2025-05-11 Novigrad, Rovinj, Poreč
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We’re spending a few days in Croatia. We took the plane to Zagreb, got
a rental car and drove west to Istria. Our first station is Novigrad.
The reputation for fabulous sunsets is well deserved.

a propeller on an airplane

First stop on the autobahn. Pistachio baklava and Apfelstrudel, coffe
and sparkling water.

Strudel, baklava, coffee and sparkling water

Many hours later we finally arrived. Claudia does all the driving. I’m
happy to see she’s still smiling.

Alex Claudia

In May, everything is still offseason. The sunset is wonderful.

Sunset

The next day, we take a walk around town. There are pools cut into the
stoneworks. But in May, I don’t feel like taking a bath. We saw a
handful of people swimming, however.

A flagstone waterfront with two small round pools cut out

We looked at the Lođa Belveder.

Alex sitting on a bench in a viewpoint

And then we found one of these colourful umbrella passages popular all
over the world. I mean, it’s nice to have colourful shade. I’m not
sure we need to use functional umbrellas for it.

A street with ropes up above, with caught up umbrellas casting a
colourful shade

In the early afternoon we drove to Rovinj and jogged around. The
houses of the old town are built right to the water’s edge.

An old town with a tower

Because the picture above was taken against the sun, we decided to
cross the isthmus and take a picture with the sun in our back. It
wasn’t much better, though.

The same old town from another angle

We decided to get up onto the hill.

Alex on some easy stairs, in shorts and with a red t-shirt

On the way back we noticed little alleys going straight up or straight
down towards the water.

Alex on some very steep stairs

Nice old cobblestone roads.

Narrow alleys with cobblestone roads

On the way out, we found a tree with pink flowers. 😍

Gewöhnlicher Judasbaum
Cercis siliquastrum

Pink flowers on a tree

We decided to drive back via Poreč. Again, we jogged through town. We
saw two towers with rooftops. This one seemed to be open.

Alex on a square with a three story round tower visible in the back

And it was open! We had something to drink.

Alex making a selfie

On the way back we decided to look at the outside of the city wall.
And it was full of flowers.

Old walls, old houses, pink flowers, nesting oidgeons

So beautiful! 😍

Pink flowers growing out of the wall

So very beautiful! 😍

More pink flowers growing out of the wall

You know I can’t help myself.

Blue flowers

We returned to Novigrad and had dinner by the sea.

Claudia sitting at a table

The sunset was, once again, beautiful.

Yellow flowers

That park at the corner has a bunch of trees with hundreds of
starlings coming home to sleep. They talk to each other and it’s the
most fascinating murmuring.

Alex listening to the starlings

When you watched closely, the round shadows in the lower part of the
tree were pine cones but at the top the round shadows moved around.
These were innumerable birds trying to find a place to sleep next to
each other. 😍

Tree silhouette against the sunset

We sat under the trees but it was getting cold.

Tree silhouette and Alex sitting on the wall against the sunset

This walk was beautiful.

The marina area again with the pools, late in the evening

The sunset was, again, fantastic.

Sunset with sailing boat

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