Yesterday, when we realized that we had another day in Rovinj up our sleeves (due to the fact that ferries only travel to Venice daily in the high season) we took the bold move of booking an ‘excursion’.
To be exact, a Panorama Tour to the Limski Kanal to see the Lim Fjord, (with an hour pauza) and then a 20 minute pauza in cavern.
We arrived at the wharf 20 minutes early so that we would get good seats on the boat. For some reason the guy welcoming us onto the boat presumed that we were German (no!) and was pretty excited when we explained just how far we had come across the world just to go on this Excursion
We had been told that there would be a gratis drink on the tour – what we weren’t told was that immediately the boat left the wharf we were plied with drinks – firstly some rakija (blew Danica’s head off) then some domaci vino, voda, naranca, rakija, vino … and so on. Most of the tourists were Germans, some were Czechs .
The barman was also the Excursion Commentator and was able to move quickly through that boat in three different languages (never forgetting us in the corner) to explain Points of Interest.
Point of Interest number 1 – ‘the next beach we pass is a nature beach’. Laughter from the boat.
• Point of Interest number 2 – ‘the boat passing us is a nature boat’. Laughter from the boat.
• Point of Interest number 3 – ‘the next beach is a nature beach’ as our boat went closer to the rocks – Laughter from the boat….
We travelled up an inlet until we came to a wharf where we all piled out for the hour pauza – we wondered when where the fjord was but we were already in it! To be honest, we were imagining something more dramatic, but we realized how stupid we were, we marvelled at the rock formations etc etc.
And so to the caves.
The boat stopped at a wharf next to an obvious cave – we were told that we had an option – either stay on the boat for the 20 minutes pauza or go and look at the caves for 5 kuna. Now, remembering that Dad had said ‘don’t miss out on any opportunities’ we piled off the boat, resolute in our determination to maximize on our opportunity.
It was a Pirates Bar in a cave – who knew! For your 5 kuna you got to walk through the bar clutching the postcard that you received as the entrance coupon. By now we were nearly hysterical and decided that this was a photo opportunity that we couldn’t turn down – and here are the fruits of our Pirates Cave photos.
Onda, we piled our way back onto the boat, drank more wine, sailed close to the nature beach again and were docked again by 6.00 pm. And that dear readers, will be put into the archives as ..well, and experience. An Excursion if you will. Cheers.
By the way, we are off to Venice tomorrow and there may be a pauza - not sure about my internet connection there…..xx
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