Split

Our initial plan whilst in Split was to explore other islands close by via boats. We weren’t expecting the boats to be quite so expensive. A tour of all five islands in a day was 110 euros, we just didn’t have that, especially with me having some of the most expensive euro places coming up. So, we just decided to stick around Split.

When we got there at 7am, the hotel man picked us up from the train station and took us to some random apartments where we left our luggage as we weren’t allowed to check-in till 2pm. Ugh. We were tired and hot and yuck, and we had 7 hours to kill. It wasn’t the greatest time. We wandered around Diocletian’s palace and through the little market areas, before tiredness truly hit and we ended up just sitting staring at the sea for a good 2/3 hours to pass time.
Eventually, we could check in, and our room was just down the road from the most popular beach, Bacvice beach (also known as ‘sandy beach’ although it wasn’t sandy… ookay). It was always so busy, so I could see what they meant by most popular! There was a really cool inflatable obstacle course in the middle that I wanted to go on, but Alice wasn’t able to swim in the sea, and I didn’t want to be a loner bum, so I gave it a miss too.

Because we couldn’t afford boats to and from other islands, we just decided to go on a ‘semi-submarine’, which was a boat, but with a bit underneath where you could go and see the fish. It was really cool, we saw some nice views of Split and a few fish under the sea (no jellyfish or mermaids though, sadly). So, that was something new and fun.

Apart from that, it was pretty much a chill-out time. Wandering around the palace area which was full of restaurants, shops and markets, and sitting beside the water with an icecream.
We didn’t have any meals out as I stole (well, technically borrowed) the kettle from the room next to us so we could have our pastas. Oh wait, I tell a lie! We did have one meal out. It wasn’t great enough to document though.
Yep, think that’s it for that.