Sunday, May 29, 2011

Marostica

This is a walled city with a castle at the top and a castle at the bottom. This is a view from the highway.

This is one of the towers at the end of the wall.

The town is known for a live chess game (like Harry Potter-Wizard's chess). If you look closely you can see the chess board. The show is only in September every even year. 2012 here we come. The tickets are super expensive, about 80.00 a ticket.

This is one of the castles at the bottom where all the shops are.

The town is also know for cherries. We stopped at this little store and bought some chocolate covered cherries. Matt was in heaven.

This is a cherry vineyard. We stopped at this roadside stand and bought some cherries. We bought a kilo and it only cost 4 euro which is about 4.75 to 5.00. The guy that sold them had a button up shirt that was unbuttoned half way down his belly. Gross. And he was old.

You can see he filled that whole bag.

4 comments:

Mere said...

What fun! Miss you both!

Cameron and Cindy said...

You're having SO much fun! LOVE LOVE LOVE you!! xoxo

Kaarin Engelmann said...

I love Marostica. I can't wait until next year and the chess match!

Thomas, Jesi, and Greyson said...

Yeah glad I can now follow your blog.