I knew we'd be tired after visiting three cities in five days, so I booked a house by the ocean in Piran, Slovenia - a small town full of winding passageways (similar to the Amalfi Coast) and amazing views.
Based on the airbnb photos the house looked nice enough, but those pictures didn't quite do it justice. The views were phenomenal as were the gardens - T kept eating grape tomatoes off the vine, while F and P fought over the hammock. All three kids called it the nicest place we've ever stayed. They even hugged me and screamed "thank you! this place is amazing. we never want to leave!" (moments like this don't happen everyday).
Eventually, we navigated the maze-like corridors and made our way into town (luckily Piran is a small city, so it's not too hard to find your way). The town doesn't have a sand beach, so everyone sunbathes on the concrete.
I love how women in Italy all wear bikinis, regardless of body size or age.
At night, we walked to the church behind our house to watch the sunset.
For our first full day in Piran we decided to do nothing. And after three weeks of travel nothing felt pretty wonderful.
In the afternoon, the girls and I explored the "beach" and F accidentally dropped my iPhone in the ocean. I feel like every vacation has a turning point where you all of a sudden become ready to go home and for me this was it. We still had a great final week, but navigating Vienna without a cellphone left me a little drained. Though on the upside I became much better at reading maps.
And at night, Dan made dinner and we watched the sunset again. (Sorry, I know the color is inconsistent in many of these photos, I've been experimenting with new development styles and these photos were the guinea pigs).
The door to our house. I love how it looks so plain from the outside, making the gardens feel like some sort of secret.
We spent our second day in Piran exploring the area - hiking up to a town in the peninsula's interior and then walking back along the coast.
We discovered a free modern art gallery while walking along the ocean.
Piran is definitely the prettiest town along Slovenia's coast. The other towns had more of a cheesy-resort feel.
Apparently, in order to convince T to spend an afternoon reading all we needed to do was take him on vacation for three weeks. Oh, and buy the I Survived series.
We never tired of this view.
Throughout the afternoon, it rained intermittently. We tried to walk to the beach, but kept getting caught in 10 minute downpours.
Still reading.
During one such downpour, we ran into this restaurant, which ended up having some of the best food of our vacation. So so good.
Finally the rain stopped and we swam for awhile.
Ideally, we would have loved more time in Piran, but we still had two more cities left to explore. So we packed up the rental car and headed to the mountains to visit Bled, Slovenia.
More photos later this week . . .
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