Advantages: Beautiful small Venetian-built fishing town, stunning scenery, delicious food, friendly and totally unspoilt. Also incredibly cheap (icecream 20p, luxury 3 course meal £10) and an hour from Venice by boat! Wonderful place. Disadvantages: Istrian peninsula very Italian influenced, sheltered from the war so perhaps not the "real Croatia." No theme parks, rowdiness, big clubs or burger bars so not a teenage holiday. No sandy beaches, all rocky- sand is further down the coast.
Rovinj is a small cobbled town built by the Venetians (the resemblence is striking)on a hill on the Adriatic coast. The war never reached here, and the people are relaxed and friendly. This is definitely part of Eastern Europe- the crafts are local and not as packaged as the West. You can buy home made cheese, wine and local honey in the market, and the food is simply wonderful- we can particularly recommend Monte, a romantic place tucked just down ... ...is generally made up of pleasant bars and cafes- Zanzibar had the best cocktails we've had in years. However there are no burger joints and teenagers might find this holiday dull. We also found the Brijuni Islands a disappointment, though our (long) trip to the Plitvice lakes was wonderful and the stunning journey all along the coast actually a bonus. The seas were beautiful and large flat rocks easy to swim from but the lack of sandy beaches mean ...
alee 08.11.2002
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