Trieste, Italy

Driving from Lake Bled to Zadar wasn’t exactally a straight shot due to our obligation to drop off our rental car in Italy to avoid a hefty fee. So before crossing the border into Croatia we swung into Italy to drop off the car in Trieste. According to a book we have called 101 Beautiful Small Towns of Italy Trieste was looking like a lovely place to stop for lunch. Unfortunately we did not do any research about where to go in Trieste, thinking that in these small towns it must be obvious, however, when we arrived we discovered that Trieste is in fact not a small town but a gritty large port city! We never found the “beautiful small town” part, but we did find some pizzas. There wasn’t much to see there and our family of five seemed to get a few stares as we felt out of place as tourists here. It looks like a nice place to see in the book, but we are still not sure where the place we were supposed to go is.