garyandpearl

Nov 6/25

This north eastern Italian city of just under 200,000 has been a very important port city in the past. The reason that we are here today is because Venice does not allow large cruise ships to dock near it because of potential damage to the ancient city. Several of our passengers have made the 2 1/2 hour trip to visit Venice today, but Gary and I chose to explore here instead.

Gary navigated us to the Fort of San Giusto via a beautiful city park called Campagna Prandi.

We climbed up the 90 steps to the bell tower of Cathedral San Giusto Martine.

Trieste had been part of the Hapsburg Monarchy from 1382 to 1918 and thus has an Austrian flair to it. I found a few bakeries that had similar baking to my mom‘s fruit Kuchen and my aunt’s poppyseed rolls.

We headed to a coffee shop, where the author of Ulysses, James Joyce, used to frequent. The cake that we sampled was called Torte 1914, which was the year that the Caffe San Marco Bookstore coffee shop came into existence. The chocolate, coffee, and orange flavoured layer cake was delicious and so exquisitely made!!

We happened upon a chocolate festival, and so we happened to try a few samples .

Bathrooms in Europe usually cost one euro to use, but I happen to use the WC as they call it at our restaurant, and it had motion detector lights. I was barely in there for a few seconds when the bathroom went into complete darkness. I had to wiggle to get the light to turn on again. 😂

We also passed by an ancient Roman theater, Roman ruins, an antique shop, the Grand Canal, and then made our way back onto the ship.

Buona Notte or good night from Italy!