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  • July 1 - Split
    Split City Tour by Maja Benzon - Diocletian's Palace
    Inside Diocletian's Palace

    Photos by Bob Lynn
    The Golden Gate into the Diocletian's Palace

    Our tour this morning by local guide, Maja Benzon, who took us through the old town. Most of the old town was a huge palace built by Diocletian , a Roman emperor, during the late third century. The palace was partly a villa for the emperor and partly a Roman town. In succeeding years, its wide streets were chopped up into very narrow ones and its buildings were carved up into small housing units. Today it is a warren that is easy for a visitor to get lost in.


    Our tour took most of the morning. It started on the streets and ended in the underground part of the palace. This was timed to be in the coolest part of the tour at the hottest part of the morning.


    After the tour, Ann and I looked for a lunch place. After being turned away from a fully booked restaurant, we settled on a cafe associated with a youth hostel. I had a tasteless hamburger with fries while Ann had a forgettable salad.


    Photos by Bob Lynn
    Swimming Beach

    After that, we braved the heat and tried to take a bus to a museum and swimming beach. We missed the bus so we hiked to a different beach. This family beach was very shallow, so shallow that Ann couldn't get far enough out to swim laps. I sat in a cafe to wait for her and to guard her backpack. When this ordeal was finished, we managed to walk for a mile or so back to our hotel and collapse in our air conditioned room.




    Dinner was on our own. We went to Apetit where Ann had lamb and I had amberjack. We enjoyed our meal, especially the grilled vegetables with a sesame seed sauce. My amberjack had a tomato sauce with bacon and olives - very tasty. Afterwards we sat on a bench on the Riva to watch the world go by and then stopped for gelato at Hajduk which was named after the local soccer team. The ice cream was very good and the scoops were large.


    Here is a link to the photos that I took today.