Day 57 Trieste Italy to Rijeka Croatia

We left our B&B in Trieste and drove along the waterfront, there were many people out sunbaking on pieces of concrete early in the morning, which didn't look appealing as it wasn't that warm. We drove on to Koper in Slovenia, thought the border was hard to notice as both countries are in the Schengen area and it was difficult to tell that we had changed country.

Our morning coffee break was in Koper, once our coffee was finished and we were trying to leave we managed to take a wrong turn and ended up driving through the middle of the main square (oops), only to find we couldn't get out on the other side, meaning we had to drive back through again (there was no swearing involved.......). After leaving Koper we crossed the border back into Croatia, holding our breath as we left Slovenia that we wouldn't be hit with a €300 fine over the vignette. The border crossing on our side was easy but the people driving into Slovenia and Italy had a different story with kilometers after kilometers of cars queuing, most of them seemed to be holiday makers with more camper vans and luggage racks than we have ever seen in one place, maybe lots of people were starting their summer holidays that week.

Pula on the coast was our lunch stop where we found a car park right outside the ancient Roman amphitheatre which has been partly restored and impressively resembles a smaller Colosseum. 

After Pula we went on to Rijeka for the night, a port town on the coast, though not as pretty as its name, or many of the other coastal cities in Croatia.