Split

Monday 20 August 2018

Mum woke me up early (she says I woke her, but I’m sure that’s not right...) and we had breakfast in our accommodation (paid for a private room in a hostel and ended up with a full apartment). Headed out early to find Diocletian’s palace, not hard to find as it was a two minute walk from our place. It’s free to enter and the walls house a huge amount of shops and restaurants, as well as a bell tower which we went up straight away before it got too busy. Great views from the top and it made it much easier to pick a coffee spot. Unfortunately both places we thought looked good were only accepting customers willing to pay for a set menu and big breakfast so we thought ‘sod that’ and went into the markets where we found local bakery with chocolate filled donuts and a coffee place in the middle of all the hubbub with the locals, much nicer!

After our coffee we headed to the front entrance of the palace and went underground to look at some of the areas they’ve excavated over the years to show the Roman foundations. It was very cool down there with lots of history to see and read about. After our wandering we headed back to the apartment for lunch, collecting pizza and juice on the way. After a little bit of down time we headed out again to check out three of the Split beaches for a paddle. There was a very nice atmosphere down at the water and we enjoyed wandering around the coast. We headed back to the palace after our beaching to see more of the areas we didn’t get a chance to explore in the morning then headed back to get ready for dinner.

Went out for dinner at a restaurant overlooking the harbour and spent a lovely time people watching. We have learnt that the meals are so huge in Croatia that one between us is more than enough. We have had a mixed reception to this request but the owner tonight was very nice about it.