Trieste; Tuesday, 05 August, 2014

Breakfast consumed I headed over to the harbour area to pick up the City Sightseeing tour of Trieste. I did two complete circuits to take in the views from both sides of the bus, even if on the first time round some of those views were through a quite sudden and drenching downpour.

I stayed on the bus back up to the Cathedral and Castle and got off there to have a look around, firstly in the very bizarre Cathedral which was created by merging two neighbouring small churches into one single and architecturally mismatching singe building. The building also includes several bits of the former Roman fortress on the site, with quite large parts of the Bell tower, from the top of which I took in some good views over the city, being made up of clearly recycled chunks of masonry.

From the Cathedral I wandered over to the Castle and had a long look round the site, taking in the various museums and displays. By the time I’d finished in the castle it was already late afternoon, but the weather had improved considerably, so I caught the bus out to the Mirimar palace park and had a wander through there and back down onto the sea front.

I picked up the bus just over an hour later a couple of stops further on from where I’d left it and took it for its final tour of the evening round the city.

Back in the city centre I headed back to the hotel briefly to freshen up before heading out for dinner, this time over by the former canal in the city centre.

I dined at a canal side restaurant which was interesting as a very blowy but warm wind was causing a bit of chaos with the napkins, tablecloths and umbrellas – and at one restaurant on the opposite side of the canal the furniture as it sent a chair crashing into the water.

After dinner I had another stroll round the city centre, picking up a very nice ice-cream on the way, before heading back to the hotel