Pula, Croatia

Had a chance to have a day in Pula. We are set to meet a friend in Slovenia but was cheaper to fly into Croatia. Pula has a colosseum, called The Arena, which is pretty close in stature to the one in Rome and was built for the same purpose, gladiators.

At first blush one can be shocked that such monuments were built with the main purpose of watching being kill each other or to be ripped apart by wild animals, but are we so different today? Hasn’t boxing always been popular? UFC and MMA fighting are more popular than ever. Is it a sickness or did we somehow evolve with this fatal flaw of self-destruction? I’ll leave it to the philosophers.

Pula also has a nice center plaza that very much reminded me of Siena, Italy. Everyone gathers for food/drink and watches the world go by, my fav. I very much love this aspect of European culture. There were some tunnels we decided to skip, built shortly after WWI, but is quite the impressive network to transport people and goods during bombings. Pula has a nice feel to it and in our usual boomerang fashion, will be coming back shortly:)Read more