Heading North – Dalmatian Coast

After a week-long bliss putting around the southern Dalmatian Islands we bussed north from Dubrovnik to:

SPLIT

Over 1700 years young,  this Diocletion Palace constitutes the city’s old town much of which is a walking zone.  Wonderful craftmanship meant to last:

 Top right: basement of Palace filled with garbage dropped from above rooms was in recent years partially dug up. Debris served to preserve the Palace foundation… key to the old town’s core preservation despite damage from recent years of war. 

Old town architecture. 

 Bussing up the coast. Old town sites.  Coffee or craft beer. One of each?… on the Riva promenade. 

Love the polished sandstone walkways; Bob happily sorts thru a large menu; Sentinels with attitude. 

ONWARD TO ZADAR

 Another coastal city with long (3000 years)  traumatic history: prehistoric, Illyrian, Roman, Byzantium, and Austo-Hungarian. It feels more like a true city with a mix of new and old and more locals than tourists! 

Unfortunately it was the place where one of us – Wendi – fell with resulting need for surgery. 

Clock-wise from bottom left: Wendi and Bob ready for roasted lamb from island of Pag; paying for ambulance service – or trying to (ambulance dispatch location relocated after flood a few weeks ago).  

Bob Settles into Biograd

Just down the coast from Zadar is a first class orthopedic hospital to which Wendi was transferred and surgery undergone in short order.  

Bob about to settle into his abode in Biograd – between sea and hospital…with lots of garden fruit. 

The extra day in Zadar meant that our paths once again happened to cross with our LaPaz, Mexico, friends – Carol and Charles who  with cousins were about to embark on a sail of the northern Dalmatian Islands out of Biograd! 

 Scrumptious seafood dinner with Moorheads in Zadar on last evening.

Meanwhile we await Wendi’s recovery/rehab with hope of rejoining.