Istria in June...

... is to fall in love with! And I have!

I'm gonna be honest here...I've been sitting on this post for the better half of this month. Procrastinating and doing odd things here and there just to avoid writing it. For a week I made it my mission to leave a comment on every single blog in my news feed. Why? Because it's good PR, experts say, but basically because I just wanted to avoid writing this post...

You see I am a terrible travel writer. No strike that. I am no writer at all. What a conundrum! How am I going to express the beauty and uniqueness of the places I visited those four days in June? It is impossible. I am completely lost for words and nothing I write here can ever be enough.

One night, as I was having drinks with a writer friend of mine, I had a "brainstorm". Inventing some sort of device which could download my scattered thoughts, pictures, smells and feelings, then upload them directly into said friends brilliant brain, to be put in order and start making sense, then returned back to me. But alcohol induced brainstorms rarely yield results, (in my case at least) even though I am quite sure that someone at Apple is working on it as we speak (the "iputyourthoughtstowords" app ) I was yet to find a solution for my problem.

A partial breakthrough came today as I was browsing through the hundreds of photos I took. Poor Georgie stoically waited for me to capture the perfect shot of a lavender bush for more than 15 minutes - I took a couple of photos where he has actually fallen asleep waiting for me!!!

So the solution to my problem is this: I will not write anything about Istria and all the small towns we visited - Novigrad, Umag, Sveti Ivan, Savudrija, Piran, Porto Ros, Capo d'Istria, Motovun, Porec, Limski Kanal, Rovinj - I will just post the photos I took and hope that they at least will be able to reveal to you the reasons why I fell in love with this land...

 

 

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

  

 

 

 

 

  

  

 

  

  

 

 

 

 

PS 1: If anything, Istria is ruled by cats, asparagus and Campaniles. There was not one village inland or by the coast we visited that did not have all three in abundance!

PS 2: Lately I've been obsessed with wooden doors and window shutters...and eggs. I have a burning desire to paint eggs and doors! The later I found plenty in Istria...for the eggs I have to look elsewhere....