Day 1-2: Bled, Slovenia and Pula, CroatiaThis weekend's adventure was the Istria Peninsula in Croatia. This is a trip we tried to make back in June but it just didn't work out. So this weekend we boarded the dogs and took off to enjoy the beaches and seafood. The drive itself took about 6 hours after leaving Germany, through Austria, Slovenia and finally in to Croatia. On the drive down we stopped in Bled, Slovenia to grab a bit to eat. We went to the Restaurant Sova Bled. The food was excellent. They had a lot of different options and the atmosphere was perfect for a quite lunch by the lake. http://www.restavracija-sova.com/en/# After lunch, we got back on the road and went straight to our Airbnb just outside of Pula, Croatia. The place we rented was in a quite neighborhood a few hundred meters from the beach at Gortanova uvala. After we got the bags dropped off we put on our suits and went for a short swim. It's been awhile since I swam in the ocean, so it was absolutely incredible. Day 2. We got a pretty late start the second day because of the rain storms. It didn't clear until close to noon. But when it did, we headed into the city to try and make the best of the half day. We stopped first at the Pula Arena. It was 20 Kuna a person but definitely worth it to walk around the 6th largest Roman amphitheater left in the world. It was built between 27 BC - 68 AD. After the amphitheater, we went into the old town to grab some food. We ended up at Q Time Cafe, located right next to the Arch of Sergii, constructed in 28 BC. After that quick bite, we continued around the city and saw the Temple of Augustus and Rimsko kazalište, another amphitheater before heading home to try the beach again. Unfortunately our luck with weather ran out again and we ended up just having a beer at the beach bar while waiting for the storm to pass. When it did finally clear we ended up just going back in the city for dinner. We went to a restaurant called Kantina. The food was great! But it was pretty small so we were lucky that it wasn't very busy.
kantinapula.com That closed out our first full day in Croatia. We had our fingers crossed that the next day the weather would be better.
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