Day 60 - Brac Island & Split, Croatia

Today the boat had stayed in Postira Port overnight, so no waking up to the boat moving! We had breakfast on the boat & had to meet outside for our final bike ride of the trip at 8:45am. Katie still wasn’t wanting to swap bikes for this last ride unfortunately!

On the ride our first destination was Lovrecina Bay, there was a few up and down parts to the ride so my legs were feeling it today! Katie looked like she hadn’t even broken a sweat! This bay is a Sandy Bay, seeing it was 9:30am and a bit of wind around we opted not to swim this morning, instead we had a coffee from the cafe there - much needed for me!

Our next part of our ride took us up and down along the road, I stuck to the speed limit here only going 50km per hour on the down hill! We rode to the little village of Dol that has only 100 people there today. This where the local cake called Hrapocusa is made and was delightful! After the tasting of the cake we walked around the village and of course had to see the local church - this of course was on a hill!
We rode back to the boat in Postira where we had lunch onboard while the boat started to make its way to Split, our final destination on the boat trip.

Once the boat docked we had nearly two hours until we needed to be back in front of the boat for a walking tour that was included in the trip. We decided to walk around split, found a Zara for Katie to have a browse in seeing it’s been awhile! We also came across a gelato place so seeing the heat was getting to us opted for some refreshing gelato.

Once back at the boat we joined the group for the walking tour. The guide took us to the waterfront and explained that the front used to stop at the front of Diocletian’s Palace, and the Venetians took 300 years to build out the waterfront that is there today. We walked through Diocletian’s cellars where there is a line of shops, no one knew these cellars existed until the 1950’s and they still have only uncovered 1/4 of the cellars that know that are there! We saw the Roman Mausoleum, the North gate and the famous statue of Gregory of Nin, it is said touching his big toe will bring you one wish of a none materialistic thing… of course I touched it, while Katie may of rolled her eyes at me!

We finished the tour through old Venetian town part, there is no Western Wall as the Venetian’s pulled this down to make a newer part of the town and extend Split.

We had our last dinner with everyone on the boat, toasting a good week riding. Final meal was fish which we were very happy with!

The boat had a bit of a rock to it seeing all the ferries coming and going in the port, so after dinner we went for a walk again through Old Town to await the ferries to stop making waves for us so we could go to sleep comfortably.Lue lisää