Sitting on my terrace and consulting a large map of Istria, this afternoon I tried to put the panorama in front of me into numbers, as it were. I wanted to get a feeling of distances between my house and all the main features of the landscape around it. I was especially interested in the features farthest away, which frame my view. And here is a rough sketch. At nine o’clock, due south, is Šubijent. As the crow flies, the top of the hill is a bit less than two kilometers away, as is Brkač, a village on its own hill at ten o’clock. Behind the two is the ridge that runs all the way to he town of Vižinada, at the distance of some five kilometers someplace between ten and eleven o’clock. Beyond Vižinada, roughly at eleven o’clock and some twenty kilometers away, is a stretch of the shiny sea. The ridge comes down from Vižinada to Ponte Porton by the Mirna, which is about seven kilometers away at twelve o’clock, due west. Behind and above it, at a distance of roughly twelve kilometers, is the village of Nova Vas. At one o’clock and ten kilometers away is the town of Grožnjan. The ridge on which it is perched continues toward the town of Oprtalj. Not visible from Motovun, it is just beyond the ridge someplace between two and three o’clock at the distance of roughly four kilometers. Below Oprtalj, at three o’clock and due north, is the village of Livade, which is some two kilometers away. The Mirna valley is about five kilometers wide all the way to Ponte Porton, and then it vanishes from view as it narrows and turns southwest. Šubijent is the highest hill visible from my terrace at three-hundred and fifty-two meters, and all the ridges in view are about three-hundred meters at the highest. The nearby Brkač is at one-hundred and seventy-nine meters, nearly a hundred meters below Motovun. Again, this is a rough sketch of what I see when I sit on my terrace and sip red wine in the cool sunshine of late fall.