I really love the sea, the Black sea, perhaps because I live very far from it. I prefer it for my summer holiday. In the same time, I am quite interested in visiting other places, even for a while – to examine them, to feel the atmosphere there, and to compare.

Some time ago we had the opportunity to go to the coast of Croatia. We visited the cities Pula and Rijeka and stayed for an evening in Opatija – a pompous little coastal town on the Adriatic sea.

Let me take you there for a while. You may also like it.

Pula is a coastal city in Croatia remmarkable for its solid ancient Roman buildings that make it worth to visit. I admit I had not heard of the town until recently, but it happened to be one of our great findings when we were traveling from Bela Krajina, Slovenia, to Venice. We wanted to enrich our adventure a bit with some more places to see on the road, and Pula emerged as a promising ancient site with remains of Roman times. We were totally impressed by the information we found, and we decided to get there. We identified several places to visit and so we moved from plan to action.

Pula: the Arena