Split

We had a great sleep last night and after dawdling around our room for a bit we went out; first we climbed up the church tower. The tower stairs were very creepy to me.

The photo above (taken from the first or second level of the bell tower) has a circle around “our” covered terrace where we ate a couple of our meals.

The photo above has an arrow pointing to the present day location of our building, in the then ancient city in Diocletian times (300 AD)

Afterwards to the “basement” part of this huge palace. 

The basement has an interesting history but there was no point in taking many photos that essentially looked the same. When these basements were excavated (and not all areas have been cleared yet) the area was FULL of  refuse and what is now dirt (but was poop “back in the day”). There are holes in the ceilings at various points where people had broken through the basement roof in order to make a toilet hole from their homes above.

Afterwards we went back to our place for lunch. 

We pre-booked a taxi to pick us up at 0430 a short ways outside the palace walls ( fingers crossed there😬).

Next, a climb up the small mountain/hill on the edge of the port area. It was a nice hike but we made a mistake in not bringing water so we cut short the walk and headed back down to the waterfront area where we soon enjoyed a coke/water at an outdoor cafe along the water front

I had to use an ATM to get more cash and Caro needed to get some stuff so once that was accomplished we headed back to our place. 

Interestingly there have been concerts every night here. Usually we can’t  hear them well ( even though they are held only 60 steps and around a corner from us). This afternoon is a different story. There is some kind of rock band going “hard at it” and we hear them clear as day ( we have our windows open). 

In the evening we went to the pizza place on the street level below us and had a fantastic pizza ( Croatia style)

Also we found out the band name that is playing their set as I write this. The drummer is the star Billy Cobham. I had to look him up. He 80 years old now, in a couple of Halls of fame and has played with many of the stars of the 60’s and 70’s.

When the band takes a break we can hear another group singing quite clearly (and beautifully). They are located slightly to the left of our building in a round palace entrance that has beautiful acoustics. In fact earlier today we listened to three men sing old Croatian music in another one of these acoustically beautiful places within the palace walls. They were playing for tips and of course we helped them out!!