Bentley is in Rovinj for the summer, based at the maistra_collection Grand Park Hotel, though most of the time it’s spent moving on and leaving it behind. The coastline quickly gives way to something tighter - narrower roads, changing surfaces, corners arriving one after another. Driving in Istria is the reason to be here, with routes cutting across the landscape, shifting seamlessly between open stretches and more technical sections. Stops are incidental, the road unfolding through vineyards, olive groves, and among small producers in the middle of their day’s work - where arrivals and departures happen without ceremony, and nothing performs for you because nothing needs to. The GTC settles into that same rhythm - not for display, but in the way it covers ground. Moving from open stretches into something tighter and back again, roof down, working with the road rather than against it. It becomes something simpler. Just the road. The place. The time to take it in. Discover more via ...