From Venice I took the train to Trieste. Trieste is an interesting mix of Slovenian, Austrian and Italian. It was part of the Habsburg Empire for more that 500 years. After World War I it was annexed by Italy. And today It's only a few kilometres from the Slovenian border and in the surrounding villages people still speak Slovene despite the best efforts of the Fascists.
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| Taking a selfie during an evening stroll along the beach promenade in Trieste |
From Trieste you can take a bus north, after about half an hour you'll get to the village of Prosek which you might know better by its Italian name Prosecco. Stay on the bus for another five minutes and you'll be in Briščiki which is the home of Grotta Gigante. It's the biggest cave in the world, or well, so they told us. Turns out what they meant was that it used to be in the Guinness Book of Records as the "world's largest tourist cave" (whatever that means) but it's not anymore. It was overtaken by a cave in the Pyrenees.
As you'd expect the cave was full of
I had just gotten a new camera and a hadn't quite figured out the flash and light settings yet which is rather important in a dark environment like a cave, so some of my photos from the cave look a little silly.
When I came back from the cave I took a walk along the coast. It was simply beautiful.
And the water was clear and warm, perfect for swimming.
After walking for a bit I got to the Miramare Castle. My initial though was that 'castle' was a bit of an overstatement. It was really rather small...
... but then I learned that it was built for the Austrian Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian who later became emperor of Mexico.
And it was in a very beautiful spot, you could see all the way to Croatia.
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| Me in a flowerpot outside the castle |
That's all for today, my dear friends. Next stop Ljubljana!
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