More Of The Interior Hill Towns Of Istria, Croatia — Small, Languid, Some Partially Or Totally Abandoned, And All Yours For The Taking, Part 2

Everything seems to be only five or ten kilometers apart in Istria.  All day, when I looked at my next destination on the map, it always seemed to be about ten clicks away, as the bird flies.  Driving, however, wasn’t much harder.  In the northern part of Croatia’s Istria peninsula, one could hop to a…

The Interior Hill Towns Of Istria, Croatia — Small, Languid, Some Partially Or Totally Abandoned, And All Yours For The Taking. Part 1

I drove into the one main turning circle in the tiny town of Svetvinčenat, in the Istria Peninsula in the very northern part of coastal Croatia.  The rental car’s GPS was spouting instructions about turning left, right, or perhaps upward, quickly, but I could tell I was as central as one could be here, and…