Our last three stops were Split and Rovinj in Croatia, and then we disembarked in Venice (sadly).
We had been to Split last year on our honeymoon so knew it quite well. We booked a tour which took us to the old city, Ivan Meštrović’s old home and museum (famous sculptor from the area), and then on a boat up a nearby river for lunch and return by bus.
Split’s claim to fame is Roman emperor Diocletian’s palace he had built here – prior to that people lived in a different city nearby. It was built in the 4th century, and some of it is still standing. The walls of the palace delineate the old, medieval, part of town and it is fun to walk through.
On this day Split was having its market day:
The next day we anchored at Rovinj, Croatia in the north near the border with Slovenia and Italy. This is a pretty, fortified town with (as usual around this part of the world) Venetian influence:
Then, sadly, the next day we disembarked in Venice. We had also been here last year on our honeymoon, but Venice is always worth a visit:
I just love the uniforms in Italy – for construction workers, airport baggage handlers and so on. But the Venetian garbagemen have the best uniforms of all!:
It was very hot in Venice – unusually so we were told. Nice to have a hotel right in town in circumstances like these. We stayed at the Hotel Danieli which is wonderful and wonderfully located near Piazza San Marco.
Venice provided a nice ending to a great cruise!