Koper is a little town about 25 mins from where we were staying. It was located at the bottom of the mountain that had really windy roads. For the most part we had no problem driving the Tesla up and down these roads. There were a few spots that were really thin and if there was another car coming we’d have to pull to the side but that only happened a few times.
Koper itself was a beautiful little town. We parked our car in the parking lot down by the port and it only cost us a few euro for a couple of hours parking. The port area is where a lot of the restaurants, bars, market and parks were located. They have 3 parks along the waterfront for children and, for the most part, the whole area is closed off to cars so we didn’t have to worry about our kids scootering around.
I was amazed at how clean the city was. There were garbage bins everywhere and I dont remember seeing a single piece of trash on the ground. Walking along the waterfront we came to a beach area. There were quite a few people there with their children just hanging out on the grass, playing in the playground or sandbox and a few brave ones were swimming in the cordoned off swimming area. It was a rocky beach with no sand but that might be normal for this area. Coming from Cayman Islands, this wasn’t really our type of beach 🙂
As always, we looked at Trip Advisor to see where we should eat lunch. There were about 70 restaurants listed in Koper and we were happy to see that two of the top ten places to eat where vegetarian! We headed to a little tiny place called Hisa De Rin. It had 3 (tiny) tables and it was packed. All the tables were taken and there were about 5 people ahead of us in line. The selection of food was quite small but the special of the day, or the Workmens meal as they call it, was Vegan. We ordered the special all around and it was a Vegan Moussaka. It was delicious! The portion size was huge and it only cost 5 euros. We visited that restaurant 2 times during or stay.
The old city part of Koper was quite small with one walkway through it that was lined with little cafes, shops and a few bars. We stopped at one of the cafes for a coffee and were happy that they had Rice milk. We saw that they had quite a few craft beers so we decided that we would head back there at some point for a beer. Oh yah, for the beer drinkers out there, there is a cool app called Untappd which lets you track your beers, cheers friends, and find the coolest beers in whatever location you’re in.
Koper is quite a small little town but its definitely a nice one and, if driving by it, one should stop to check it out. The people are friendly, the waterfront is beautiful and you can get a great Vegan meal there too!
We rented a place on airbnb and it was located up a smaller mountain in a little town called Kostabona, just outside of Koper. The town only has about 50 homes, one restaurant and two churches. Our navigation stopped working as we went further up the mountain and we did get a little lost. Funny enough, after driving up a really tiny road, we turned around in a driveway and went back down the hill. It turned out, the driveway we turned around in was the place we were staying in.
The views from the house were pretty nice. Being out in the countryside meant there were a lot of bugs. For the most part we weren’t bothered by this but the girls weren’t too happy about the 3 scorpions that we came across. We all survived and all managed to get away, sting free.