When I arrived in Split, I had not read anything about it, so I was expecting a basic, boring beach town. Kind of like Destin, Florida, where I have spent (too) many summers. Yeah, beaches, pretty, ok. Yeah, surf shops, woo hoo. This was the reason I almost didn't visit the coast of Croatia at all. But eventually, with a heat wave following me across the continent I decided that if I had to be hot, I may as well be hot on a pretty beach.
Welcome to Split!
If you didn't know better you might think you were in the ruins of Rome or Greece as you walked through the old palace at night. What I loved the most was that you don't have to pay anything to go inside. You don't need a tour guide. No, you just walk in. And inside are all sorts of cafes and tent markets so you can go shopping between crumbled pillars and dine next to ancient fountains with towers rising up behind you. It is simply amazing. Amazing and beautiful. And that's not even taking the beaches into account...
I will confess, I am a horrible beach bunny. I stayed at this one beach the entire time I was in Split. I knew there were others nearby but I couldn't pull myself away from the Ježinac beach with it's large boulders, brilliant water (there's no photo manipulation there, that is exactly how the water looked) and its lack of nasty sand. I love pebble beaches and this was the best. I wish I could be lying on that beach right now instead of shivering in my sweater in Northern Ireland!
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