Hotel Vestibul Palace Split

... so a lot of people in Split would have gone back to their villages or home town for the weekend.
Also explains why the graves in Zagreb looked so good the day too.
Went to Gaga which the barman at the first bar said if any place would be busy, that place would be and it was dead.

Saturday walked around the market, got Burek for breakfast and then up a bunch of stairs to get a good look over Split.
Such a beautiful ...

... it was the perfect time to be sick. We just watched movies on his laptop, American shows on the TV with 2 channels (Friends, Xena Warrior Princess…), cooked, and played Chess on our mini travel set. Overall, it was nice to relax but I know I started feeling a little bored.

Saturday came around and the storm was clearing (only a little bit of rain and clouds that morning). We then hopped on a ferry to another island, called Korcula.

... the town just around the bend and there is a promenade that we are looking forward to walking along…we are also hoping for some seafood for dinner!

This campsite is along the coast of Croatia just before the bigger town of Split. Yesterday, we drove from our campsite near Zadar along the coast for a couple of hours and found this spot…we wanted something that was close to a small town and also to Split, but ...

... to dump our bags on the ship before a little exploration around Split. Quite a pretty little town, had a little bit of a feel like Greece being a seaside town with plenty of alleyways with nooks and crannys. Wandering our way through we saw a couple of the markets, a few ruins and a statue which must have been important in some way (rub his toe).

We got onboard and said our hellos to everyone onboard. 28 people ..... 16 South Africans ... yes 16!! We were out numbered!! 6 ...

It was a 4 & half hour bus journey to Split from Mostar, yet another uneventful border crossing, with no stamps :( Why do I even have a passport for Europe?? Checked into a really chilled hostel and the Austalian assualt was about to begin... I knew from Zagreb and Slovenia that I was about to encounter the Australian plague that hits the Croatian coastline and it wasn't long walking around the streets of Split ...

... we headed back to town for some dinner. We joined most of the locals and bought pizza by the slice from a corner pizzeria before heading to the bus and train stations to book some tickets for the next few days. After lots of deliberation we worked out we would have to drop the Bosnian leg of our journey as it was just getting too hard to travel on from there northwards. Back in the hostel we hit the internet for a bit before going to sleep.

... I usually get. It only took me decades, but I am finally listening to common sense and the advice of my friends. Thanks guys! Above me on the cliffs, were a couple of churches that were actually built in the cliffs. How do I get up there, without walking?? Well, let me try sneaking in between these barriers on what looks like the road I need. Out jumps and young man, "NO, NO, NO". Darn that, I will have to walk. Oh ...

We took a guilded walking tour of Split this morning. It was about 2 hours and covered most of the intresting places in Split, the old palace of a former Roman Emperor. Large portions of it still survive even to the extent that people are living in its outer walls still today ...

... except it was closed. Go figure. A few hundred meters down the road, however, I found the Mestrovic Gallery, which contained sculptures by one of the most famous Croatian artists, Ivan Mestrovic. I spent some time browsing at the gallery and then at the nearby Mestrovic chapel. The chapel itself was nothing special, containing a few sculptures and not much else, but the gate to enter the grounds was surrounded by rose ...