After a nice breakfast, a return to the green market, a last stroll through Split, we took the bus to Zadar, including a couple of taxi rides. We checked into our funky hostel, right in the middle of the old town. Near the end of this batch you can see Robert, our new tour leader, a Roman aqueduct from the bus, and our hostel room…
Robert took us on an orientation walk through Zadar‘s old town, easily navigable on a small peninsula with nice promenades on both sides. The Sea Organ and the Greeting of the Sun are two interesting public art installations there…
After our orientation walk, I returned to two places Robert had pointed out – the Muro, a bar with a great view, and the adjacent Ancient Glass Museum. See through this…
This batch includes the walk back, a great dinner, more of the Greeting of the Sun, and a sunset…
The next day we headed out to visit a Benedictine nunnery (nuns, there were none!). Really, it was to sample their wares. On the way we stopped to see a tank from the 1991 war with Serbia. And, given this position on a hill overlooking a plain, there were remnants of other cultures and other conflicts…
At the Benedictine nunnery, we first toured the farm fields, then settled in to sample their wines and rakija, with some biscuits, bread, and cheese. They also sold jams, and face cream, and flower art, but the tastings were the main act, causing most of us to have to take a long nap back at the hotel…
After that long nap, Boon & I set off to climb the adjacent tower, go back to the Muro, and explore Zadar some more before dinner. This batch is just of the bell tower…
This batch is of some interesting sites along the way, including a few characters, the Muro, and the Kapetanova Kula, another tower which featured a cultural art exhibit of Croatian sayings (see the printout for English translations) on the bottom level, and several paintings on the way up to the top…
We caught up with some of the rest of our group for a nice dinner, then a stroll into the sunset. Got a lil’ kooky with the pano feature on the bell tower on my way back to the hotel…
This last batch features just some of the pix that my fellow travelers have taken and posted on our Whatsapp group, then show up in my photo stream…
Where will we go tomorrow…?