Good Morning

Well actually not quite such a good morning, since I'm up so early.  Sophie however was up even earlier, which means I'm currently locked in the house because shes gone out, probably for a walk because she must get so bored being awake so much earlier than me.  Having said that I was out of bed at 6.30am this morning, she was just up at 5.30 this morning.  I went to try and txt her just to check up on her but then realised the cell phone I was holding was hers, so that wasn't going to work so well.

In the meantime I thought I'd give a quick update on Pula.  I kept meaning to, just lazying kept getting in the way.  Theres not much to talk about in terms of things we're doing.  We did walk into town the day before yesterday to see the Roman amphitheatre when the weather was a bit grey.  It was rather amazing, still largely in tact, and right near the water.  The town centre had the feeling of being very old, I have no idea what age it actually was, but there are still plenty of things built by the Romans hanging around adding age and a sense of granduer.

Other than that our time has been spent swimming, reading and eating.  Swimming is interesting, we found a better spot to go in the water yesterday, where the water is deeper.  Sophie hurried off to buy some goggles because the water is so clear and there are plenty of fish around.  She just got back, turns out that was what she was doing, though I don't know how she motivated herself to get in the water, its still pretty cold.  The water around here is still even different though.  It's saltier.  When you get out and sit on the rocks to try you can trace salt lines down you skin.  Our spot yesterday also included some large flat rocks that, once you found the right position, you could get comfortable on. 

Last night we went out for our last father funded meal.  Or supposedly our last, despite ordering mains, wine and dessert, we still didn't even make it over 30 euros, despite it being a white table cloth kind of restaurant.  The hostess was quite funny, spoke three languages, none of which were English.  We walked in and up to her and she said something in Croatian and we shook our heads and she said 'Italiano?'  Nope we said 'Engliski?' 'Deutch?'  Nope.  But we managed to get a table, though not by the window over looking the sea which we would have loved.  I ate a steak with a sauce so hot it almost made my eyes run.  The steak was very good though.  We also tried to order the Istrian donuts for dessert, but they didn't have them (or we assume thats what she meant), so instead got the chocolate pancakes and the lavender ice cream, both very good. 

So as you can see, lazying and eating really dominate our time here.  Tomorrow we leave, and leave early unfortunately.  We managed to find that there is a 8 am bus rather than having to catch a 7am bus, but it still means leaving here quite early.  We have to be in Rijeka to catch a midday train, as there is only two each day, the other not being till quite late.  So Ljubjana tomorrow.  We have major plans there, just strolling through the streets and maybe the hills around the city.   Back to hostels though, that'll be a shock after all these lovely days to ourselves.