Where we're going...
Google Earth map of our vacay
I created a Google Earth "fly over" to help you visualize all the places where we will stay and make excursions to. Click this link here to access the flyover.
Monday, July 4-Thursday, July 7: Bus station in Split, island tour of Trogir, a night at the hospital in Split, and an awesome tour in Trogir
Monday, July 4 After Plitvice, we made our way to Split to pick up our friend Carol Lilly who had been doing research for her book in Beograd , Sarajevo , and Mostar . She took a bus from Mostar that was to arrive in Split around 2:00pm, but nothing really goes as planned especially in Bosnia-Hercegovina. Having parked the car about a quarter mile from the bus station, Steven--now hobbling miserably on bloody feet--and I walked about in the Diocletian Palace section of town near the water. Diocletian was Roman emperor from 285 to 305 CE. He was born in Dalmatia not far from here and built a palace retreat in Split. If you know anything about him, it's usually about his persecution of Christians. Weirdly, just 15 years later, his successor Constantine (of Constantinople fame) would legalize Christianity, setting Rome on the trajectory to become one of several patriarchates and later the seat of Roman Catholicism. Anyway, the palace in Split is fully integrated int...
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