{"id":9331,"date":"2024-08-31T18:56:34","date_gmt":"2024-08-31T17:56:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/purplemeanie.co.uk\/?p=9331"},"modified":"2024-08-31T18:56:34","modified_gmt":"2024-08-31T17:56:34","slug":"day-27-trogir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purplemeanie.co.uk\/index.php\/2024\/08\/31\/day-27-trogir\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 27 – Trogir"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

First full day on the island of Ciovo and we decided to take the ferry to Trogir.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Camp Rozac to Trogir Ferry<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

We\u2019d both had a very hot and sweaty night last night. Temperatures stayed in the high 20\u2019s until around 3am, so we were both very glad of our swamp-cooler fans\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Swamp-cooler<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Water goes in the top and is evaporated into the air stream to create a cooled flow. It\u2019s not like air-con but it\u2019s slightly better than blowing warm air around. They\u2019re battery operated and last for about few hours, unless you charge while you use them, in which case they last all night. Wouldn\u2019t be without them on a trip like this!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trogir seems to have been around since the 3rd century BCE and was initially Roman and Greek influenced. It\u2019s the old town which itself sits in a small island off the mainland that we\u2019re heading to today but the whole town spans each side of the spit that runs between the mainland and Ciovo. It\u2019s known as the. Nice of Croatia, heavily influenced by Venetian architecture as they ruled over it for 400 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ferry Route from Rozac to Trogir<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The ferry, or at least the one we\u2019re 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We pitched up for the 10AM ferry\u2026 which didn\u2019t turn up. We never found out why, but we didn\u2019t want to replan the day so we hung around for the 11AM. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Waiting for the ferry<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The ferry cost \u20ac5 each way per person.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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 \u201cdriver\u201d was playing through a Bluetooth speaker from his phone. And for some unknown reason, skull and cross bone flags!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Party Boat!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Coming into Trogir Old Town<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

We\u2019d 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\u2019ve managed to pay for a subscription without being able to log in, and now we can\u2019t download any tours). Coupled to which Sue\u2019s phone is really on the blink now. The phantom power button presses are making the phone unusable and so we\u2019ve let it drain down and we\u2019ll try and get it repaired. We did try one phone shop but the said we\u2019d need to go to Zagreb for phone repairs, we may be buying Sue a new phone – but I\u2019m not at all sure we can activate it on EE while we\u2019re out of the UK.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anyway, we started with the castle\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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View of Trogir from the top of the castle<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Streets of Trogir<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

It wasn\u2019t long into the tour that Sue declared a broken flip-flop that was now going flip-flap! New phone and flip-flops required!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

First up was actually a monastery, \u20ac2 each to get in and\u2026 backwards from almost all other site seeing places, you entered, rather than leave, through the gift shop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nice cloisters though\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Trogir Monestary Cloisters<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

There were lots of signs telling how the monastery is being renovated\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Monastery Bits and Pieces Everywhere<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Next we found St Lawrence (known as Bishop John).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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St Lawrence, Trogir<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

We paid our \u20ac10 each to enter the church, and Sue had to cover her shoulders with a red gauze\/cloth they gave her\u2026 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\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Views of Trogir from St Lawrence Church<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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And one from an iPhone <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

And of course a selfie\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Selfie from St Lawrence Church Tower<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

We then sauntered back through the streets (well I was lounging around)\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A little too non-vertical me thinks!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

While Sue admired the architecture\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sue admiring the architecture<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

And headed back to the castle to catch the 3:30 ferry home again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We had a quick dip in the sea\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sue in the sea by our pitch <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Then there\u2019s the sunset from the campsite\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sunset from Camp Rozac<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Just to prove we were there! <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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\u2019ll have a cooler night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tomorrow we\u2019re getting up early to take a bike ride some way around the island before the temperature gets unbearable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

First full day on the island of Ciovo and we decided to take the ferry to Trogir. We\u2019d both had a very hot and sweaty night last night. Temperatures stayed in the high 20\u2019s until around 3am, so we were both very glad of our swamp-cooler fans\u2026 Water goes in the top and is evaporated […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9340,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[53,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2024-summer-holiday-to-greece","category-travel"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/purplemeanie.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/img_6359.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8yl38-2qv","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9381,"url":"https:\/\/purplemeanie.co.uk\/index.php\/2024\/09\/02\/day-29-trogir\/","url_meta":{"origin":9331,"position":0},"title":"Day 29 – Trogir","author":"John Martin","date":"September 2, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"A quiet day again today, though we headed into Trogir on the 8am ferry for an early mooch around and some breakfast. 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