It is hard for me to say anything new about Split. Except for during Covid times I have been coming here every year for 6 or 7 .. and among these pages have posted a number of descriptive blog reports.

If you ever decide to come here, and I encourage you to, there are a number of delightful cities here on the wonderful Croation coast. Plenty of sunshine. Great real food. Nice people. Great public transport.

Marriott recently opened their first hotel in Split and so I had to try it out. An “AC” brand, one of my least favorite, but interesting .. in the new highest building in Split.

They put me in a great room on the 22nd floor.

But for me the hotel was not so great. AC brands are simple hotels market positioned for business people with cars. And this one proved to be so .. out on the edge of town in a nothing neighborhood. I could walk to the center and that was OK .. but it was not so OK to do over and over. And although busses run everywhere I only took a few.

Also, Split continues to grow. More population, more roads, more traffic and congestion. Staying in the old town off season is my recommendation.

Split has for a long time been discovered by tourists, who come not just for the ambiance but to visit the old Venician town and the remains of the fortress of Diocletian.

This is a special area and of course a world heritage site.

Year over year it continues to be restored, tartified, upscaled .. and become ever more pricey.

But if you venture outside of the tourist area there is still plenty of the real local Split to be found.

As you know, one of the prime attractions of this part of the globe for me .. beyond the weather and the friendly people (if you are in a crosswalk all of the traffic stops for you) .. is the wonderful food, and in particular the fish. Like this little lunch down at the fish market.

Or this little Sea bass. Which by the way are getting expensive. This would be 25 euros downtown. I took a bus out to the suburbs and had this one for 12.

Well, as I said I don’t have much new to say about Split .. but again, there are far more informative reports on this excellent destination among these blog pages, if you are interested.

I am now moving up the coast out of the hustle and bustle of the big city to little Sibenik, and will report in from there.

Thanks for coming along.