September 18th- monday - Island of Grado

 Today the weather is not so nice. Cloudy with a chance of thunder storms  We are off to taking a boat ride to the Island of Barbara which is an ancient monastery. But first Ellie does a side trip to Aquileia which is the ruins that are being extricate.”This is the RomanEmpire city and later the main center for the dissemination of Christianity in Central Eastern Europe. “  This is a UMESCO site since 1998 and we have even here before. I can see a change since last year. 

                                                    One of the biggest cypress trees and oldest.

  We are off to taking a boat ride to the Island of Barbara which is an ancient monastery and having Lunch there.

On the walls of the church are these pictures and when you look close they all tell the story of how the people died.  Hit by the bus-died in bed with the relatives-killed in the war etc.

                                                                        Olive trees

                                                                The inside was beautiful

                                                        This is the wall on the other side

Lunch at Grado and a private boat ride through the Grado Lguana. 

                                                            The blessing of the harbour

                                                                    Leaving the harbour

Our captain blows his horn and talks on the radio to this island where his friends live all year round.  They fish in the summer and hunt the birds in the winter.

We are off to dinner.. just keep feeding us!