The Trogir Riveria
As usual, Tom awoke first. He set off in the warm morning air to find coffee and pastries as an alternative to the 5€, not included breakfast. The town was much quieter at 8:30am than 12 hours earlier and in those quiet hours the quaintness really comes through.
At the local market, Tom found coffee to take away and an assortment of pastries and by 9:30 was back at the balcony, thankfully shaded from the early morning heat.
Around 10:30, we all went out to explore the town and plan our next few days. We had planned to visit Split and Diocletian Palace built 300AD as the summer home of the Roman Cesar of the same name. However, we discovered a direct Trogir-Split ferry that would allow us to visit Split for 6 hours in route to Vis, so we decide to join the throngs and go to the pebbly beaches nearby.
After consulting our super friendly hosts, we decided to skip the nearby uber-popular beach and drove across the island to a more local beach dominated by an open air restaurant. We had a late lunch around 2pm and proceeded to enjoy a few hours splashing in the Adriatic and sitting in the shade of the occasional tree.
About 7pm, we drove the 15 minutes back to our hotel to shower and change while Sue drove 15 minutes to the Split airport and return the rental car we had picked up in Ljubljanska 10 days earlier. By 8pm, she was back and by 9pm we were once again walking across the bridge into town.
We decided to try the top rated Restaurant Kristian for pizza. As expected it had a 20 minute wait for a table and Tom waited while Sue and the kids strolled the town. Once again we found ourselves eating at 10pm and suffering through the kids hunger fueled mayhem.
Thankfully, the food came quickly and it was as delicious as promised and for the whole 90 minutes we were at the restaurant the line never died down.
Fed and happy, we wandered home and everyone was snug in bed by midnight. Another nice day on the coast.