Random thoughts and photos of my journey through life…
The church was first mentioned in the 13th Century.
It acquired its present day appearance after numerous renovation works in the year 1773 and extensive restoration in the year 1890. It was dedicated to the one of the first Roman popes – St Clement. Because of the dreaded plague that propagated throughout Istria in the 17th [...]
4 Comments CherryPie on Oct 15th 2015
Filed under Heritage, Holidays, Piran & Ljubljana 2015
The distinctive red building in Piran Square is known as the Venetian House, it was built in the mid 15th century.
One of Piran’s most eye-catching structures is the red 15th-century Gothic Venetian House with its tracery windows and balcony in the northeast of the square. There is a story attached to the stone relief between [...]
6 Comments CherryPie on Oct 14th 2015
Filed under Faith Foundations, Holidays, Piran & Ljubljana 2015
You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.
Rabindranath Tagore
10 Comments CherryPie on Oct 11th 2015
Our early morning call woke us at 4.20 am and we quickly showered and packed the last few items in our cases with a view to being outside ready for our 5.30 transfer that the Ljubljana representative had told us to expect. The room phone rang at 5 am and when I picked it up [...]
10 Comments CherryPie on Oct 10th 2015
After breakfast, which was even more chaotic than it had been the previous two mornings, we set off towards the Museum of Contemporary History. On the way we stopped off at one of the bookshops that we had visited the previous day so that I could buy a book about the Crusades and Crusader Knights [...]
10 Comments CherryPie on Oct 9th 2015
Filed under Anecdotes, Holidays, Piran & Ljubljana 2015
After breakfast we visited St Nicholas’ Cathedral and the Franciscan Church of the Annunciation. Both were decorated in a similar style inside. After these visits we went to look inside the Galerija Emporium department store to look at the Art Deco features of the building. There was not much to be seen on the inside [...]
10 Comments CherryPie on Oct 7th 2015
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After such an early start the previous day we had a lie-in to recover. It was fairly chaotic when we arrived for breakfast due to the volume of people. The breakfast itself was a standard chain hotel continental breakfast.
After breakfast we took the funicular to Ljubljana Castle where we spent the whole day. On arrival [...]
12 Comments CherryPie on Oct 6th 2015
