East-Eurotrip

Yesterday the three of us (I, Marco & Roberto) drove around inland Istria. We saw a few nice mall villages, and also an old church with 500 years old frescos in the village of Beram. One of the frescos is supposed to be well known - Dance Macabre. To enter this church, we had to go to the nearby village, and ask an old lady living there to come with us and open the church for us. She doesn't speak any english, but luckily she speaks italian, so Marco could explain it to her. Anyway, I guess this is what she does all day long. It was like a computer game - find old lady, get key, go to church...
After the church we continued through some other old villages, and got to Perac, the biggest resort city in Istria. It's less nice then Rovinj where we sleep, but has a lot more tourists there. We saw the famous Basilica of Euphrasius, which wasn't that impressive. Just a big old church.

Dance macabre:














Today me and Marco took a boat boat trip around the area of Rovinj. We went to a small island called St. Giovanni, with clear amazing water around it. Then we went to the Lim Fjord and had lunch, and then sailed on and returned in the afternoon to Rovinj. Was all in all nice. Tonight we're going to a barok concert in the city, and tomorrow morning I'm off to Zadar, which will be my next base for the national parks of Plitvice and Paklenica. Roberto and Marco are going back to Rome tomorrow. Some people have to work...


If you ever get to Rome, and want people to think you're local, just use any of the
following roman sleng phrases:
Vaffanculo - fuck off
E daie va - come on
Testa di cazzo - dickhead