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Wednesday, 17 September 2008
Croatia to Italy bound.............
Here’s a quick catch up.....
We took the short journey from Seget to Split and spent some time exploring the city before catching the night ferry to Italy.
I tried out some special sun oil that a lady had sold me in Trogir market. We later found out that it was possibly made from a local fig tree concoction and is used to help tan the skin – can’t think why she zoomed in on me?! Mixed with carrot (?!) -it can also be used as a sun block. As we walked by a lady selling her own figs she offered Ben a fig. He loved them and ended up sitting next to her at the stall and scoffing fresh figs! We did end up buying a huge bag full and Ben came away happy!
Anyway - In Split we visited the Diocletian’s Roman Palace. These underground rooms are among the best preserved monuments of the Roman building heritage in the world. The palace is a rectangular building (215m by 180m), with four big towers at each corner, four gates on each side and four small towers on its walls. These underground rooms were very cool- ideal for the climate and just another example of Roman thinking beyond its time! There were many examples of advanced craftsmanship in the construction of this building – only using manual skills and many hours of labour. (We have seen many more examples of this during our time in Italy too).
FACT-OID:
· Thinking back to Slovenia for a moment –we forgot to mention that (in our experience) if you would like to buy some shoes – the price displayed is for only one shoe!
Wednesday, 17 September 2008 22:06:46 (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00) Croatia