First full day in Trieste – first swim in the Adriatic for 2 years.
Here we are in Trieste. Went to sleep to the sound of the ocean and woke up to the sound of the ocean.
We set off this morning anxious to find our internet cafe and make our contacts. There are stairs – totally formidable stairs at the side of this house that are massive. There are over 100 and up and up they go. Knowing how paranoid I am about holding people up and wanting to set off ahead I told Chris I was going up and I’d meet her at the car as she had to talk to the woman next door. So up I went and got to the top with wobbly legs only to find there was no way up to the car that way. Fuck I thought I’ve gone too far so I went back down a few flights but couldn’t find the way out. The phone rang, where was I said Chris. I told her…oh no sad she, that’s not the way out. So all the way down I had to come, cross over to the next door house where we stayed last time and all the way back up…well old jelly legs nearly died in the attempt. Except that I didn’t.
The long and the short of it is that we eventually hit the road to the little village down the road. We tried 4 bars with internet and only on the 4th did we find a functional internet. With that we sat for an hour, didn’t speak and caught up with emails etc.
After that we headed off to our very favourite restaurant from last time overlooking the water and selling delicious food mainly focussed on mussels. Again we had a gorgeous lunch of seafood, drank wine (you’d be proud of the white wine I’m happily consuming Ang….that is before you were ashamed of the amount of white wine I can consume).
We did a massive supermarket shop after lunch to set ourselves up for the next 10 days, came home and staggered down the path/ stairs with our bags of shopping.
Today was a cooler day but by this time it was heating up so it was into the bathers and finally into the water. That was really hairy for my this time because you get into the water through formidable rocks and I was very anxious about scraping or knocking ‘the’ leg as well as my legs not being as strong as they were 2 years ago particularly after the forced immobility before I left. Anyway I did it without mishap and had the most heavenly swim in the crystal clear water.
After the swim we both sat about soaking up the sun. I must say this place is heaven but even heaven has spoilers and it is a constant fight to ward off the ingenious squad of mosquitoes (Zanzari, Ang) that know every trick in the book despite my bringing the Aussie weapons to fight them. They seem to love me, although I must say I believe they loved me less when I was on antibiotics…not sure if thats a scientific fact or not…anyway they are thoroughly enjoying me again now. Guess I’m just lucky.
Now its dinner outside overlooking the sea and watching the sun set. Tomorrow we’ll be off to that internet cafe again and then may be we’ll do a bit more exploring. So its bye for now darlings and I’ll send this as soon as I can.