Friday, June 22, 2007
Sunday 20th May
We packed up and moved away to Istria, staying near Rovinj a lovely town built on a small peninsula. On the Tuesday we took a boat excursion to the Lim Fjord, it was quite handy that the boat picked us up straight from the campsite. Before we sat down we were plied with drink, possibly to make up for the lack of events on the trip itself. It was a pleasant ride on a boat to see some water, trees and a few birds: Heron, Egrets and Sea gulls. The height of excitement for the boys, apart from drinking fizzy water, was visiting a pirate’s cave. We had to pay 5kn each for the privilege although we did get a free postcard. We had a look around a small cave and then back onto the boat and back to the campsite. It would have been a pleasant and relaxing trip, if it could be done without young children but lacked any actual excitement, unless you count seeing the naturist sunbathers!
Wednesday 23rd May
We hook up with an Austrian family with 2 boys, 6 and 3. The eldest boy Sandro speaks a little bit of English and understands it quite well so they are able to communicate in some way. They spent a lot of the day in the sea and were quite firm buddies by bedtime.
The following day we went to Rovinj, a lovely town with a good feel to it. There is a great fruit market, next to a play park, where we bought our weekly fruit rations. We climbed up to the church at the highest point of the town, the church give Rovinj its picturesque quality from across the water. We returned home for a splash in the sea and enjoyed tea with our new Austrian friends.
Wednesday and Thursday night we were kept awake by a very loud disco about 50m from our caravan, this went on until midnight and the campsite along was noisy until the wee small hours. Due to this we decided to leave the campsite the next day. We were not alone and there was a mass exodus, well 5 families anyway, leaving the campsite due to the noise. Our Austrian friends decided to move as well and as we were only going 1 hour up the road came with us much to the boys delight.
