Venice - Slovenia - Pula, Croatia on Saturday 19th July 2014

Said goodbye to our little house in Venice and picked up car without major incident, smooth journey to Trieste and the border, stopping for lunch at a little pizzeria in Latisana where the bloke spun dough to a thin consistency in front of us, spread it with tomato puree and cheese and cooked it. He did manage to drop a cooked one he had done for someone else though!
It was lovely.
However we were stuck in continual traffic jams all through Slovenia for 2 1/2 hours until we ducked out of the traffic to another border crossing one mile from the one that all the rest of the tourists were queuing for and used "white van man" tactics to edge into the other queue. Once across the border to Croatia we were on a brand new toll motorway which was nearly empty. No idea where the rest of the tourists were, possibly on the old A road?

Apartment tiny for 4 but has amazing view of the Adriatic and is only a few meters from the sea

David took the laser pointer gadget we bought (illegally) in St Marks Square and went down after dark to the headland you can see above in middle window (the nearer one), we saw the green light on our wall, so I took a picture - it certainly carries a long way!