Day 7 Piran -- Kanal

After last night’s excesses, especially the dessert (morski val) and the fact that we went to bed at 12:30 am, we woke up at a quarter to 10 am. We went to the main square and had coffee and lovely croissants in an outdoor café, then went to a sea salt shop and bought some salt souvenirs and then back to the room to pack. When we were already sitting on the bus to the parking garage when Lucy realized that she left her cat necklace in the room. We had to get off the bus and Lucy and Reni went back to look for it. They were lucky that the landlady was there and also that they found the cat. They also cried a little together with the landlady (Anna) who turned out to be a widow as well.
When we got to the parking garage, we changed into swimsuits and went to the nearby beach by Grand Hotel Bernardin. We swam in the Adriatic sea, sat on the beach for about 2 hours and then started on our way.
We drove along the Slovenian wine road through lovely small villages and vineyards on slopes of mountains and hills until we reached the valley of the river Soca. (The river has an amazing emerald green color due to a large amount of chromium)Then we drove along the valley until we got to a little picturesque town called Kanal and decided to start looking for a place to sleep. We were lucky again and found a nice apartment (2 bedrooms, kitchen, living room and bathroom) in a house with a nice garden high above the town for 18 euro per person. The owner, a woman about our age, took a liking to us and brought us a bowl of cherries from her garden and a pitcher if white wine from a local winery. We relaxed in the garden for some time and then walked down to town to a pizzeria. We ordered one pizza, but a very handsome young waiter brought us two. We told him that we only ordered one and he was very apologetic. It turned out not to be a problem because the pizzas were very good and we finished them both. At the end, he brought each of us a cocktail of pineapple, coco and vodka and didn’t charge us for wine to compensate for his mistake. Then we walked some more and ended up in a café for dessert and I am posting it from there.