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We’re a little behind with the last few vacation posts, but we’ll get them up. 

Our second last stop on the cruise was Split, Croatia.  The old town here was once Diocletian’s Palace. He was a Roman emperor who built the palace for his retirement. People eventually moved inside the palace walls for safety and it became the town.

When we walked in the main entrance, we were greeted by a long hallway lined on both sides with little stalls selling all kinds of jewellery, crafts, books and other things. Partway down the hall there are two more large hallways, each leading to sections of the palace that can be explored. We went exploring.

The palace was a huge honeycomb of rooms, and it was so neat to wander from one to the next.  In some rooms there were stone bathtubs or benches. Here and there, there were stone carvings and artifacts on display, that must have once been part of the decorations in the palace. Some of the rooms were closed off; it looked like the walls were starting to crumble and they were being shored up. We spent quite a bit of time exploring, and even found a couple places where the rooms opened out to a courtyard, and then back into more rooms.

Afterwards, we left the palace itself and went out into the walled town, wandered a bit and eventually came outside the walls into a huge market where there was all kinds of fruit (some of which we’d never seen before), fish and other foods for sale. Beyond the fruit stalls, there were more stalls selling clothing, purses, leather goods and other wares.

Our lunch was at a “Facebook” Cafe, a little restaurant with free wifi that advertised Facebook parties, not sure exactly what that is. After lunch we did a bit more wandering around, bought a couple souvenirs and then back to the nice cool air conditioned ship.

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