Day 95 Splits 2 lives!

Sunday 24/06/2018 Apartment Neva Ulica Marina Getaldića 29, Split, 21000, Croatia

Today’s outing is going t be in Split... so far what we have seen has not impressed us at all... high rises, Graffiti, weeds where gardens or lawn could be p,even around th expensive Hotels just outside their fence line is run down and messy... but we all can be the same in every country or I guess we wouldn’t have a reason to see other cultures.. what we have seen if Croatia so far is more about the social aspect of engaging with one another than the outside looks... and really we hats what it should be, once upon a time neighbours would talk together over the fence, in the streets... now we all either have high fences o keep to ourselves in our own homes only socialising when it suits us to do so..l of unless someone comes knocking... we all have lovely home and gardens.. at the cost of that social interaction w see so much in other cultures as we travel... don’t get me wrong I am not saying our way of life is wrong it’s just that we have changed hugely over the last 30 or so years with how, when and where we do it..we could probably take a leaf out of some of these cultures and bring back some of that one on one stuff that as jus part of our lives..mind you no all countries are like this socialising all the time, but a great number of them do...

So to be back to our day, we headed by foot towards the old city our apartment owner had put a map up in the unit with instructions on how to get to the city how long etc to get there..... well he put down 30 mins of walking and when we me him I can see why he out 30 mins his legs were twice as long as mine so his time would have been much quicker to get there....
It didn’t matter really as we were out to see the sights... the beginning of the sights were through concrete jungles, from our apartment it wen from one lot to the next all connected by steps and walkways probably a good half of our trip was. Spent in amongst the other huge apartment buildings... plenty of shops mostly closed as it’s Sunday... cafes everywhere but only serving coffee,cold drinks and alcohol.... all tastefully done up... scatter amongst it all was Graffiti abounding... we tried to avoid the graffiti in my pics and looking at them now I would say I did pretty good not to put too much in, it really is everywhere on buildings not nice picture type graffiti but scribble everywhere... even if there were some good stuff it usually had scribbled over the top of it... obviously the police don’t crack down on it at all...

We finally made it down to the old section of Split, and by accident which is everything we usually do find things by default, we found an underground or underneath the castle tour... turns out there isn’t much left of the castle up top anyway.. this has been a massive structure in its hay day... just the underneath structure allows you to see how much of the base pillars have taken by their sheer size... we wandered around underneath for about 40 mins in and out of sections, eventually heading up to the top where yep should have realised the hoards were abounding... so now the fight as on to get the pics without 100’s which on days like this you maze well just accept that their there and point and shot... that’s what you do trying to get that prefect pic is not possible unless you eat for ages then usually someone steps into the scene anyway just as you think 🤔 yes I got it...

We wandered around for the next 4-5 hrs... looking in and out if alleys... we had on arrival had a cuppa, it was a fantastic spot right at the top of the port over poking the bay, the street below where all the restaurants, cafes and tourist shops were, the main part of the old city... so for lunch we headed back to this area. Ate from the little takeaway and eatin bar, then sat back up top on that bar to watch the world go by as we did earlier...
This area was also the main area for ships departing to Italy other ports along the Croatian coastline... luxury Cruise small craft and huge big ocean liners all came to this spot as well... plus the man rail line and bus deport was close by, and the place you catch the hop on hop off buses and tour group busses pulled up here... and lastly all the boats tired up to take people day tripping to the outer islands, it’s all happening here....so watching people pushing suitcases everywhere and heading into different directions to access the different moods of transport... was certainly entertaining..and interesting...

Watching people get off the luxury Cruise boats, all smaller than the big liners made be carry 100-200 Mac people was certainly interesting and entertaining, seeing the women all,dolled up with high heals to go walking on those slippery cobblestone alleys...

Our day passes with passages, alleys, little churches dotted here there and everywhere... so many restaurants and cloths shops I have lost count of them... all interesting if I had time to look I am sure... but my mans on a mission look see leave... some days I am sure I have my own tour director... he is so patient waiting fir me to take pics,letting me wander from spot to spot bu don’t stay too long time together move on, at least I ha e been there and seen.. and if I was on my time we might never get home...

We did come across a park, the music pumping and filled with young shirtless guys all chanting, the big screen on the World Cup... they were having a ball, goodness knows what it would be like latter all charged up with Alcohol 🍺....

We had done as much sightseeing as we could physically do, and still had a long walk home... so making our way through mire if the locals area instead of the tourist area as interesting, still plenty of little alleys but set up a bit different more graffiti starting to return..hardly any in the tourist area...seemed strange they could keep,it at bay there but no in their own areas..l watching the elderly men either walking by themselves or in groups watching the world go by... groups of elderly ladies walking in groups chatting away as women do..and kids playing in the alleys or between the huge concrete apartment buildings... we finally made I home totally had it from all the walking and our walk home is all up Hill.... so by the time we hit the apartment we both had to have little kips...

A home cooked meal tonight instead of bought foods... I don’t know if they have never had them, but not one if our apartment buildings have tongs... you don’t realise just blow much we use them in Aus and how much I know I rely on them...

No matter where we have been in Croatia if you’re on the sea or by the sea it looks unreal due to the colour of the edges of the ocean..., total magic colours...

We can now say we have seen Split.. if we were a little richer, I so would have done a trip on a board a boat 🚤 to be out on the ocean here would be so interesting.. but I can’t complain we have seen so much, so many interesting different sights..how blessed we are! Czytaj więcej