Da Trieste

 Here are a few photos from Trieste.

 Rob booked a great hotel room which over looked the harbour.

On our last morning we woke up to this:

an enormous ship from the Costa fleet.  It was so close.

 Trieste's main piazza fronts on to the sea.  Piazza Unità d'Italia is enormous and is supposed to be the biggest piazza in Europe.  The piazza in front of the St Peters looks bigger to me but I'm sure that there would have been someone out there checking with their ruler.

Part of Piazza Unità d'Italia looking out towards the sea

Il Canal Grande, Trieste

The reflections on the water were beautiful

Trieste also has a Canale Grand and I read somewhere that it rivals Venezia's Canale Grande -it is about 100 metres long and there is no comparison.

 Better to enjoy places for what they are than to continually make comparisons -I'm over newspaper and other travel reviews. I really don't care what some person writes about a place when they have had free travel and free accommodation. Also tastes are highly individual. We really love Venice and could live there, you may just like it for a day visit.

We walked about 30 kms around Trieste over the few days that we were there and had a good look around. We ate at a great restaurant -Antico Convento in Via delle Beccherie Vecchie, 2,  Trieste  on both nights (it is always tricky to find somewhere really good so we went two nights and tried different things.  It would become a regular if we lived there.

We also had some great gelato, a fantastic pork panino in the Triestina style with mustard and fresh horseradish from Da Siora Rosa.  We had to be careful what we ordered as we are not big on offal and there were delicacies such as tongue impanata.

We also had the obligatory spritz on comfortable chairs overlooking the vast Piazza Unità d'Italia