Our trip to Croatia began in Trieste, Italy. We had to take a big tour bus through Slovenia in order to get there. Sorry- we forgot the take a picture of the bus, but is was comfortable, air conditioned and smoke free. We got to listen to lovely US 80's music in croatian or maybe russian. I was not really sure. It has a population of around 2 million, amazing that a country has the population of Seattle city limits alone. The area we drove through was mostly forest and what appeared to be abandoned fields. Wes noticed right away there were quite a bit of sink holes. Our bus trip was around two hours and we ended up in the town Opatija, Croatia. It is coastal town on the Adriatic Sea and very beautiful. History of this town incudes being a resort town in the 1800's for the Astro-Hungarian empire. In 1920 the town as given to Italy during that time the fascist government started a plan to "italianize" the population. In 1947 it was given to Yugoslavia, and in 1991 after Yugoslavia was dissolved it became a part of Croatia.
View from the bus as well approached the town
View of our hotel. The buildings were beautiful there. We stayed in the wisteria villa.
View of the shoreline. We mistakenly thought there would be sandy beaches. Not so, but the view was still has still spectacular.
The town gardens were really well kept
Pretty grainy photo of Wes standing on our balcony after we put the kids to bed. Decided to get a suite and it was nice to have separate rooms.
Trying to capture the full moon outside our balcony.
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