Woke up today and watched the ship stop out at sea! Wow. How were we to get to land?
Well...we got to ride these adorable jet boats called Tenders. It was a new experience.
We rode into Split for our tour of Diocletian's Palace and cathedral. We did a short two hour walking tour and Audrey dame the whole tour...no problem! It was probably the least impressive island that we have been to so far. If you ever do the Greek islands....you can skip this one. They don't have the euro yet so they wanted us to use there currency the kuna. The word on the street was that they will be converting to the euro.
After the tour, we had a nice lunch at a cafe by the sea. The seaside is set up similar to a boardwalk: cafès lining the street with people eating and sizing everyone up everyone walking by! Lol! My favorite thing was climbing the bell tower in the palace. It was 180 steps to the top!
Shopping here was fun. They had lots of different shops from the highest end things to the little stores that you could bargain with the owner. My favorite was there style of gold that had intricate lines carved in them with little balls connecting each line. ( not sure that you can really picture this...just trust me...they were neat). These were seen at the highest end so therefore...I don't have any of those in my bag to come home.
We did have to bargain with one of the street vendors to get Audrey an extra suitcase to bring home her spoils! Se is having the time of her life. Not sure that she will know what to do with herself when she gets home.
We ended the day playing bingo in the Fusion lounge. We didn't have much luck with that either. It could have had something to do with the fact that we were supposed to be there at 9:15 and we didn't get there until 9:30!!!
We did find out some info that might be helpful to some of you. We were talking to a seasoned cruiser and she said not to buy the tours from the ship. Instead go to cruisingexcursions.com. She had only 6 people on one of her tours on a big bus. We had 40!
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