the big city, where we were to catch our bus to Split, but with 90 mins to spare we went walking for coffee and found.......

THE LIBRARY ...

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.

... to Barcola and there were market stalls and music etc, like what was on almost every night in Tortoreto. AND....even though I was not hungry after the big lunch.....WE ATE AGAIN!!!! They took me to the "Best Kebab Place in Trieste" so I really could not resist, especially since I just had to have a Kebabuley for you Sam! Haha. Only it was a Kebab - Panini style. But still utterly delicious, and I'm pretty sure I put on 5kgs just in that one day!!
Trieste, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy ilovetheworld

We spend a day on a real beach with hot soft sand in Bibione. We play some beach ball, read, bake ourselves on the sun... Literally Alena completely burnt her rear part and Romain his chest and shoulders. After such a long time in Iralnd its very easy...
In the evening we continue to Venice. Finally we still do not get there and stay for the night in a little town Campalto just a few kilometres from Venice.

Sorry, too dark for any good pictures, but here are a few attempts. This place is HUGE, with awesome, massive caverns that blow your mind, very impressive and interesting. The remains of the original internal stairs are visible in many spots, built by the original explorers ...

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 ...