Awe Struck

Saturday was a beach day, as we all needed a little rest. The best part of the beach day was getting a drink at a beach bar and watching Grandma boogie to the rap music! Priceless :)

Our plans for visiting Hvar were foiled by the weather. We had scheduled ourselves a little too tightly this trip, and Sunday was the day we had alloted. Unfortunately, there was a wind advisory and none of the tour boats were sailing that day. We even checked with several, just in case the first one simply didn't like the looks of us. Instead, Alex and I saw the cathedral, bell tower and baptistery in Diocletian's Palace, climbing all the way to the top of the bell tower - what a view! Google doesn't think you need to see the photos, though, since I can't seem to upload them. However, we then climbed the hill to Marjan Park and this was our reward:

Stairs. Millions of stairs on Sunday. But although we were denied a boat trip to the isalnds, we made up for it by commandeering a pirate ship Monday morning.

The owner of the boat in the front, who built it with his own two hands over a period of 10 years, working on it in his backyard in the evenings after work. It was modeled after Columbus' Santa Maria and is an exquisite piece of workmanship.

Grandma hamming it up with the crew (yes that's my finger in the pic. Shut up.)

Downtown Split - the view from the other side of the peninsula.

Returning to Diocletian's Palace by water.

After Diocletian's Palace it just couldn't get any better. But it did. I am absolutely gobsmacked over Dubrovnik!

A three hour drive from Split, in which we drove through a small section of Bosnia and Herzegovinia (bleh), and down to where the mountains meet the sea.

The Pile Gate, our entrance to the old city.

The view from the window of our apartment (I was leaning out the window, that's why it's crooked. This is the staircase that was in Game of Thrones - Alex reenacted a scene from the show:

Looking back at the mountains from the cafe yesterday evening.

I'll post more pics from Dubrovnik when I get home. Tomorrow we return to London for a day, then home on Thursday.