Trieste

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Some pictures from our trip to Trieste, Italy in February 2002.  We basically drove from Sarajevo -- five hours in the company car to Zagreb, then another two or so hours in a rental car from Zagreb through Slovenia to Trieste, right over the border.

Trieste is an odd border town that is the subject of a number of books because of its changing identity over the years.  Once it was the main port for the Austro-Hungarian empire (you can see the Viennese influence in the the café in pictures 1 and 2, especially that Viennese symbol, the "Sacher Torte" cake).  Picture 3 (of our hotel) looks pretty much like modern Italy -- you can see the noisy traffic in this picture.    Picture 4 shows the Balkan influence -- it's the interior of a Serbian Orthodox church (probably the richest-looking one we've seen so far -- the ones in Bosnia are pretty impoverished).  Maybe a good symbol of Trieste is the train station in picture 5 (Julie posing to the side) -- you can go to Rome, Vienna, or Ljubljana from here.  Picture 6:  we were amazed by those nifty Western conveniences -- Julie made business cards at this automatic machine in the train station, just like an enterprising Italian.

 

Urbino

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Pictures from our trip to the Le Marche region of Italy in March 2002.  It's a hop, skip, and jump from Sarajevo -- actually, you have to drive 5 hours to Split, take an overnight ferry to Ancona, and then rent a car if you want to look around.  We stayed in Urbino, a pretty Italian hilltop town.  Pictures 7 through 10 are of the castle in Urbino (Picture 9 seems to be Julie in the dungeon).  Picture 11 is a church in Urbino.  Picture 12:  sort of how I picture Italy in my mind's eye:  lombard trees, hills, and (if it were a clear day) the sea in the distance.  Picture 13 is another picture that seems like typical Italy -- something about the light, or maybe it's just the tree. (Actually, it's a street in Macerata).  Picture 14 is on a cliff near Ancona.  Picture 15 and 16 are from our cabin on the ferry back to Croatia -- Julie about to mace me, and the funny-looking instructions on how to put on your life vest.

 

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