Having had some trouble with his lower back, Dave Plant started going to a covered swimming pool that opened in Motovun only a few months ago. After a few visits, a lady working at the pool started chatting with him. “Are you English?” she wanted to know. When he told her that he was, she was rather surprised. “Why are you so surprised?” he wanted to know. She would not tell him, but he kept insisting. “Well,” she spilled the beans at last, “you aren’t ugly!”