Oh wow, it's sunny and warm and everything this morning. What a treat to be able to wear shorts and sandals again after all the rain of the last week. Today we have a 70km, reasonably hilly ride to Pula, and feeling good about it.
Leaving Novigrad was quite spectacular with a causeway across the estuary then a steep climb. We passed through small villages and farmland in glorious sunshine.
There was one very long descent and ascent across a river valley, but we managed it!
Pula is gorgeous with lots of ancient ruins including the biggest complete Roman amphitheatre in the world. They still use it for concerts and we were surprised at the famous people performing this summer: Lenny Kravitz, John Legend, David Byrne and even Ricky Martin! Big names for a relatively small city and venue.
We also visited the fort which has a lift that takes you down to 2 levels of tunnels. The lower level tunnels are 700m long under the city and were built between the World Wars. Very cool.
Love, Kat & Mat x
It was sunny and warm, what a treat to be able to wear shorts and sandals again after all the rain. Leaving Novigrad quite spectacular with a causeway across the estuary then a steep climb. We passed through small villages and farmland in glorious sunshine.
Pula is gorgeous with lots of ancient ruins including the biggest complete Roman amphitheatre in the world. They still use it for concerts and we were surprised at the famous people performing this summer: Lenny Kravitz, John Legend, David Byrne and even Ricky Martin! Big names for a relatively small city and venue.
We also visited the fort which has a lift that takes you down to 2 levels of tunnels. The lower level tunnels are 700m long under the city and were built between the World Wars. In the evening we went to see the Lighting Giants - huge cranes in the docks lit up in different colours.
