More Adriatic Coast Pula

Getting to Pula from Porec was a breeze, literally, it was windy and no good for diving anyway. About 60 Km with a couple stops. We found a winery with a very good selection of wines, red and white. Their Malvazja is delicious and can be done in a lot of various ways. The minerality is pronounced and quite delightful.

The town is actually quite large with a very active port. We found the dive shop near the B&B and spoke with Dani the owner. They have caves to dive as well as a cliff and reef. They have a large dive boat that is similar to some of the Caribbean boats we are familiar with. Dani is fun to talk to, he owns the shop and he was our first guide. We did two cave dives and two wall dives. The caves are very cool, the walls are different as well. There is not a lot of colour but the diving is interesting anyway.

The old town was small and frankly we were not very interested in visiting another castle. There are some nice views around town and our accommodation is interesting. There are 4 keys to get in and around. The host was very nice as were the other guests, ‘Guten Morgen’, every morning.

They do have Roman remains here, some gates, and arena and a theatre. 

I noticed that they are having a night of opera at the theatre so we get some tickets. We thought it was in the arena at first but it’s in the old theatre. The arena had a banner promoting Tom Jones! Is he still alive? Apparently, he is 84 or something and still commands €140 for standing room and €300 for a seat!

The opera show was a series of arias from a variety of different operas although they did rely on Puccini rather heavily.