I am currently writing this blog post from my APARTMENT!! I have a HUUUUUGE place to myself!! I'm not 100% what happened but apparently they overbooked the hostel so they placed me in this apartment but I'm still paying the same price I would be paying for a simple room. Awesome!
We are in the city of Split today, you and I will be sleeping here for the next 4 nights. Split is the second largest city in Croatia and it is, from what I can see, a very popular destination for tourists! I can understand why as the old city core is surrounded by walls, such as these:
And there are 4 doors to get inside such as this one:
But these are not normal walls, this is actually a huge palace that was built in the 4th century by Romans. From Wikipedia: "After the Romans abandoned the site, the Palace remained empty for several centuries. In the 7th century nearby residents fled to the walled palace to escape invading barbarians. Since then the palace has been occupied, with residents making their homes and businesses within the palace basement and directly in its walls. Today many restaurants and shops, and some homes, can still be found within the walls."
I really like the idea while walking in the streets that I'm actually walking inside a palace.
Here are a few more pictures from Split:
And here we have a statue that I have seen on a smaller scale in Varaždin! So nice to recognize something I have seen before! This one is really big:
Since it is not quite clear from the previous picture how big it is, I took another shot along with a tower so you can have a comparison point:
Apparently rubbing his toe brings good luck so I made sure to touch it in order to have good weather for the rest of my trip! I have sure been lucky these past few days with weather as high as 20-something Celsius!
Well, I have found an interesting Croatian TV show and I would like to watch it so that's it for today!
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