Istria

This is a large peninsula into the northern Adriatic sea. It’s mostly Croatian, with some parts in the north being Slovenian and Italian.

Curiously, I have driven across Istria (without knowing what it was called). I attended a conference in Opatija, Croatia in late summer 2023. When I was leaving, dropped a new friend off at the airport in Pula, which is on the southern tip of Istria, then drove north to Trieste, Italy, thereby driving the entire length of Istria.

Why I Looked It Up

In an article about a wine scammer:

But of all his hobbies and indulgences, it’s wine that puts a special glint in his eye. “It’s a beautiful process, to coax something like that out of a fruit,” he says, after telling me about the vineyard he owns on an Istrian hillside.

Postscript

From Superspy Science:

Bond and Tatiana escape the bad guys by hopping into one of their boats, conveniently laden with several large barrels of fuel, more than enough to take them from the Istrian peninsula across the Adriatic Sea to Venice.