Portorose
Portorose
Thursday 24th - Sunday 27th April 2008
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| 10:33:54 Blocked on the motorway for some accident... | 10:34:26 Chiara in the car... | 16:23:17 Marvellous view from our room. |
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| 16:35:18 Sails and sea... lovely... | 17:48:32 Chaira on the way back to the hotel after some thermal baths! | 18:28:12 Ye olde fisherman! |
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| 18:32:45 Chiara up close!! | 18:49:51 Me, Gianfranco and Silvio. On the back a place called "DROGA" which means "drugs" in Italian. | 19:00:01 Some fake old looking boats... |
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| 19:00:58 Silvio, Chiara and Gianfranco studying the guide. | 19:55:02 At the restaurant "Stavro Sidro" (the old anchor), Gianranco with some soup, Chiara with some assorted clams and mussels. | 19:55:38 The full table!! |
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| 11:48:41 Some horses at the Croatian border. | 12:44:40 HOW STUPID IS THAT!!? | 12:50:06 Nice little village called Rovigno, took a lot from Venice. |
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| 13:05:31 Ahhh flowers and colorful windows! | 13:07:49 The group all together, Gianfranco, Federico, Fabio (kneeling), Ilaria, Silvio, Jessica and Chiara. | 13:11:59 Main (and only) church in Rovigno. |
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| 13:15:51 Cool stuff, boats really sail next to the houses! | 13:20:47 Ahhh lovely colour contrast (or at least I thought so). | 13:36:23 Dom Perignon on the rocks! |
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| 13:36:35 Silvio, Fabio and Ilaria chatting... | 13:39:08 Some nice door. | 13:41:30 Chiara peering inside a house. |
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| 13:44:52 There was some commotion to change some money into Croatian Krones... | 13:46:11 More stone arches. | 14:07:26 Lovely collection of Honyed foodstuff! |
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| 14:11:09 I love this picture!! :D | 14:19:06 The "guy" wanted to be features in more shots. | 14:19:44 And again! |
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| 14:21:46 Actually he was only hungry, a huge fight ensued! | 14:22:52 Chiara is scared of the fighting seagulls! | 15:36:44 The Church in Porec. |
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| 15:50:37 Porec is important for the abbey, very very old! | 15:51:29 Inside the atrium | 15:51:57 The church. |
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| 15:53:10 This is where people were baptized. | 15:53:45 More Abbey shots. | 22:17:14 Me and Chiara at the cake place. |
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| 22:23:40 An orchid. | 22:26:38 Do I have to comment? | 22:26:47 Do I have to comment? |
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| 22:28:11 This was mine!! | 22:28:17 Do I have to comment? | 22:28:27 Do I have to comment? |
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| 22:28:40 Do I have to comment? | 09:43:47 Ahhhhh nice one! | 10:48:07 Grand Hotel Bernardine, our place in Portorose. |
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| 10:49:02 Some flowers. | 11:45:14 Going to Hrastovlje... | 11:51:37 The Hrastovlje church is surrounded by walls. |
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| 11:54:31 Looks like a fortress! | 11:55:04 There was no other tourist there... Marvellous! | 11:56:41 Silvio and Gianfranco spotted these wild orchids! |
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| 11:57:40 The belltower looking scary. | 11:58:38 Chiara in the woods around the church. | 11:59:06 This shot looks like a fortress. |
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| 12:00:48 Gianfranco, Silvio and Chiara. | 12:05:31 More orchids action, this one is different. | 12:07:14 Me! |
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| 12:08:41 Yet another orchid, Gianfranco and Silvio knew all the names (of course).... | 12:13:19 Belltower and inner walls. | 12:18:54 This is the main attraction of the church, the "Macabre Dance", where 14 skeletons take 14 different people to the grave. |
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| 12:19:57 More church interiors. The altar is from the IVth Century!! | 12:29:16 This is the end of the "Macabre Dance", the last 2 people are the King and the Pope. | 12:31:32 Lovely little church here! |
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| 12:34:06 Look at the columns they are all uneven... | 12:35:44 Facade of the church of Hrastovlje | 12:37:07 More castle look and vegetation. |
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| 12:39:01 And yet again another form of orchid. | 12:39:34 Walls and vegetation. | 12:39:49 Gianfranco, Silvio and Chiara scouting for more flowers! |
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| 13:06:49 The restaurant in Hrastovlje was simply great. Cheap, abundant top quality food. The bread here was freshly baked for us! | 14:51:49 Hrastovlje from the hilltop! | 14:53:09 Chiara on the hilltop! |
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| 15:47:32 Here we are in Pirano, next to Portorose. | 15:47:51 A famous Slovenian composer. | 15:48:26 Green house (gas)... |
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| 15:48:49 This house is very Venetian looking! | 15:49:52 Look at these windows, they are great! | 15:50:17 Playing chess in a sunny day! |
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| 15:54:10 Another very Venetian looking house! | 16:11:23 Old fisherman getting ready for a trip! | 16:26:29 Chiara displays a very ugly looking vase that she just bought! |
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| 16:26:50 Silvio had to barter a coffee for the chance of evacuating his bowels! That's the bar owner there opening the door of the bathroom... | 19:55:58 This is a bit naff... this ruins are clearly fake and were built next to the hotel casino... | 19:57:29 Sunset here... |
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| 00:00:32 Fabio, Federico and Silvio playing roulette. Fede and Silvio lost some money that night... | 00:11:12 On the contrary me, Chiara and Gianfranco won some money, mostly thanks to Chiara who got a single number right (36 times the bet)... Number TWENTYSIX!!! :D |
