We had a magnificent nocturnal navigation in the Adriatic Sea in our route to the port of Split, Croatia. Once anchored there, our guests and staff visited the impressive ruins of the Roman Emperor Diocletian’s palace and fortress. The formidable, complex structures, now surrounded by and immersed in more modern buildings with cafes, gelato, and souvenir shops, stood impassible through almost 14 centuries of convulsive existence.
Beautiful churches also abound as mute witnesses of the changes in people’s lives and creeds, from pagans to Christianity. Our guests and staff walked along narrow streets and alleys full of plants and tall limestone buildings that characterize Split.
From Split, once all of us absorbed the beauty and smells of the city, we boarded coaches to take us to Trogir, a neat nearby town. Everybody in the party experienced heavy rain while traveling on the coastal road between the mountains and the sea. In Trogir, we felt the strange sense of going back to medieval times as we passed along little castle-looking houses and small palaces with red roofs and sky-pointing chimneys.
