Mon.19.2020
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Imagery - Rovinj, Croatia 2007
When you have cataract surgery, you don't do both eyes at once. It takes a
month for the new lens to settle into the first eye, before you go ahead with
the second.
I was prepared; I used the month to go from Poland down to Croatia
for dental work.
Rovinj perches on the west coast of the Istrian peninsula. Some visitors
fly in to nearby Pula. I chose the bus that comes from Trieste, Italy.
A small, high promontory with harbors north and south. The Venetians
marked their territory with one of their trademark bell towers on the hill top,
and left a picturesque old town on the slopes below.
My dental adventures dragged out over a week and a half, giving me opportunity
for out-of-town excursions, including a boat trip to the Lim Fjord, as the
tour operators like to call it. Geologists will explain that it isn't really a
fjord. I won't nit-pick over words. It filled an afternoon nicely.
Multiple operators offer day excursions. I chose the one with the
coolest-looking boat, and a map of our route.
See the far background of the picture map? The Kvarner Gulf, where I would
discover the Opatija "Riviera" a year later.
Fellow tourists, an amiable couple from Bavaria, front the old town
skyline.
A twenty-minute stop to visit a hole-in-the-cliff cave.
Not a chain of caverns or anything. Those are a couple of hours away in
the Slovenian Karst region.
Goats live along the limestone cliffs of the fjord. Wild? Tame? I
don't know.
In mid-October, the evening light is falling on Rovinj old town
by the time we return to port.
New Town
The dental office, and the apartment I rented from them, are in the
modern part of town - inland, about a mile from the cute touristy areas.
Still a pleasant neighborhood;
I even found a small supermarket there.
Signspotting
I've always wanted to take a photo like this. Hooda thunk I'd get to do it
in Croatia?!
The long shiny new autobahn tunnel to Opatija and the rest of Croatia.