Trogir and Split

Saturday, 21 May, 2016 – Trogir to Split and back

Wake up and the weather is quite beautiful which is largely how it remains for the rest of the trip. However, my day does not start out real great as the breakfast in the Hotel does not suit me and then I get a cold shower. Nevermind.

The first activity of the day is a tour around Trogir. I pass on that so the following photos are from Julie.

Jule comes back and because the breakfast was so ordinary and the weather so great we decide to have a brunch at the seaside, one of a hundred restaurants.

My health food - Burger — My health food – Burger

Back to the Hotel and the whole group loads into the van to go to another coasatl town – Split. But first on the way, we stop by a winery high in the hills. We are met part way up the hill by the owner and follow him first into the grape vines.

There is a major plaque in the ground up at the top.

The owner tells us about the location as being nearly perfect with slopes facing the southern sun, wind to blow away pests and birds, no fear of frost, etc. The root stock is Italian which protects against phyloxera. The only issue is that there is no water, or rather it is too expensive to put in a link to water and there have been recent draught conditions for the vines.

We then walk down the hill to the winery, which is not a winery as such as the grapes are processed, matured and bottled elsewhere. But inside is a nice tasting room type set-up.

The owner’s friend has prepared some impressive snacks but I am too full from the late health food so I pass.

It was a great visit and we depart to go to Split.

There were several limestone quarries in the hills

We finally arrive in Split. Yet another seaside town with lots of tourists,cars and troubles parking although Andrew manages to find a parking spot very close by. The guide is the same one that the guys had in Trogir

I again declined and settled into the cafe in the background there. At that point, my phone stopped working entirely for the rest of the day, acting as if it was out of power – it should not have been. Anyway, all the photos from the rest of the day are from Julie.

The group returns from the tour but there is still quite a time before the dinner booking. I had moved from the cafe to a bench across the way and was joined by Jan and Hugh with Julie buzzing around the outside.

This 3D map of Split had been surrounded most of the day by tourists, mostly Japanese

We go to the restaurant, back in the bowels of the city. The main part of the restaurant was booked out for 30 Koreans so they asked us to go to the smaller wine bar part, of course it was great.