Pula
Up next on my Croatian adventure was Pula, or as I'm now going to call it, miniature Rome. It is a charming and quite simply fantastic city with a great vibe and an even greater offering of sights! The jewel in the crown in Pula's amphitheatre. Known locally as simply "The Arena" it is a spectacular sight, and in my opinion, better than the colloseum. There's no shoving, no horrendous ques, cheaper and quite frankly, a more impressive and interesting sight than the actual colloseum. Perhaps even more impressively, you can go under the arena, where there was an exhibition about olives and olive oil! There's also a rather delightful roman forum in Pula, which seems to double up as the main social and meeting space. Originally it had two temples, however one was rebuilt as the town hall, although from the back you can still see parts of the original temple. There's also a pretty cool Fort on the top of the hill, with some interes...