2012-04-27 Šibenik, day 27

We are now in the city of Šibenik! In Croatian, when you see a "s" with a backward hat (like this: š), the letter is pronounced like "sh" in the word "shore". Therefore the pronounciation of Šibenik in English is Shibenik!

One of the first person I "met" in Šibenik is King Krešimir IV:

I was quite happy to finally meet him as he seems to be very important in Croatia since he has a trg or a street with his name in every single city I've been to. So we hear of Krešimir IV all the time, but no mentions of number one, two and three so I don't know if they ever existed but they were not much remembered!

What I was excited to see in Šibenik was the cathedral! As I said yesterday, Lonely Planet informed me that it was one of the nicest in Croatia. And I hadn't really looked it up on the Internet first so I didn't know what to expect. Here is what I saw:

I was a tiny bit disappointed... Have they not been to Osijek? And Zagreb? Their cathedrals are 10 000 times nicer!! (I have pictures of both of them so feel free to refer to the posts from these cities to compare yourself).

Not that big a deal, it didn't ruin my day, but I definitely will not trust Lonely Planet's every words anymore! However it may be worth mentioning that the cathedral in Šibenik is one of the UNESCO world heritage monument.

Šibenik has its own castle right in the middle of the old town and here are some pictures that I took of the castle and from the castle:

Ever since I reached Pula, every single city I have been to has been invaded by annoying tourists. Personally not an annoying tourist, I would describe myself as an enhancement to the cities I go to haha! I don't know if it is because we are getting closer and closer to May or if it is because I am now on the coast where tourists are more likely to come, but I must admit that I miss the time when I was the only person walking around with my map looking lost. Tourists get in the way when I want to take pictures. But also, cities that are more likely to be visited by tourists make you pay for everything. The cathedral in Šibenik is the very first Cathedral I had to pay to get into. I also had to pay to get to area where the castle is... Not a huge problem of course but I thought I would share that thought with you in case you consider travelling to the coast of Croatia!

I walked around Šibenik all day and got to see almost everything there is to see

I believe I mentioned before that Šibenik is also on the coast which means it has it's area by the water:

And I've seen real life swans for the very first time in my life, so cool!!

I saw one more event that is worth mentionning, there was a wedding taking place by the water! Actually what I saw was the whole wedding crew walking to the church. I'm not sure whether this was a typical wedding or not but there was someone walking at the front waving a Croatian flag, then the people getting married, then a guitarist and a guy playing the accordion, and then the rest of the people, and everybody was singing.

Tomorrow I was going to go to the few places here and there that I haven't seen today but someone suggested an activity to me and I think that is what I will do instead. You shall see tomorrow! :)