Yesterday was a bit bleak and dribbly. We had a rather slow morning catching up on a bit of washing and cleaning about the place. Then we took ourselves off to a lovely local fish restaurant called ‘Dama Bianca’. We sat on the water front and had a lovely long lunch.
Then we set off for the serious business of the day. First to a town called Hrastovlje to locate the church of the Holy Trinity where there are these amazing C15 frescoes. Problem was in this most complex of languages everything looks the same so we put a similar town into the (precious) GPS and off we went to the wrong town. Confusing both us and innumerable townspeople as we kept on insisting on directions to their most ordinary of churches. They were certainly bemused by our urgent enquiries in a mixture of English/Italian.
Anyway we eventually found it and it was indeed fantastic. Extraordinary frescoes including the dance of death….fabulous!! We just got in before closing and took our time. A group of barefooted Christian, Austrian kids arrived walking on their pilgrimage and looking incredibly Ernest and well…..Christian. They were looking for shelter for the night as it looked like rain. Just a barn…and the very kind Slovenians were trying to find somewhere for them.
Next we headed off to Slovenia’s main port town on the Istrian Coast, Koper. A lovely town with a superb square and beautiful buildings, all so different to Italy, so Austrian/German in style. It really was a lovely old centre to this bustling port town.
We then headed back stopping off in Trieste for a tapis-style snack and a glass of wine at a trendy bar called SaluMare. We got home exhausted…did our mosquitoes prevention strategies and hit the hay. Cooler nights are helping with the sleeping over the last few days.
More tomorrow about our activities today but for now it’s late and I need to get ready for bed….attack on the mozzies first though!! Chris is already in bed and I’m sitting on the terrace listening to the sea and trying to get at least one day written down.