JULY 28 - Though we already did this trip a few days ago, today we do it for real, as in we take our bags to a new rental. Yesterday’s relief from the heat is over, and we are back to cloudless skies and blazing sun. Spend a few hot hours at the bus station, waiting for transport that picks us up an hour late. This pretty much nixes any plan to do much in Split, as we end up arriving only about 16:00.
So what is with the city name Split? It has nothing to do with what the word means in English of course, but has always seemed strange to me. It derives from the earliest known settlement in this location, the Greek colony of Aspalathos (or Spalathos) founded in the 3rd or 2nd Century BCE. This evolved into the Italian Spalato, and the Croatian Split or Spljet. Since then, the Croatian version has become the official name.
Our rental apartment is in a non-descript building a ways out from the city center. Google maps is not able to reference any bus routes, so we take a Bolt and figure out the bus routes later. Head downtown into the tourist mobs to complete our walk through the north side of Diocletian’s Palace grounds.
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