Rovinj (pronounced Ro-veen) doesn’t have a pier big enough for a cruise ship, so we anchored out in the bay, and used the lifeboats as tenders to take the passengers across to the small local quay. Peter and I got there around about 11.
It’s quite a large town - a very lovely, clean, friendly, holiday town to be honest. And central to it is the lovely little Old Town. Little is a key word here, the Old Town sits on a small mount rising out of the sea. Top and centre is the local church of St Euphemia and her remains reside in a large stone sarcophagas behind the altar.
All around and leading downwards from the church are the quaintest of narrow streets, lined with art and craft shops. And to top it all the peninsula is surrounded rocky little bays, some of which have been levelled and paved to make patio areas on which to sunbathe and swim from. Idyllic.
The Old Town is a small area though, so once we'd spent a couple of hours there, we decided to walk a little further, past all the holiday resort hotels, along the coast to the Golden Cape Park. It’s sort of advertised as a nature reserve, but it’s very much a leisure park, for things such as cycling, climbing, walking, sunbathing and swimming. There are plenty of trees, flowers and wildlife though. Peter and I enjoyed a good few hours wandering.
Having investigated as much as we wanted, we turned to make our way back. Time was getting on and not having eaten since breakfast, we stopped at a lovely restaurant with a view of the sea and the Old Town.
It was such a lovely warm day, in such a lovely town, we didn’t really want to go back. We dawdled our way back to the pier, then decided to sit and watch for a while before boarding a tender back to the ship.
So that was Rovinj.
Tomorrow is Venice, one of the reasons we came on this cruise and a place I’ve never visited. As Peter says…… “Bring it on!”
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