Friday April 2, 2010
The Hotel Istra is a newly remodeled hotel that is stark but luxurious. I started my day with a walk around the grounds of the island which included beautiful wildflowers, quiet areas and labyrinths. The hotel also offers exercise classes when they are fully booked, for right know they have a very nice streching class led by and instructor names Alexandra.

We boarded the boat and started our exporation of the town. At one time in the 1500's a canal divided the old town with the main land. The harbour is all lined with granite sea walls and boats tied up to the wall mediterranean style (stern in). Teresa and I began our exporation through the narrow windy streets to climb to the top of the hill to the church of St. Euphemia. The tomb of St. Euphemia the patron saint of Rovinj is located on the right side of the altar. The bell tower is topped by a copper statue of St. Euphemia which shows the wind direction by turning on a spindle.

Teresa and I thought it would be a good idea to get something for sandwiches and once inside the market things became complicated. Who would think we had to weigh oranges, tomatoes and banans. There is a scale but no pictures only numbers that are below the items on the shelves, that took some time but soon I figured it out. Talk about feeling silly. Teresa and I also manged to get on the correct boat but never even asked the captain where the boat's destination was we still could have been cruising around the islands's.,

We chose not to have sandwiches for supper and took the boat to a great restraunt right on the warf the food was the best. Fresh trout, pasta, and of course Bob had the beef steak.