We continued our tradition of ending our stay here with a trip to the sea, spending the past three days in Rabac. Rabac is a small village on the eastern side of Istria, the Croatian peninsula that is very popular among Slovenes.
We thought we were going to have prime real estate with the apartment we rented there, as Google Maps showed it to be on the third street in from the shore. What Google Maps didn't show was that the hillside in Rabac rises almost straight up, so the third street in was high above the bay (see below) with a demanding walk down to the water (and an even more demanding walk back up!). But, we had a great view and got plenty of exercise hoofing it up and down to the beach.
There was plenty of sun, plenty of swimming, and, of course, plenty of ice cream cones. But, the highlight of our trip was the last evening, when a student of mine from last year invited us to have dinner at her family's cottage in nearby Labin. Her parents put out quite the spread for us and we sat outside eating dinner until nearly midnight, in typical Slovene fashion. We prepared the kiddos by napping before we went and they had a blast - they got all the attention/juice/desserts they could handle and ran endless circles around the field behind the cottage. Everything about the evening was charming, and it is just one more example of the incredible hospitality people have shown us here.
We thought we were going to have prime real estate with the apartment we rented there, as Google Maps showed it to be on the third street in from the shore. What Google Maps didn't show was that the hillside in Rabac rises almost straight up, so the third street in was high above the bay (see below) with a demanding walk down to the water (and an even more demanding walk back up!). But, we had a great view and got plenty of exercise hoofing it up and down to the beach.
There was plenty of sun, plenty of swimming, and, of course, plenty of ice cream cones. But, the highlight of our trip was the last evening, when a student of mine from last year invited us to have dinner at her family's cottage in nearby Labin. Her parents put out quite the spread for us and we sat outside eating dinner until nearly midnight, in typical Slovene fashion. We prepared the kiddos by napping before we went and they had a blast - they got all the attention/juice/desserts they could handle and ran endless circles around the field behind the cottage. Everything about the evening was charming, and it is just one more example of the incredible hospitality people have shown us here.
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