Girl Meets Turnip: Rovinj: Part 1

Ahhh relaxation! Love Rovinj!! It's a cute vacation town with lots of food, beautiful sunsets and rocky beaches. Here are some pictures from our first couple days.

Old Town Rovinj

St. Euphemia Church

Adriatic Sea

The beach!

Quaint streets of old town

The view from our apartment looking out to the Adriatic

View from our apartment

View of the front street

A little cafe/wine bar on our street

Found this cat taking a nap outside our window. I named him Figaro

I cracked the window and then he wanted to come in...

Bryan wouldn't let me let him in...

Watching the sunset on the pier

Sunset

Dinner -- not at any place special but our food was good. Grilled calamari and Lasagna

Found a wine bar we love! All local Croatian wine; all fabulous!

Walkway up to the street where our apt is

Inside the church

About to climb the bell tower-- had to overcome my unrational fear of open stairs.

On our way up

View from the top

Red tile roofs

Second sunset

Awesome dinner by the marina -- this is a local Sheep cheese with tomatoes and proscuitto to start

First course -- Shrimp Cocktail -- in the glass is little bay shrimp in a creamy sauce. Very good! Bryan has salted anchovies.

Main Course -- steak and homemade pasta with mushroom sauce

Big festival this weekebd called Rovinj Night -- multiple bands and fireworks at midnight -- this was the first band which covered American music like Soul Man

Second band was Parni Valjak -- guess they are a big rock band from the late 70's and 80's --- everyone (that was Croatian) was singing along. We couldn't understand a thing ;-)