Porec is a nearly immaculate town that is best experienced in the morning, before the busloads of visitors blot out the sheen of the stone pedestrian thoroughfares and descend on the 1,500-year 1,500-yearsian Basilica.
We threaded past the sleeping shopping malls and shiny multiplexes, down a series of winding streets and through a stone pedestrian tunnel, until we emerged beneath raised train tracks.
She is an articulate lawyer who was on the street, 15 feet away by her own estimate, when someone smashed a six-pound paving stone into a pedestrian's head, nearly killing her.
This one-mile canal-walk, ribbed with stone and iron pedestrian bridges, will get you there - in mind at least.
She's too stoned for such pedestrian things.
There have been other incidents, too: shootings on buses and trains, cars ramming into pedestrians, stone throwing and daily demonstrations that were met with massive displays of force by police and military using concrete road barriers, rubber bullets (or worse), tear gas, and the spraying of an especially putrid substance called "skunk water".
We use data from surface scatters of stone artefacts collected during pedestrian survey to compare behaviours at landform boundaries to behaviours at the centers of landforms.
Table with a View Honeymooners, or anyone with an eye for a view, will want to book a meal at the Osteria Ponte Pietra (Via Ponte Pietra, 34; 39-045-804-1929) right at the entrance to the pedestrian-only stone bridge over the Adige, with outdoor tables tucked into two terraces (book well in advance in the summer).
Ensconced behind thick stone walls with views of pedestrian traffic, Stash's offers four-course menus for $13 to $16.50.
3 p.m. 1. SCENIC ENCLAVE Most visitors snap a photo of the wavy black-and-white stone paving of Senado Square, a pedestrian plaza that's the symbolic heart of the peninsula, and move on.
Built to hold two passengers, they're guided by a pair of debonair drivers who push and pull using guide ropes, braking with heavy rubber-soled boots, as the contraptions careen down the steep, narrow streets, barely averting the high stone walls, cars, trucks and pedestrians.
