Two nights in Piran

After leaving the very relaxing Bled we moved onto Piran. Piran can be best described as one of Slovenia's most beautiful coastal country villages. It is situated on the Adriatic Sea on such a small area of land just across from Croatia. It is unbelievably beautiful. You can walk from one end of the town to the other in about 1 hour tops. It is hilly and filled with lots of tiny streets. The place reminds you so much of walking down the streets of Venice, not only because there are very few, if any cars but because it was part of the Venetian Empire in the 13th Century.  All the houses have washing hung out the windows and planter boxes. The houses on the outskirts have vines of fruit growing up them such as kiwi fruit and grapes.

Accommodation is very scarce here so when we booked months ago all we could find was a hotel. We were lucky enough to be right on the water, unfortunately no sea views were allocated in the budget. We could walk to the water in about 20 steps after leaving the hotel lobby. It was great. We went swimming everyday, the water was a perfect temperature. The only weird thing is you lie on concrete instead of sand as you enter the water via the piers.

The highlight of Piran was on the last night. We had met this kind of crazy, pot smoking hippy in an shop equivalent to 'Tree of Life' who told us to jump on board this little boat which used to be a trawler. The first night we chickened out on eating there. When we got on board the owner of the boat spoke not much English. There are only two things on the menu, spaghetti with muscles and grilled fish. The owner came to to the table with about four types of fish that had been caught that day. We chose two to share between three of us. It is served up whole. It was so tasty. We all thought it was the best fish we had for a really long time. 

This morning we waited quite a while for a bus to take us to Ljubjana. We will be here for one night only before we say farewell to Di and Rick.