First full day on the island of Ciovo and we decided to take the ferry to Trogir.
We’d both had a very hot and sweaty night last night. Temperatures stayed in the high 20’s until around 3am, so we were both very glad of our swamp-cooler fans…
Water goes in the top and is evaporated into the air stream to create a cooled flow. It’s not like air-con but it’s slightly better than blowing warm air around. They’re battery operated and last for about few hours, unless you charge while you use them, in which case they last all night. Wouldn’t be without them on a trip like this!
Trogir seems to have been around since the 3rd century BCE and was initially Roman and Greek influenced. It’s the old town which itself sits in a small island off the mainland that we’re heading to today but the whole town spans each side of the spit that runs between the mainland and Ciovo. It’s known as the. Nice of Croatia, heavily influenced by Venetian architecture as they ruled over it for 400 years.
The ferry, or at least the one we’re taking, runs from just outside the campsite, about 50m from our pitch and deposits you directly outside the castle. Ferries run from 8AM until 11PM. On the hour from Camp Rozac and on the half hour back from the castle.
We pitched up for the 10AM ferry… which didn’t turn up. We never found out why, but we didn’t want to replan the day so we hung around for the 11AM.
The ferry cost €5 each way per person.
The ferry takes you past a bunch of docks and dry docks with all sorts being worked on, including a few gin palaces. Bur also worthy of note was the euro-pop the “driver” was playing through a Bluetooth speaker from his phone. And for some unknown reason, skull and cross bone flags!
We’d hoped that we were going to use the GPSmyCity app to take us on a guided tour of the town, but the app seems a bit hopeless (we’ve managed to pay for a subscription without being able to log in, and now we can’t download any tours). Coupled to which Sue’s phone is really on the blink now. The phantom power button presses are making the phone unusable and so we’ve let it drain down and we’ll try and get it repaired. We did try one phone shop but the said we’d need to go to Zagreb for phone repairs, we may be buying Sue a new phone – but I’m not at all sure we can activate it on EE while we’re out of the UK.
Anyway, we started with the castle…
After the castle we had a not-stand-up and a coffee/ice-tea/coke and then wandered around the streets, finding a couple of churches on the way.
It wasn’t long into the tour that Sue declared a broken flip-flop that was now going flip-flap! New phone and flip-flops required!
First up was actually a monastery, €2 each to get in and… backwards from almost all other site seeing places, you entered, rather than leave, through the gift shop.
Nice cloisters though…
There were lots of signs telling how the monastery is being renovated…
Next we found St Lawrence (known as Bishop John).
We paid our €10 each to enter the church, and Sue had to cover her shoulders with a red gauze/cloth they gave her… strictly no shoulders allowed. The church is like many churches, but included in your entrance fee, they let you climb to the top of the tower, with spectacular views of the town…
And of course a selfie…
We then sauntered back through the streets (well I was lounging around)…
While Sue admired the architecture…
And headed back to the castle to catch the 3:30 ferry home again.
We had a quick dip in the sea…
Then there’s the sunset from the campsite…
And settled down to another sweltering evening. Though to be fair, while it was hot, the clouds had come in and taken the edge off things. Hopefully we’ll have a cooler night.
Tomorrow we’re getting up early to take a bike ride some way around the island before the temperature gets unbearable.
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