This morning we woke up and enjoyed a morning at the beach before catching a 12:45 bus across the island to catch the ferry. The bus was awesome as we had to climb the steep cliffs behind the town. Then you drive across the top of the island and back down to another sea-side town. The whole bus ride took almost an hour. Supetar was nothing special (expect some dark chocolate gellato). We took the 45 minute car ferry to Split. Split is a big city (almost 200,000 people) and far bigger than were we have been. Although it has its urban sprawl, it does have an amazing old center with the remains of a 5th century palace.
We walked around the palace. It is huge and now filled with new (but very old) buildings (restaurants, bakeries, stores). We toured the basement of the palace. After the fall of the Roman empire it was used as a sewer and garbage can and has just been excavated in the last 10 years and is really cool to walk in.
Our apartment is just outside the old town and is a cute little loft apartment. Too bad we are leaving in the morning. Compared to the other places we have been in Eastern Europe, this is much bigger and more modern, but it just kills us to see grafiti on an old palace. It just isn't something you see in Prague or Dubrovnik.
The gelato here is something special (Only 5 kunas for a big cone), but we are so tired that we are watching British equastrian programming on tv. At least it doesn't have Croatian voice over.
We have an eventful day tomorrow, so we are going to retire early today. We are so excited to see J and take a vacation from our vacation. Sometimes is it is a major ordeal picking out pastries.
Oh, and one more thing before we end this post. Rest assured, cute cats in Bol and Split. Lots of nice cats in Croatia. Just put in a request to get on the list. We saw a white one less than an hour ago that we can track down.
We added some pictures to earlier posts, so check those out. It will just take a second.
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