We had a lovely yet tiring time wandering aimlessly about, stumbling into the odd wedding celebration in an open cafe courtyard or two. This little angel was showing off her pretty wings as the groom and men were singing and carousing about the square.
The famous church was closed for the Saturday afternoon as several weddings went by - all on foot as no cars in the old city, so it's a wonder no ankles were turned as six inch heels clattered along the cobbles. Everyone looked very smart and the tourist cameras just kept on clicking !! Back to Split in a week or so's time for the official guided tour.
We had left our luggage at the bus station room with a cranky lady who complained loudly in Croatian about every heavy bag she had to check in - and half expected that she would have closed up shop and stranded us with no bags just cause she could. But we ended up on the night train with only a few ticket worries and settled in to sleep only to be woken by the conductor ( with us now in PJ,s ) to try to explain why ticket says Zagreb to Split not other way around - how were we to know ..... it was written in Croatian ! Luckily our sleeper reservation was correct and I imagine we being on moving train and in pyjamas helped and very reasonable conductors just shrugged and thought " bloody foreigners " instead.
Despite the train being loud and constantly moving we slept OK ( much better than sitting up all night ) and have arrived safe in Slovenia. The trip was through beautiful forested hills and narrow farmland in a river valley- no more limestone rocks here - and hotel is very comfortable. Ljubljana is a lovely city for a Sunday stroll.
See you soon
Love Wendy and Graeme
Sounds like an interesting train trip! What were those things hanging on the door in the lane way in the first photo....coral or some sort of food?
ReplyDeleteHi. They are actually sponges - these seem to be pretty popular here - probably for your sponge bath on the yacht !!!!
ReplyDeleteAaaaah...sounds nice!!
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