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Split - Yr 1. HM 4

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    June 9, 2024
    Split - Yr 1. HM 4

    Split - night 1

    June 9, 2024 in Croatia ⋅ ⛅ 77 °F

    What a great way to start our first night. Easy 3.5 hour direct flight from Edinburgh to Split. A driver who picked us up and a quick dinner and to bed.

    We really love that it’s a 1 hour time difference unlike our last time in Europe from the U.S. and a 9 hour time change.

    The view from our balcony sets the tone.

    Welcome home to Split.    Read more

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    Walking Around our Neighborhood

    June 10, 2024 in Croatia ⋅ ☀️ 81 °F

    Marc headed out early today and did some shopping for our “regular” house basics. Bread, meats, cream, coffee, yoghurt and juice.

    Then we both did our walk about through and around our neighborhood. The town has an amazing first feeling. Our home is a penthouse with a balcony. Sitting here I can see everything that makes Split so interesting. The Coast in front and right, the hills behind, and the beach and sky and the old town built by Diocletian between 295 and 305 ce.

    This will be an interesting month.    Read more

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    Rain in Split Doesn’t Fool Around

    June 12, 2024 in Croatia ⋅ ☁️ 68 °F

    When it rains in Split in the summer it rains! Buckets and buckets and huge rain drops. We are staying in for a while but I’ve got a craving for Mexican food. If it clears up enough we will venture out on a quest. There are several options nearby that claim to be Mexican and not Spanish, we will see. In the meantime comfy and dry indoors is good also.

    Here’s photos from our balcony of the progression of the storm. 8:30 am-9:30am. What a change    Read more

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    No jet way. Stairs off plane only
    Egg sunny side up and runny. It's the thing!Old city wall is part of modern buildingSame wall across the streetKeeping tourists happy with gladiatorsMore Roman ruins inside old townOne of many beaches within the walking distanceOne of many war bunkers along the coastView of harbor from our apartment

    Split - catch up post

    June 13, 2024 in Croatia ⋅ ☀️ 70 °F

    I’ve been lazy and have not posted since we arrived in Split. Sometimes “Slow Travel” is just about hanging out.
    I have been walking around and exploring our new home. Here are some photos that I think are interesting and fun.
    Read the photos caption.    Read more

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    Venue next to the beachFree venue next to Roman Palace

    Film Festival

    June 13, 2024 in Croatia ⋅ ☁️ 70 °F

    10 days of a Film Festival! All films are from the Mediterranean area. There are 4 movie theaters, Three are outdoors. Opening night was wonderful. Movie starts at 9:15; admit is only 3 euros, a glass of wine 5 euros.
    What a great late night discovery    Read more

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    Krka National Park

    June 14, 2024 in Croatia ⋅ ☁️ 77 °F

    A bus tour with 40 complete strangers is not our favorite way to visit anything, but I can honestly say this one was amongst our best.
    A reasonable start time of 8:15 was a good start.
    Hour bus ride to Krka National Park where we had tons of time to walk the boardwalk path and view everything.
    A 30 minute boat ride to the town of Skradin.
    Here we had an hour to eat lunch and then 2 hours of wine tasting.
    Everything flowed smoothly and the view and wine (actually) were really nice.
    An hour and a half back to Split and we wrapped up our day.

    Krka is an incredible place with waterfalls and streams that flow down. Yes, I know you are thinking gee, don’t all waterfalls flow down? Well yes and these do that, but the area is also very flat so the waterfall goes down then the resulting stream goes in several directions. Occasionally the stream does a loop. Somehow forming up with the stream again and flowing back over the waterfall a second time. It must be the flatness of the pools and streams that does it.
    No fishing or swimming allowed so the fish (might have been trout) are large and very calm and happy to swim in schools.
    The frogs are also cool with crazy rrrrbit, rrrrbit that kind of echo in a way where one frog sounds like several.
    I highly recommend this adventure.    Read more

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    Marc looks pensive, but he is happy
    The entrance to the church is full of biblical iconographyInteresting architecture

    Trogir

    June 18, 2024 in Croatia ⋅ ☀️ 82 °F

    In the other side of the bay is the town of Trogir. It felt similar to Split without the Palace and without sooo many tourists but still many.
    Lively narrow streets and a central plaza with government building, court, and church on three sides of the plaza.Read more

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    The fortress from afarDuring different times this space was a mosque, a Christian church then a Catholic ChurchThe walls of the fortressThe view from the fortressRoman Aquaduct next to freeway

    Klis Fortress

    June 18, 2024 in Croatia ⋅ ☀️ 86 °F

    Bus tour stop at Klis Fortress. Originally built by the Romans but added to over and over by each subsequent army. It’s such an obvious spot for a fortress.
    The walls and structures seem pretty well preserved but there isn’t much substance within the walls. One room of swords and weapons and a few items in the building last used as a Christian church.
    Nice views but it was very hot 36c when we were there.    Read more

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    The wall thickness is incredible and it still stands!Foundation of houses and storeroomsThe amphitheaterThe amphitheater arches at the lower level towards the seatingCan you imagine that Romans used to walk this way to their seats?A necropolis. The interned were moved long agoAmazing that I could just walk into the center

    Salona

    June 19, 2024 in Croatia ⋅ ☀️ 73 °F

    This is a Roman archeological site. Salina had an interesting history of growth and then abandonment. At its height it was home to 60,000 Roman’s but after Rome fell, the people didn’t feel safe and moved into the protective walls of the Diocletian Palace in Split about 5 km away. There are lots of walls, a few arches, the remains of a cemetery and divided out farm plots.
    There isn’t a lot of explanation of what you are looking at which made the site hard to understand.
    Here is some background…

    Salona was first mentioned as an Illyrian town in 119 BC and it's thought that it already had walls by then. The Romans seized the site in 78 BC and under the rule of Augustus it became the administrative headquarters of the empire's Dalmatian province.

    The original city spread west to the 2nd-century amphitheatre, destroyed in the 17th century by the Venetians to prevent it from being used as a refuge by Turkish raiders. At one time it could accommodate 18,000 spectators, which gives an idea of the size and importance of ancient Salona.

    It was interesting that the amphitheater and the entire site was wide open. I walked down and into the center. And was able to walk in the same steps as those spectators from the 2nd century.
    Very cool.    Read more

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    Shopping Mall

    June 19, 2024 in Croatia ⋅ ⛅ 86 °F

    I, Pam, have worked out that what is considered hot weather clothes in California is NOT hot weather clothes in Croatia. In other words my cotton shorts and t shirts, are too hot and too “in-styled”. I’ve decided to “cool” my wardrobe and style it up. Luckily, there is a shopping mall in Split and a free shuttle bus from the port that will get me there.
    It’s taken a couple of trips on the shuttle and adventuring in the mall to buy a few things.
    Linen shorts, linen pants, lighter weight shirt, pair of shoes… and I’m now styling like a European!! And much cooler, (in temp and looks).
    So, clothes shopping was a bit odd as the sizes are all European, even the adidas tennis shoes I tried on were all different sizes and don’t ask about the shirts. Everything I tried on had to be in XL!
    On the other hand the mall had an excellent assortment of shops: H&M, Guess, jewelry stores, electronics, a super market, flower store, butcher with fresh meat, butcher with dry aged beef, vegetables, penthouse balcony sit-down restaurant.
    I jokingly said if the zombie apocalypse happened that mall could keep you happy for years.    Read more

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    Omis

    June 21, 2024 in Croatia ⋅ ☀️ 97 °F

    The Adriatic Coast is wonderful. Full of old towns and lots of water front with beaches. Not huge long sweeping beaches that are hundred yards long like Maui, little tiny beaches. Some no more than 12 feet wide.
    With so much coastline the Croatians love their beaches and everyone, of all ages, can be seen at the beach. Little old men in speedos, young folks in thongs, kids in diapers, and at the beach Marc visited last Monday everyone was nude.
    There is a beach for everyone and all styles. The water is crystal clear and as the coast is also protected by islands there are few places with waves or surf of any kind. And the ground slopes slowly so you can easily wade out over 30 or more yards and still be in 4’ or less of water. The beaches have also made an effort to include water playgrounds. Floating pods, bouncing things, slides, and jumping pads are free to use and the floating things are not far into the water.
    Today we went to the town of Omis. About 45 minute bus ride south. Nice beach, nice old town, a river boat ride, and we weren’t at home for the power outage.    Read more

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    We Are Having a Heat Wave….

    June 21, 2024 in Croatia ⋅ ☀️ 90 °F

    The past two days have been brutally hot. Up to 100’sF and there is some sort of inversion of haze that is blocking out the visibility like a fog, but it is also bouncing the heat keeping the temps up all night long.
    We took a walk at 10:00pm but it was still over 85F! My body isn’t made for the heat and I need A/c, Marc just hates the a/c so we are always at temperature conflict.
    And if the straight heat and inversion wasn’t enough today, June 21, there was a massive power failure effecting 4 countries: Croatia, Montenegro Bosnia-Herzegovina and Albania. Power restored in Split in a few hours but Bosnia hasn’t recovered and it’s been 5 hours. It must be horrible.
    Ironically we had planned a wine tasting to Bosnia for today, but it was postponed by the tour company until Sunday. Lucky for us.    Read more

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    Hvar daytrip

    June 22, 2024 in Croatia ⋅ ☀️ 82 °F

    The town of Hvar is on the island of Hvar, about 47K from Split. The fast catamaran ferry gets there in about one hour. I went for a day.
    This is a very busy tourist town. Full of boats for hire and big yachts. The harbor is lined with restaurants and hotels. There is a wonderful pedestrian walkway around the coast for over a mile. Stair walkway go up past the coast buildings to the streets above. The rocky shore has lounge chairs every where they fit. Many small swimming beaches along the shore.
    It was a great place to wonder and people watch all day.
    Travel with Marc    Read more

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    Tourists!Shops built into cliff overhangWar damage from 1994

    More Mostar

    June 23, 2024 in Bosnia and Herzegovina ⋅ ☀️ 86 °F

    Here are some photos I took while at Mostar. Pam’s post is maxed out on pics.

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    3Wine tasting. The grapes grown here survive in consistent temps above 105f
    Stone path through the vendors. This area was heavily bombed in the 1991-1995 warBosnia during the war of 1991-19952This guy will jump from the bridge into the very cold water.

    Mostar- Bosnia Hertzagovina

    June 23, 2024 in Bosnia and Herzegovina ⋅ ☀️ 90 °F

    Less than 2 hour drive and we crossed the border into another country. Bosnia Herzegovina with a difficult past and it is a recent past. I won’t attempt to explain the civil war and the events both before and afterward, but I can say that the town of Mostar is interesting and beautiful. It is still a city divided by religions, Muslim, catholic and Christian but they are now living together in a city divided by a river with Mosques on one side, Catholic churches on the other, Christian churches in the middle, and a synagogue added into the mix.
    We even had a Bosnian wine tasting.    Read more

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    Start of hill, only good for 40 yards420 minutes uphill just like thisTop of the hillSalt and pepper shakers of the Virgin MaryThe Main Street had so many shops like thisThe priest and the 6 people who all had the visions

    Pilgrimage to Medugorje

    June 23, 2024 in Bosnia and Herzegovina ⋅ ☀️ 93 °F

    Our second stop in Bosnia-Herzegovina was the small town of Medugorje. This town is the 4th most popular Catholic Pilgrimage destination in Europe. Big surprise for me!
    Long story short, six teenagers were on a hill overlooking the town in 1981 when they all were visited by the Virgin Mary. The town now gets over 1m pilgrims a year to pray at the local church and to climb the hill where the “visions” occurred.
    The town is now full of shops selling icons to the pilgrims.
    The hike up apparition hill is very steep with only jagged rocks on the path. It was hot, and the worst footing I’ve ever encountered on any trail. The church and town have left the trail and the area natural (unimproved) so as not to change the environment and feel of the area.
    The stores in the town almost exclusively sell religious items. Some items (like the salt and pepper shakers in the photo) are more playful than others.    Read more

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    The entire port of MilnaEntering DubrovnikKorcula portMilna and it was raining

    Island Catamaran

    June 25, 2024 in Croatia ⋅ ☁️ 77 °F

    Today we are heading to Dubrovnik. There is a surprisingly limited number of ways to get down coastal Croatia.
    The train tracks don’t go south beyond Split. And a bus ride works but recently the Flexibus, the long distance provider in the region, has had bad luck with their buses breaking down. So, we opted for a ferry ride south.
    With stops at the islands and cities of: Milna on the island of Brac, Hvar City on the island of Hvar, Korcula on the island of Korcula, Pomona on the island of Mljet and then Dubrovnik on mainland Croatia. Very smooth ride and the seats are really comfortable. The 5 1/2 hour trip zipped by. We will be staying two nights in Dubrovnik and one night in Korcula.    Read more

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    Thar be Pirates at the Castle!

    June 25, 2024 in Croatia ⋅ ⛅ 77 °F

    Dubrovnik castle was visited by privateers at sunset. A beautiful two mast sloop, filled with pirates, came into the small protected harbor to steel away a few souls into the night. The sloop was under the watchful eye of a huge five mast brig just off the harbor.Read more

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    I love all these secret stairsLooks like Italy but is MontenegroI want to live up this walkway

    Perast - Montenegro

    June 26, 2024 in Montenegro ⋅ ☁️ 79 °F

    Cross the border into Montenegro and we had breakfast and a walk about in Perast.
    The was a road on the water and a single walkway on the other side.
    Just adorable.

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    Nice to know the country is warming me of the hazards of sugar.
    Baked potato. I hadn't seen this type of fast food in a long time.A rocky rock beach. It was uncomfortable in my sandals but more uncomfortable in bare feet.The iconic image. Story is a woman who waited for her true love to return from the seaOur 9 passenger tour vans fit right on the ferry1That our grey tour van

    Budva - Last Stop in Montenegro

    June 26, 2024 in Montenegro ⋅ ⛅ 86 °F

    We crossed the mountains to the coast. Again, another walled city. This was the smallest of the three we saw today. It was interesting to see several very large cruise ships in what appeared to be a small port.
    We wrapped up our visit by crossing a straight on a car ferry. A 10 minute crossing saved us 40 minute drive and cost 7.5€
    I’ve included a photo of the menu from our lunch restaurant. It’s in three languages. Croatian, English and Montenegrin. Not only does it show the use of a different alphabet but it shows how Montenegro is concerned for our food health.    Read more

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    Dubrovnik

    June 27, 2024 in Croatia ⋅ ⛅ 72 °F

    We woke up and headed out of Dubronik. Our ferry was at 2:15 so we had extra time to explore. We headed to the gondola. A bit expensive 27€ each but we did it.
    Wow! What a view. Also a restaurant at the top and some adventure type things. We weren’t feeling adventurous so settled for a slow lunch.
    And Marc loves sardines so he was very happy.    Read more

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    Marc was being so lovely and taking good care of me
    21The swing in the water. Instagram worthy, but kids took it over2Marc's favorite shop. So many cool brass navigation pieces.The path to our studio apartment for the night2Our studio apartment for the night. Within the walls of Korcula.

    Kortcula - island stop

    June 28, 2024 in Croatia ⋅ ☀️ 82 °F

    We stayed only one night in the city of Korcula, on the island of Korcula. There are 1,250 islands, 40 are inhabited. Some are just rocks with trees. Most have spectacular beaches and coves.
    Korcula might be the birthplace of explorer Marco Polo but honestly it’s the beaches that make this island beautiful.
    We found a resort called La Banya with lounges, umbrellas, and food and drink service. We spent many hours watching the blue water and the people in the cove. Very relaxing    Read more

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    Model of the original Roman Palace
    Guards at main courtyard for touristsMain Courtyard at nightTypical street to shops, restaurants & hotelsSome ruins that are not yet restoredNew buildings squeezed into any spaceModern buildings on top of ancient walls

    Retired Roman Emperor

    June 29, 2024 in Croatia ⋅ ☀️ 90 °F

    This post is full of pics of many centuries of new walls being built on top and next to the ancient Roman walls and foundations. And then rebuilt again and again.
    On May 1st 305 AD, the Roman Emperor Diocletian retired from Rome and moved into his brand new Palace in what is now Split Croatia. Diocletian was the first ever emperor/Cesar to retire. All previous died in office. Most of them murdered. Therefore, this palace was built like the most modern Roman fortress, with tall walls on all sides and a full complement of soldiers to protect the retired Emperor.
    Diocletian only lived in the Palace about 5 years before he died of natural causes.
    Long story short, The Roman Empire went away and this old palace was forgotten. Except for the local people who liked the walls to protect them from bad guys roaming the country side.
    New apartments and shops are built on top and next to the ancient walls and foundations.    Read more

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    We think this means when it snows be careful. Or maybe not
    A toddler drew this part of the roadBungee jumping off this bridge has tickets availableYugoslavian era housingMore roads drawn by a toddlerLooking down on TrogirThe sign for a "dental spa". Dental tourism is big hereThe pebbles on the beach are huge!The ramp in the left is so that you wan walk down to enter the water for a morning swimWider roads than Scotland, narrow for Croatia

    Road Trip Views

    July 2, 2024 in Croatia ⋅ 🌬 77 °F

    On the two hour drive to Zadar we avoided toll roads and took smaller roads. Croatia has mountains, olive trees, vineyards and some very small passages that they call streets. Not all of our path was on roads this narrow but after the Isle of Skye in Scotland, Marc said these roads are a breeze.Read more

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