Our day in Split

Alright... This is a post of sideways pictures because I cannot figure out how to turn them upright on this computer (because it is all in Italian and I cannot read computer lingo in Italian as of yet).



The day was really nice (like every day in Croatia so far), but a bit colder with the chance of rain later on so we headed up to Split for the day. Our plan was to hand out, see the sights, eat the food and do a bit of shopping before the day was through. We spent another hapless half an hour driving up and down streets looking for parking and finally settled on a small lot, tucked away down some side roads. We had to pay, but it was worth it.

Then we started off into split. Practicall all the roads look like the one in the picture above. It was a very picturesque city. There were tourists, but also a lot of locals, and there weren't so many people around that you felt clostrophobic or overly pressed for space. We walked along the docks, found a Bancomat (atm) and then hit the street markets. I bought some presents for the fam and some cheep tourist knock off type stuff (awesome sunglasses and my drug dealer hat). Once I looked like a tourist beach bum we headed deeper into the city. We wandered up and down streets looking at the cool buildings and statues and just exploring in general.

For lunch we found an amazing pizza shop stuck in the wall of a side street. The employees literally handed you your pizza out through a window that looked onto the street. They were very busy and foot traffic had lined both sides of the road waiting to order. Small one man grocery trucks kept having to get through the crowd. I watched them slowly inch through the pizza mob, with people pressing into the wall on either side of the street, clutching their pizza slices and drinks, trying not to spill anything. We ate our pizza around the corner under a statue. A street musician sat across the road from us playing random bits of songs he had not bothered to fully memorize on an accordian.




Another sideways photo. We had lunch just to the left of the tower, down some steps underneath a giant statue of a man who looked like a wizard, but probably wasn't.




Schyler taking a picture of the wizard.

This guy was having a concert in a few days. He looks like a creepier version of Willy Wonka or something. Anyway we saw his posters up all over Split. Late in the afternoon we were tired and we could see a big bank of clouds looming just over the horizon along with a few distant rumblings of thunder. We went to a super market for dinner supplies and ate back at our hostel. After dinner we played poker outside on the tables next to the kitchen until it got dark.