Who knew Pula had such an amazingly preserved Roman arena? We sure didn’t. Arriving shortly after 9am and we have the place basically to ourselves. Even when the first bus load of school kids arrive, it’s like we’re alone.

Fun fact, it’s the only arena that still has its four side towers still intact!

As the sun rises and the crowds gather, we take off down the road to the Forum Square where the Temple of Augustus still stands. As we’re walking around we look at each other stunned at how quiet things are -we aren’t in Dubrovnik anymore.

Before lunch we hit the fort at the top of the hill, it has cannons and everything! Even tunnels, two levels of tunnels in fact. The shallow tunnels are WW1, with the lower tunnels being from the Cold War.

Remember lunch? Holy Kababs!

Then we want to taste the local olive oils – we try one place, full. We drive outside of town to a second place, just a retail counter, the third is the museum of olive oil and offers a tasting. And where do we find this museum? Right across the street from the kabob place we ate at for lunch. Smack my head!!

A quick, sketchy hike in the afternoon to work off all the food and drink is calling our names. The cove we found is known for it’s cliff jumping. But…not today.

Then a final drink with our friends Chris and Toni before we leave each other behind to finish off the day. It must be bedtime by now.