We spent a couple of days in Venice and took off for Croatia yesterday.
Venice was very nice. Lots of walking and great hidden streets and corners. We have had a great time here in the past and will come back again. We went out to a restaurant we found in Mestre on our last visit. The food was really good just like last time, check out Osteria La Pergola, via fiume, 42, 30171 Venice, Italy ....you can take a train into Mestre and then walk to the restaurant. It is located in a very residential are. Im drooling thinking of the food.</p>
<p>We headed to a town called Porec, a little seaside tourist spot. Here we met Leanna a couch surfer who stayed with us last August. She gave us a tour of the old town and Basilica. Very interesting buildings and friendly people. They had a coffee shop and bar in an old watch tower from the original fortified walls. On the water front there were water taxis out to the various islands and lots of vendors selling thing from useless trinkets to glass bottom boat rides.  The islands sounded like they would be fun, one is a nudist beach. A friend said we could rent a 50' sail boat and travel through all the islands for 1000 euro a week. Seems pretty reasonable, sign me up. Who is going to navigate????
On the way north we rode through some small villages, in one called Motovun we found a medieval town. I posted some photos of us trying to ride through. This was the oldest town I have every rode through...usually we are instructed to walk. I don't think the locals appreciated us and I know the other tourists did not at all. We were just planning on doing a zig zag loop until we came across a parked car that a local left right before we were to exit. We ended up stuck on a down hill cobblestone road not much wider than the bikes. We had to push the bikes backwards uphill until we could turn around. Then we rode all the way back through town once again to exit where we came in. Now I'm positive nobody appreciated us, since they all had to walk and were jumping out of our way. The cobblestones were large and it made the bike weave alot, so I think they thought we were trying to hit them.
<p>We next headed up to Ljubljana to vist another couch surfer who stayed with us a little more than a year ago. At the border i got a little lecture for not having an international drivers license. He was upset because he was forced to get one on his last visit to the USA. I have had on in the past. It is only a piece of paper that has our drivers license explained in 10 different languages and none were in his language. We argued for a little bit and then we left we with our entry stamp.
Saso the couch surfer, gave us a tour of the small city center, absolutely beautiful. There was a nice river running through the middle and live music everywhere.....it was a Tuesday evening and people everywhere eating drinking and having fun...a place to come back to. Wish we had time to stay and explore longer...only 2 hours from Venice. Everyone forgot their cameras so we don't have a photo of the town square. You might want to look it up on the web it was very pretty.
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